ain't no Houellebecq girl ([info]yiskah) wrote,
@ 2009-01-23 13:44:00
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Does it make me childish that I always snigger to myself when opening post from one of our contractors, whose company is called Cumloaden?

I also just misread "Petersburn" as "Petersbum".

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[info]dr_f_dellamorte
2009-01-23 01:46 pm UTC (link)
Undoubtedly! However, I would also find this utterly hilarious.

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[info]yiskah
2009-01-23 02:34 pm UTC (link)
I am not alone!

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[info]dr_f_dellamorte
2009-01-23 02:35 pm UTC (link)
I am in yr head, sniggering at yr company names.

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[info]braisedbywolves
2009-01-23 01:47 pm UTC (link)
A specialised form of carbo-loading!

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[info]yiskah
2009-01-23 02:34 pm UTC (link)
For all your protein needs!

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[info]forthwritten
2009-01-23 02:05 pm UTC (link)
Of course it does, but I am with you in childish sniggering. I mean, who thinks "oh yes, Cumloaden, that gives my company an aura of respectability"?

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[info]yiskah
2009-01-23 02:31 pm UTC (link)
I think it may be the name of a place, but stil...

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[info]forthwritten
2009-01-23 02:32 pm UTC (link)
I am scared to google lest the university think I'm a pervert.

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[info]yiskah
2009-01-23 02:33 pm UTC (link)
I did just goodle, and got disappointingly few results! I will have to check the company name when I next see it, to check whether I got it right. I'll be very disappointed if I find I've been misreading it for ages.

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[info]forthwritten
2009-01-23 02:40 pm UTC (link)
If you've been reading it wrong for ages, I think this says A LOT about you. A LOT.

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[info]yiskah
2009-01-23 02:51 pm UTC (link)
I think that you are right. :(

I am quite pleased with my invention of the word "goodle", though.

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[info]moose_noise
2009-01-23 02:13 pm UTC (link)
Koç Holding is Turkey's largest industrial conglomerate. But you knew that, of course.

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[info]yiskah
2009-01-23 02:23 pm UTC (link)
Turkey also has a chain of petrol stations in Anatolia called "Niggaz".

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[info]webofevil
2009-01-23 02:16 pm UTC (link)
Sadly for us, if not for them, the sheep-shearing centre in Cumbria that used to distribute leaflets around the Lake District enticing people to visit (“Come in and see us! The best cup of tea on the M6!”, or whatever motorway it was, and it honestly included the line, “You don’t even have to go and see the sheep!”) has changed its name in recent years from the frankly amazing CumWest. My friend unfortunately lost the leaflet in question so these days no one believes us, but I saw this with my own eyes.

And if it’s the indefensibly puerile you’re after, there’s always this.

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[info]yiskah
2009-01-23 02:33 pm UTC (link)
I believe you! Mostly because I want to believe you, mind. I imagine Cumbria must be filled with similarly unfortunate abbreviations and neologisms.

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[info]mollydot
2009-01-23 10:24 pm UTC (link)
CumWest in the open air
CumWest where the skies are blue
CumWest this is what we're gonna do

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[info]sensational
2009-01-23 02:19 pm UTC (link)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/world/europe/23crapstone.html?_r=1

And I totally laughed when I read "Cumloaden."

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[info]yiskah
2009-01-23 02:30 pm UTC (link)
Ha! When I worked in Sheffield I always used to see buses marked for Penistone. It made it even funnier that there was a place nearby called Wombwell.

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[info]whatsagirlgotta
2009-01-23 02:43 pm UTC (link)
I was going through my supplier contacts today, tidying up loose ends and came across and email from a Ms Sitole - you can guess how I read that...

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[info]yiskah
2009-01-23 02:52 pm UTC (link)
Back when I worked at UK Work Permits, there was a list passed round the office of entertaining names that people had encountered, and there were quick a few Shittos on there! I think my favourite was a man called Jean-Gustave Gateau-Anchovey, though.

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[info]whatsagirlgotta
2009-01-23 03:00 pm UTC (link)
Ooh lovely, there was a guy mentioned in training for a certain company I was employed by in the part about not laughing at people's names - Ramjam Delilah Funky Boogaloo - he once called and I answered....

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[info]yiskah
2009-01-23 03:02 pm UTC (link)
Dude, I know him! Well, not exactly, but he used to fence with my ex, Mark.

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[info]whatsagirlgotta
2009-01-23 03:04 pm UTC (link)
For serious? Dude, sh1t me not!

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[info]yiskah
2009-01-23 03:09 pm UTC (link)
For serious! I knew the name sounded familiar, so I googled and came up with a reference to fencing, and it all came back. I think pretty much all fencers in the UK know each other...

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[info]whatsagirlgotta
2009-01-23 03:26 pm UTC (link)
OMG! How bizare.

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[info]metalwheaties
2009-01-23 06:19 pm UTC (link)
Sounds like our little Jess needs to spend some Quality Time with Tom.

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[info]congogirl
2009-01-26 08:42 pm UTC (link)
* snerk *

I am apparently also 12.

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