This is absolutley true! See if you can work out the puzzle!

[Dave Payn]

Powergen have set up a branch in Italy. Can any cunning linguists out there guess what it's called? Once you've worked that out, can you guess why their marketing director is currently out of a job?

If you don't believe me, try looking for it on the web. It's there....

 

[Keppler]

why it's the absolutely genuine http://www.powergenitalia.com/

oh dear..

 

[Dave Payn]

Come on Keppler, revealing the answer was a bit 'below the belt'..... ;-)

 

[PeterBale]

Come on Keppler, revealing the answer was a bit 'below the belt'..... ;-)

Well, it was on here a while back :!: :wink: :lol:

 

[Dave Payn]

Ah! Oh well. Never mind! I stand 'sussed'! ;-)

 

[MoominDave]

http://www.themouthpiece.com/viewtopic.php?t=1620

 

[bruceg]

While that one is fairly in your face, as it were, the company I work for (Agilent Technologies) paid good money to come up with the name Agilent when we split from Hewlett-Packard only to have folk point out within 5 minutes of the name being revealed that it's an anagram of Genital

 

[rutty]

While that one is fairly in your face, as it were, the company I work for (Agilent Technologies) paid good money to come up with the name Agilent when we split from Hewlett-Packard only to have folk point out within 5 minutes of the name being revealed that it's an anagram of Genital

Agilent? We use your test sets!

 

[bruceg]

Agilent? We use your test sets!

I bet you never look at them in the same way again

Personally, I'm on the mobile network monitoring side of things looking at GPRS and 3G stuff but it's all cash for the bottom line as far as I'm concerned - keep on buying

 

[rutty]

Agilent? We use your test sets!

I bet you never look at them in the same way again

Personally, I'm on the mobile network monitoring side of things looking at GPRS and 3G stuff but it's all cash for the bottom line as far as I'm concerned - keep on buying

I didn't say they were any good

I work with the big stuff in the middle of the networks - SDH and Photonics with a bit of Gigabit Ethernet to keep it interesting. I try not to go outside much, seeing as we have such a healthy glow off all our kit inside a nice air-conditioned lab

 

[super_sop]

While that one is fairly in your face, as it were, the company I work for (Agilent Technologies) paid good money to come up with the name Agilent when we split from Hewlett-Packard only to have folk point out within 5 minutes of the name being revealed that it's an anagram of Genital

Agilent? We use your test sets!

And I calibrate some of your tools!!!

 

[Rambo Chick]

HAHAHA!! that is hilarious.

although i'm slightly worried as it is a tendancy of this country to adapt the european names...jif to cif etc.

will this follow suit perhaps.....? :lol:

carolyn

flugel utd co-op yorks.

 

[rutty]

In a similar vein, I work for a company that used to be called GPT. The French found that quite funny, because they would pronounce it so it sounds like "Je Pe Tay" or similar, and that sounds almost exactly the same as the French for "I fart".

I thank you

 

[bruceg]

Now that's funny

 

[bruceg]

While that one is fairly in your face, as it were, the company I work for (Agilent Technologies) paid good money to come up with the name Agilent when we split from Hewlett-Packard only to have folk point out within 5 minutes of the name being revealed that it's an anagram of Genital

Agilent? We use your test sets!

And I calibrate some of your tools!!!

Oo-er missus!!! I can see this getting pulled before too long

 

[bruceg]

In a similar vein, I work for a company that used to be called GPT. The French found that quite funny, because they would pronounce it so it sounds like "Je Pe Tay" or similar, and that sounds almost exactly the same as the French for "I fart".

I thank you

Not a company name this one but a mis-pronunciation in French perpetrated by a friend of mine. All French herein will be phonetic - it's the best I can do

He was at a checkout in a supermarket when he dropped a bottle of fizzy drink. It burst and he sprayed the girl in front. He did the honourable thing and ran away. When telling the story to some French colleagues later he tried to say that he panicked - "Je paneeky" but they heard "Je pa neeky" which they found hilarious. Apparently it means "I didn't shag her"