No Snickering: That Road Sign Means Something Else
The “Butt” in this road, in South Yorkshire, probably refers to a container for collecting water.We recently found this in the Europe edition of The New York Times… No Snickering: That Road Sign Means Something Else By SARAH LYALLPublished: January 22, 2009CRAPSTONE, England — When ordering things by telephone, Stewart Pearce tends to take a [...]
Beaner's Coffee House takes the heat and changes name
We’re naming a coffee company this week, and I came across this article about an unfortunate name. Yikes! Changing coffee house’s name was ‘right thing to do,’ says Biggby CEO Posted by Erin Albanese | The Grand Rapids Press June 26, 2008 22:02PM GRAND RAPIDS — Biggby Coffee CEO and co-founder Bob Fish chalks up [...]
Vote For the Worst Brand Name of 2008
All year long we compile the biggest brand name “Head Scratchers” in our blog. Now you can vote for the worst one and help induct it into the Eat My Words Name Shame Hall of Fame. Based on criteria from the Eat My Words SMILE & SCRATCH name evaluation test, here are what we consider [...]
Bad to the Xohm
One of our favorite really really bad names and contender for 2008′s Eat My Words Name Shame Hall of Fame, XOHM, has met an early death. We previously ranted about this abomination as being wrong in so many many ways back in March and our opinion has not improved. The merger with Clearwire has provided [...]