Well, it was on here a while back :!: :wink: :lol:Dave Payn said:Come on Keppler, revealing the answer was a bit 'below the belt'..... ;-)
bruceg said: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 said:Agilent? We use your test sets!![]()
I didn't say they were any goodbruceg said:rutty said: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![]()
And I calibrate some of your tools!!!rutty said:bruceg said: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!![]()
super_sop said:And I calibrate some of your tools!!!rutty said:bruceg said: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!![]()
rutty said: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![]()