@@thrawn3236 Did you go in? If so, was the food shitty? Was the atmosphere a bit crappy? Did it piss you off? Okay. I'm done now. Don't forget to light a match.
I was engaged to a plumber. I can confirm that those who work in plumbing, irrigation, general contracting enjoy their impure thoughts very much! Example. Some plumber long ago decided to name the float inside the toilet tank. Did they name it "tank float"? Of course not! The part is called a "ball cock". In the 1960s, my dad wrote that down for Mom so she could get the part at Sears to fix our toilet. I was little and with her on that shopping trip. Dad's handwriting was bad, so my poor, sweet Mom went to the hardware counter and requested a "Bull Cock".😖
The Free University of Amsterdam once planned on selling a product called the Free University Compiler Kit, but went with the Amsterdam Compiler Kit for acronymical reasons.
This is like Seattle's South Lake Union Trolly, which rebranded to SLU Streetcar AFTER the reaction after their grand opening, whoops. People still wear "I ride the SLUT" tshirts in Seattle.
@@BogdanTestsSoftware it's very likely, especially considering the SA sense of humour. English is only one of 11 official languages, so we know which one the thieves belong to😆.
@@sainjawoof3506and all it would take to keep that sign filthy permanently would be to have the multi lingual English speakers teach a few of their non English speaking buddies which letter to pop off and explain why😂! They won't be able to keep that letter M for love or money!
What always gets me about these signs and such like is that there were meetings about them. People sat down and had serious talks and finalized these designs.😂
In the Netherlands, we have a Catholic University in the town of Tilbug. In short it would have been K.U.T. Luckily, they were aware of it 😅 The short in Dutch means the female genital ( swearing)😅
My mother's maiden name was Cummings and when my daughter tried to use it in an authentication deal on a website she was informed that inappropriate words couldn't be used. Up until that moment it has never occurred to me. It was a family name!
I couldn't see the G or the R and got Noble Ape and thought it was something about us being evolved from apes... How wrong I was, clearly we never evolved 😂
I love graphic design fails, as a professional graphic designer for my day job. Brand design is one of my favorite crestive projects, but you would be surprised how many times you miss something because of proximity blindness! That's why test groups are a thing, because the more eyes you have on something and the more those eyes are diverse, the less likely it is that something like these slips through. But a lot of times, the CLIENT is actually the one forcing stupid designs through, refusing to listen to the expert they hired. And then they get embarrassed at their ineptitude, so they pretend it's not there
Yep. It's especially fun when they insist on a logo design style that we were taught to avoid like the plague and refuse to accept a better alternative that can actually be read clearly.
I've been drawing all my life, even did some commissions for folks, like drawing their OCs. So, I finally gave into the pressure to go to school for graphic design. It was... enlightening. Turns out, while I'm really good at most technical aspects, I kinda suck at coming up with ideas for projects I'm not personally invested in. I also suck *worse* at dealing with customers, as I discovered when my brother-in-law commissioned me to make a brochure. Absolutely *hated* trying to explain why something wasn't a good idea to someone who couldn't even resize images evenly or *notice that the proportions were off.* The constant reworks drove me nuts, too. So I have a degree but there's no way in *hell* I'm making that a career.
Probably my favourite example of that was Linus Bowman who showed the logo he made for some local comedy club and literally everyone in the comment section could only see it as a strip club logo.
We used to have some hospitals with odd names/initials. University General Hospital (yes, they actually put UGH on the sign!), and Dedman medical center (which finally changed its name after years.)😂😂😂
OMG. the first one reminds me of when I had to stay in a homeless shelter named City union mission, and they wanted to make sure you could tell they're stuff from your own so they would write they're initials on everything. This was a family shelter so they had basically like separate motel rooms with padlocks on the door for full families. Well I'll never forget walking in the bathroom and yelling that there was C.U.M already on my towel to my husband. So of course He starts freaking out, and trying not to give it away I went on about how there was C.U.M. on all our sheets and even our pillow😂😂😂 We weren't the only ones to realize they had an unfortunate abbreviation, it was a running joke to ask anyone new if they'd found C.U.M. on they're pillow yet😂😂😂😂 I couldn't even make this up. we're all going to hell😆
That's fantastic -- I'm sure it was unintentional at first (someone was so used to the name of the organization that that's all they saw when they wrote out its initials) but it's great that they kept it even after the "problem" was pointed out to them: what a simple, innocent way to hopefully give someone a smile!
Fun story about the name of the radio station for the University of North Texas: On this side of the Mississippi, we begin our radio stations with the letter 'K' Naturally, the University followed that 'K' with the most logical iteration of letters to represent the name of the University: 'UNT' This meant the first broadcast went out from "KUNT Radio!" Needless to say, it was quickly changed as the students went from saying the letters to the single syllable word in the first breath of that first broadcast.
Reminds me of college orientation. A bunch of representatives from the various campus organizations came up to talk about student life and getting assistance for things. Then the poor kid they selected from the campus security force came up to talk about safety and that they "offer an escort service." The entire *room* erupted in howls and catcalls as the kid visibly tried to will the floor to swallow him. "Not that kind!"
I was gonna mention this! I lived in Fort Worth around that time, and it was a very satisfying joke, especially since it was a pretty cool college radio station that we actually listened to.
As a graphic designer, these are great! I take great pride in knowing that they think our jobs are so easy, they could do it themselves and disaster awaits.
I'm a designer, and some are made by someone internal with a bit of whatever skills, and some are made by actual designers who weren't payed enough / had c**k on their mind but nobody noticed it bc everyone has c**k on their mind 😂
When Newcastle Polytechnic became a university they considered several naming options. One suggestion was "Central University of Newcastle upon Tyne". Fortunately (or sadly, depending on your point of view) at some point someone considered the obvious acronym and that option wasn't the one chosen.
So that last one reminded me of the senior prank that was pulled my sophomore year. They took two letters off all the signage so "waseca high school" became "was a high school"
The first one is in Spanish. "Centro Universitario Metropolitano" is where the Medical Sciences department is for the Universidad San Carlos de Guatemala.
These signs are usually the products of college educated graphic arts and marketing students and graduates, and there were at least 2 or 3 meetings about the final product.
Omg I love your videos. I live in Chicago and I saw the nobel grape sign yesterday and was going to send it in to you and as I was thinking about that and watching this short, it popped up! I love that you're always 5 steps ahead of me 😂
Oh, it's in Portuguese, the translation of the text says "Brazilian Cinematheque" (if the translation of the second word is bad, blame Google; but it's basically a library for movies).
The Noble Grape is in Chicago next to a club I used to go to and it took me a few minutes while waiting in line before I finally figured out that it said - I swear the G is harder to see IRL.
I take that statement about being an employee and not getting paid to the heart. We were told about 6 weeks ago that our raises will not be given out until... Oct. And that feels like a huge maybe. I work for a MULTI-BILLION $$ company.
Always. Always show a kid first then put the design away for a week then look at it again before approving designs. Just remove those been looked at too many designs for too long blind spots. Write it into the contract if needed. Lord some of these are 😂
As a professional designer I will admit if we dislike the customer sometimes we do it on purpose. Sometimes the customer requests it cause they also have a the sense of humor of a thirteen year old. Sometimes it is completely unintentional ( I have done that a few times) which is why I Always run my designs by multiple people to see if there is an unintentional design flaw.
Pulled into a gas station once and saw a vehicle for a plastering company with the saying "We get you plastered!" on the front. On the back it said Erection Specialists and below that, IN QUOTES- "We Get It Up". They knew what they were doing 😂😂😂😂
My high school has always had a myriad of Craps, Crapps, Butt, Butts, and Butte (said the same as previous). I did not grow up in a large town, yet the last names were very creative. I often wonder if they were a part of the settling history of the city I grew up in.😂
My home town had a family named Goodnight. They owned a bonding company. A local church had a minister exchange with a pastor from England. He and his wife arrived. Looking around town they saw this business less than a block from the church, and wondered just what had they gotten themselves into. The company sign read "Goodnight Bonding." 😁 It was the subject of his first sermon.
I created my own name and chose my own logo for my business. The logo is a stylized Crescent moon and the name starts with Silver Moon. I've had a few people walk by my banner or look at my business card and do a double take, thinking it says "Sailor Moon". All were 90s kids, like me, or younger lol, but at least I designed my own so I know there are no real issues.
I have said before, I am a retired printer and I know graphic designers and artists and they look a things like this as a challenge to see what they can get away with. And if the customer catches something the graphic designers just say "oh sorry, I didn't see it that way, I will redo it".
Here in Poland I saw the name "Assman" and they were giving financial advice. This was a sign in Gora Kalwaria many years ago now. I laughed the first time I saw it.
Near where i live in a city known as Frankston, an aquatics centre was built a few years ago. They were going to call it Frankston Aquatic Recreation Centre or FARC, until someone pointed out the problem of saying the acronym out loud. They fortunately decided on "Peninsula Aquatic Recreation Centre" or PARC instead.
the “noble grape” sign is so funny cause it can actually be read wrong two ways! how do I know?? I read “noble grope” and didn’t even see the “noble rape” until you mentioned it! XD the “a” in “grape” is just not different enough from the “o” right above it…
This is relevant to the bad logo's theme: When I was younger n was planning out a book multiverse for myself (still hasn't actually come into being so I won't be supplying many details), I decided I wanted to make a title for it all. Like how the MCU is the Marvel Cinematic Universe or DCEU is the DC Extended Universe. At the time, my starting story was titled Fallen Love (it was a pun on a character thing) so I thought, lets work with that. Fallen Universe. Then I shortened it, 😊. I decided it was absolutely perfect n I would have to find a way to keep that name as the final universe name for the sake of keeping the initials as they were. I decided later on that the universe should have a far more unique name, especially after Fallen Love became one of the later stories i'd be telling rather than the first. But I miss the idea of ppl talking about my world they way ppl talk about the MCU. Example of what a convo might've looked like: Reader: I'm gettin really into this book series. There's so many characters and so much going on. Friend: oh? What's the series called? Reader: well the series is one of many in this collective universe. God, I love the FU so much. Friend: the WHAT? Reader: 😅 It would get someone to google the series even if they're generally uninterested at first. But sadly, the first initial of the universe starts with an E now so the FU can no longer be used 😢. Now if only I could make myself write the first damn book already.
OMG, this is funny as hell! 😂 How naive and stupid can these people be?!🤔😆😅 I especially started busting out laughing when you got to the supposed camera.😂
Fair credit to Hippie for bringing to the fore just how frequently the male genitalia is [mis]used for marketing purposes. It's considerably higher than we might expect. And of course we're all titillated.
There was a landscaping company named Doody where I lived as a teenager. I remember asking a guy who came into my work one time, "So, you work for Doody?" The moment I said it, I started laughing and realized how bad the company name was.
We have sliding scale transport called SCAT It's two counties and Area Transportation. I used them during my internship. It's nice, but the name always gave me a chuckle.
Anyone else have "badcock and more"!?(furniture store, no idea if its local or not tho lol) My daughters BFF has been trying to break up w her bf all year and says hes SO bad in bed! We drove by "Badcock and More" and my daughter snapped a pic and sent it to her saying, "You didnt tell me Miles had his own business!"😃😂
So in my area there's a company called "Woodcock" that's been around since 1955 and a nutrition store called stand out nutrition, bit the S is a big swoop across half their sign and the top and bottom are cut off and the rest of the first word is at the top of the sign, so it looks like it says Tand out nutrition. It took my fiance and I a good 2 minutes to realize the swoop in the sign was an S
Here in Western Australia we used to have the Curtin Institute of New Technology, and then they became Curtin University. There’s a rumour that they had printed jumpers before they realised that they needed to change the New Technology part now that they were a university.
I understand why Cummins used his own name for his business. Another Cummins makes the best Diesel engines in use in industrial machines, and I would piggy back off that, too. If my family name was Cummins. Unfortunately, it's not.
Back in the 80s when English was clear way cooler than plain old Finnish (but not that many really spoke fluent English in Finland) the Cumulus chain of hotels had customer loyalty program called "CUM club". I'm not absolutely sure how long in it run until it was renamed, but the ads and member cards were spotted in the wild. ...but better than certain brand introducing a bicycle model called "White Power" - because the frame was painted in white and POWER sounds cool.
I dunno, I'll probably remember Cummins Irrigation for a long time. And lets not forget about the (German?) bearing company with the three-letter name I can't type here. They used to have a plant outside of Jopin, and there was a huge sign with 8ft tall letters. Always good for a chuckle.
I think you are mistaken. I believe the advertising agency ONLY hires thirteen year old boys. And they are having a ball! 😂😂😂😂
You said ball. Huh-huh.
@@quadeadzoneFound one of the thirteen year-olds. Get back to work! These logos won't ruin themselves!
@@quadeadzone Ball. 😂😂😂!!!1!!
I think they’re having two…
Or two balls
Locally we have FAPS, or Fayetteville Animal Protective Services. I loose my shit every time I drive past their giant sign 😂
You really need to send this lady a picture of it.
My Favorite was my local Outback Steakhouse had the Words Back and steak burn out.
I live in Ireland, and I've once seen a FAP sign at a public park. It stood for Fire Assembly Point 🤦♂️
@@thrawn3236 Did you go in? If so, was the food shitty? Was the atmosphere a bit crappy? Did it piss you off?
Okay. I'm done now.
Don't forget to light a match.
@@HeartlesSv420 This was about 6 years or more ago. They had not been using frozen everything yet.
The Cummins one is on purpose. Bet. 😂
I was engaged to a plumber. I can confirm that those who work in plumbing, irrigation, general contracting enjoy their impure thoughts very much!
Example. Some plumber long ago decided to name the float inside the toilet tank. Did they name it "tank float"? Of course not! The part is called a "ball cock".
In the 1960s, my dad wrote that down for Mom so she could get the part at Sears to fix our toilet. I was little and with her on that shopping trip. Dad's handwriting was bad, so my poor, sweet Mom went to the hardware counter and requested a "Bull Cock".😖
@@LazyIRanchwish I was there for that one 😂
Absolutely. The spurt over the "i" drove it home.
I would have done the same thing 😂
The splash proves it
The Free University of Amsterdam once planned on selling a product called the Free University Compiler Kit, but went with the Amsterdam Compiler Kit for acronymical reasons.
When the chancellor stops giving a f-...
They were like FU...CK? ...ACK! ACK ACK!
@@lashadi1445lmao pretty much
@@lashadi1445 Just wanted you to know that at least one person appreciated your entire joke.
This is like Seattle's South Lake Union Trolly, which rebranded to SLU Streetcar AFTER the reaction after their grand opening, whoops. People still wear "I ride the SLUT" tshirts in Seattle.
The sign with the whale is supposed to say HERMANUS, it's a town in South Africa 🇿🇦.
Someone must have removed the M on purpose. And it's clear they'd do it again
@@BogdanTestsSoftware it's very likely, especially considering the SA sense of humour. English is only one of 11 official languages, so we know which one the thieves belong to😆.
Thank you, I was wondering about that. 😂
Was just about to come and mention the town name. You beat me to it
@@sainjawoof3506and all it would take to keep that sign filthy permanently would be to have the multi lingual English speakers teach a few of their non English speaking buddies which letter to pop off and explain why😂! They won't be able to keep that letter M for love or money!
"Wanna meet for a coffee at the "Noble & R*pe?... No? That's fine, me neither, let's go somewhere else that sound's safer..."
Right?!
Yeah, most of these are funny, but that one..
😬
The round O's for a grape were right there!?! How did they miss that?
@@refashionedhippie Uhh idk about you but there is absolutely nothing “noble” about r_pe, way to think it through fellas 🤦♂️ #businesssignfails
Never trust a man who asks you to go on a coffee date that takes place there.
What always gets me about these signs and such like is that there were meetings about them. People sat down and had serious talks and finalized these designs.😂
And then paid people!
@@refashionedhippie or didn't pay enough
In the Netherlands, we have a Catholic University in the town of Tilbug. In short it would have been K.U.T. Luckily, they were aware of it 😅
The short in Dutch means the female genital ( swearing)😅
Reminds me of the WKUK (Whitest Kids U Know) video The Grapist. For context, it's supposed to be a commercial for a grape flavored drink.
@@janvanleeuwen2535 There are coffee mugs for UNT (University of North Texas). The handle forms the C...
My brother studied at Central Luzon Institute of Technology.
They've since referred to themselves as CelTech.
they seem to have renamed themselves that is hILARIOUS
Have men been able to find it since the name change?
@@lisafish1449😂 dude
Well, previous nickname would keep a lot of guys from finding it . ..
😂
My mother's maiden name was Cummings and when my daughter tried to use it in an authentication deal on a website she was informed that inappropriate words couldn't be used. Up until that moment it has never occurred to me. It was a family name!
I told a coworker your “13 yr old boy” on staff comment and she wholeheartedly agreed; it would save so much trouble.
I read it as noble grope. But it got worse once I realized
That's pretty bad too.
I couldn't see the 'r' but I did see the 'g' so I got "noble gape"
I couldn't see the G or the R and got Noble Ape and thought it was something about us being evolved from apes... How wrong I was, clearly we never evolved 😂
I read it as noble & rope. That would be a pretty niche business, little outdated.
I couldn´t see anything wrong with it!! Just saw it as "Noble grape"!
I love graphic design fails, as a professional graphic designer for my day job. Brand design is one of my favorite crestive projects, but you would be surprised how many times you miss something because of proximity blindness! That's why test groups are a thing, because the more eyes you have on something and the more those eyes are diverse, the less likely it is that something like these slips through.
But a lot of times, the CLIENT is actually the one forcing stupid designs through, refusing to listen to the expert they hired. And then they get embarrassed at their ineptitude, so they pretend it's not there
Yep. It's especially fun when they insist on a logo design style that we were taught to avoid like the plague and refuse to accept a better alternative that can actually be read clearly.
I've been drawing all my life, even did some commissions for folks, like drawing their OCs. So, I finally gave into the pressure to go to school for graphic design. It was... enlightening.
Turns out, while I'm really good at most technical aspects, I kinda suck at coming up with ideas for projects I'm not personally invested in. I also suck *worse* at dealing with customers, as I discovered when my brother-in-law commissioned me to make a brochure. Absolutely *hated* trying to explain why something wasn't a good idea to someone who couldn't even resize images evenly or *notice that the proportions were off.* The constant reworks drove me nuts, too. So I have a degree but there's no way in *hell* I'm making that a career.
As she said, a free focus group of 13 year olds would get it done
Probably my favourite example of that was Linus Bowman who showed the logo he made for some local comedy club and literally everyone in the comment section could only see it as a strip club logo.
This is why I quit designing. I didn't love it enough to deal with clients who wouldn't let me do my job.
We have a Morningwood Tree Surgeon in our area. They advertise on the placemats in the diner. I make strange noises every time I see it.
I named my senior bowling team Morning Wood, because we played in the morning.
Riiight! Playing in the morning was your ONLY reason for the name!
Fun Fact: In the movie, _Office Space,_ the apartments where Peter lived were called "The Morning Wood Apartments."
We used to have some hospitals with odd names/initials. University General Hospital (yes, they actually put UGH on the sign!), and Dedman medical center (which finally changed its name after years.)😂😂😂
Dedman medical Center 😂 I would NOT go there! UGH is quite an appropriate name for a hospital though
@@astrithr81 until you actually NEED one. Then, you're happy it's available (sort of).
But I have to agree, UGH!
Cape Valley (of Fear) Hospital in NC
@@davidhelsem8794That's the reaction to your hospital bill.
I can imagine Catholic hospitals having strange names. Immaculate Conception Birth Center. Blessed Virgin Gynecology Clinic.
OMG. the first one reminds me of when I had to stay in a homeless shelter named City union mission, and they wanted to make sure you could tell they're stuff from your own so they would write they're initials on everything. This was a family shelter so they had basically like separate motel rooms with padlocks on the door for full families. Well I'll never forget walking in the bathroom and yelling that there was C.U.M already on my towel to my husband. So of course He starts freaking out, and trying not to give it away I went on about how there was C.U.M. on all our sheets and even our pillow😂😂😂
We weren't the only ones to realize they had an unfortunate abbreviation, it was a running joke to ask anyone new if they'd found C.U.M. on they're pillow yet😂😂😂😂
I couldn't even make this up.
we're all going to hell😆
That's fantastic -- I'm sure it was unintentional at first (someone was so used to the name of the organization that that's all they saw when they wrote out its initials) but it's great that they kept it even after the "problem" was pointed out to them: what a simple, innocent way to hopefully give someone a smile!
Fun story about the name of the radio station for the University of North Texas:
On this side of the Mississippi, we begin our radio stations with the letter 'K'
Naturally, the University followed that 'K' with the most logical iteration of letters to represent the name of the University: 'UNT'
This meant the first broadcast went out from "KUNT Radio!"
Needless to say, it was quickly changed as the students went from saying the letters to the single syllable word in the first breath of that first broadcast.
Reminds me of college orientation. A bunch of representatives from the various campus organizations came up to talk about student life and getting assistance for things. Then the poor kid they selected from the campus security force came up to talk about safety and that they "offer an escort service." The entire *room* erupted in howls and catcalls as the kid visibly tried to will the floor to swallow him. "Not that kind!"
I was gonna mention this! I lived in Fort Worth around that time, and it was a very satisfying joke, especially since it was a pretty cool college radio station that we actually listened to.
As a graphic designer, these are great! I take great pride in knowing that they think our jobs are so easy, they could do it themselves and disaster awaits.
That last one's actually in Afrikaans, the original name was hermanus which is the name of a town in South Africa.
Oh. Ah. Mmm. That need fixin fast
Yeah...super weird to see it here😂
We also got CUM books, praise tha looowd 💀💀
Thank you! 😊
I'm suspecting it wasn't pure coincidence that the letter "m" was the one to fall down...
I always loved going past Flatt Tires on the way to the Iowa State Fair.
@suzannepottsshorts, They might actually rely on the funny pun to remain top-of-mind from passersby.
Love all the bad logos. Especially your commentaries 😂😂😂❤
I'm a designer, and some are made by someone internal with a bit of whatever skills, and some are made by actual designers who weren't payed enough / had c**k on their mind but nobody noticed it bc everyone has c**k on their mind 😂
When Newcastle Polytechnic became a university they considered several naming options. One suggestion was "Central University of Newcastle upon Tyne". Fortunately (or sadly, depending on your point of view) at some point someone considered the obvious acronym and that option wasn't the one chosen.
😂
Shame.
So that last one reminded me of the senior prank that was pulled my sophomore year. They took two letters off all the signage so "waseca high school" became "was a high school"
The first one is in Spanish. "Centro Universitario Metropolitano" is where the Medical Sciences department is for the Universidad San Carlos de Guatemala.
“Oughtn’t” such a great word 😂❤
These signs are usually the products of college educated graphic arts and marketing students and graduates, and there were at least 2 or 3 meetings about the final product.
But there's always one person in charge (usually the client) who throws a wrench in the well thought out plans, and that's how we get ideas like these
Omg I love your videos. I live in Chicago and I saw the nobel grape sign yesterday and was going to send it in to you and as I was thinking about that and watching this short, it popped up! I love that you're always 5 steps ahead of me 😂
This is hilarious! I have a marketing company and I'm saving this for us to watch at our meeting. 😂 Thank you!
Film projector!? I was wondering what it was supposed to be.
Oh, it's in Portuguese, the translation of the text says "Brazilian Cinematheque" (if the translation of the second word is bad, blame Google; but it's basically a library for movies).
The Noble Grape is in Chicago next to a club I used to go to and it took me a few minutes while waiting in line before I finally figured out that it said - I swear the G is harder to see IRL.
Your channel is pure gold! 🤣
Thank you so much!
Cummins is a famous truck/engine brand in Pennsylvania, or at least the north east. ..often known for their hemi multistroke engines.
If that were my name, I would start a cider mill.
Cummins Diesel. It's a big name, period.
Ahhh, those multistroke cummins ;)
😂@@dangrimes6200
@@davidhelsem8794 Dodge uses them and Ford uses PowerStroke. There's stickers out there - "I'd rather be Cummin than still Strokin"
I take that statement about being an employee and not getting paid to the heart. We were told about 6 weeks ago that our raises will not be given out until... Oct. And that feels like a huge maybe.
I work for a MULTI-BILLION $$ company.
The irrigation one... I literally LOL'ed!
The artfully placed splurt makes it perfect.
I swear this people hired video game developers who make goofy signs for game
Uhulllll começou a aparecer o nosso querido BR 🇧🇷
Always. Always show a kid first then put the design away for a week then look at it again before approving designs. Just remove those been looked at too many designs for too long blind spots. Write it into the contract if needed. Lord some of these are 😂
As a professional designer I will admit if we dislike the customer sometimes we do it on purpose. Sometimes the customer requests it cause they also have a the sense of humor of a thirteen year old. Sometimes it is completely unintentional ( I have done that a few times) which is why I Always run my designs by multiple people to see if there is an unintentional design flaw.
I live in the last one. It is called Hermanus but without the M we are really in it.
I can only assume that some of these were done on purpose
The last one is a place in South Africa, it's actually called Hermanus. A good spot to watch whales.
Remembering when the 'gl' burned out on the lighted sign at an eyeglass store.
(It made the morning DJs at the local radio station absolutely giddy.)
Cummins Irrigation knew EXACTLY what they were doing with that. The damn squirt lmao
Pulled into a gas station once and saw a vehicle for a plastering company with the saying "We get you plastered!" on the front. On the back it said Erection Specialists and below that, IN QUOTES- "We Get It Up". They knew what they were doing 😂😂😂😂
My high school has always had a myriad of Craps, Crapps, Butt, Butts, and Butte (said the same as previous). I did not grow up in a large town, yet the last names were very creative. I often wonder if they were a part of the settling history of the city I grew up in.😂
We have a local plumbing company called Cumming's Plumbing, and I refuse to believe that it wasn't 100% intentional, like they had to know
Of course the Noble Grape one cannot find the G! 😂
My home town had a family named Goodnight. They owned a bonding company. A local church had a minister exchange with a pastor from England. He and his wife arrived. Looking around town they saw this business less than a block from the church, and wondered just what had they gotten themselves into.
The company sign read "Goodnight Bonding." 😁
It was the subject of his first sermon.
Had he figured it out or was it the topic as in 'wow this town is in bad shape?'
@@musictherapy3976 He'd figured it out. 😁
🤔 else, someone had told him.
I created my own name and chose my own logo for my business. The logo is a stylized Crescent moon and the name starts with Silver Moon. I've had a few people walk by my banner or look at my business card and do a double take, thinking it says "Sailor Moon". All were 90s kids, like me, or younger lol, but at least I designed my own so I know there are no real issues.
Wow, you look FANTASTIC in your opening shot!
I once presented a company with half a dozen logos, with a couple of stinkers tossed in. They chose a stinker, and use it to this day, 35 years later.
The last one, "Hermanus", me thinks it wasn't an accident that the letter "m" is the missing letter.
I have said before, I am a retired printer and I know graphic designers and artists and they look a things like this as a challenge to see what they can get away with. And if the customer catches something the graphic designers just say "oh sorry, I didn't see it that way, I will redo it".
Not those of us who are true professionals. I'm a Pratt grad.
that cummins one was absolutely on purpose, the water droplets really sealed the deal
Hermanus South Africa!🇿🇦 the “M” always gets removed whenever possible 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Here in Poland I saw the name "Assman" and they were giving financial advice. This was a sign in Gora Kalwaria many years ago now. I laughed the first time I saw it.
One kid or one Middle School Teacher.
We know our audience
Near where i live in a city known as Frankston, an aquatics centre was built a few years ago. They were going to call it Frankston Aquatic Recreation Centre or FARC, until someone pointed out the problem of saying the acronym out loud. They fortunately decided on "Peninsula Aquatic Recreation Centre" or PARC instead.
the “noble grape” sign is so funny cause it can actually be read wrong two ways! how do I know?? I read “noble grope” and didn’t even see the “noble rape” until you mentioned it! XD the “a” in “grape” is just not different enough from the “o” right above it…
This is relevant to the bad logo's theme:
When I was younger n was planning out a book multiverse for myself (still hasn't actually come into being so I won't be supplying many details), I decided I wanted to make a title for it all. Like how the MCU is the Marvel Cinematic Universe or DCEU is the DC Extended Universe. At the time, my starting story was titled Fallen Love (it was a pun on a character thing) so I thought, lets work with that. Fallen Universe. Then I shortened it, 😊. I decided it was absolutely perfect n I would have to find a way to keep that name as the final universe name for the sake of keeping the initials as they were. I decided later on that the universe should have a far more unique name, especially after Fallen Love became one of the later stories i'd be telling rather than the first. But I miss the idea of ppl talking about my world they way ppl talk about the MCU.
Example of what a convo might've looked like:
Reader: I'm gettin really into this book series. There's so many characters and so much going on.
Friend: oh? What's the series called?
Reader: well the series is one of many in this collective universe. God, I love the FU so much.
Friend: the WHAT?
Reader: 😅
It would get someone to google the series even if they're generally uninterested at first. But sadly, the first initial of the universe starts with an E now so the FU can no longer be used 😢. Now if only I could make myself write the first damn book already.
SF/F with humor and puns? I'm there for it. 🤓
Im reminded of the old Tom Raper RV commercials.
In Brasil we do this on purpose 😂
OMG, this is funny as hell! 😂 How naive and stupid can these people be?!🤔😆😅 I especially started busting out laughing when you got to the supposed camera.😂
Fair credit to Hippie for bringing to the fore just how frequently the male genitalia is [mis]used for marketing purposes. It's considerably higher than we might expect.
And of course we're all titillated.
E o Brasil dando a sua contribuição 😂😂😂😂
That was a perfect abbreviation for a college. I would use all these services because they brought me joy in a way nobody else dares these days.
In Alameda and Albany ca there used to be a pair of stores named
tHeRaPy
Literally that, all the signage and packaging
I know this is old. But I just got it and after today's SCOTUS ruling on immunity...I needed the laugh. Thank you! 😂
Ich hab mich beim letzten Bild fast am Kaffee verschluckt vor Lachen 😂
There’s a college that used to be called Friends University of Central Kansas… they changed it a few years later
You gotta look into the wild stuff from down in Cumming, GA - for a Bible Belt town, they really lean into it
Funny and informative 😂😂😂 (for branding+marketing)
😂 It's even funnier that the captions accidentally say ought to instead of oughtn't
I lived quite near to Neptune, NJ. Surprised I don't remember this fine establishment.
Or you're not paying and they're getting mad 😂... Ignorance is free...thought is priceless ❤
There was a landscaping company named Doody where I lived as a teenager. I remember asking a guy who came into my work one time, "So, you work for Doody?" The moment I said it, I started laughing and realized how bad the company name was.
"There are times where you oughtn't." 😅😅😅
Global Point of Sale may wish to see a doctor about that 'one much bigger than the other' problem.
G-POS isn't exactly a great name either. POS is a common acronym for "Piece of Shit"... in this case "Global Piece of Shit".
Outside of Atlanta, there's a woman advertising for Beaver Toyota...in Cumming, GA...she REALLY needed a 13 year old!!
Hermanus, SA had not thought of that when they named it, but damn…
When I was a kid, the Schwinn bicycle dealer in town named his business after himself, Dick Cummings.
Honey, youhave my sense of humor. Much love. 😂
We have sliding scale transport called SCAT It's two counties and Area Transportation. I used them during my internship. It's nice, but the name always gave me a chuckle.
Come on that last one is just pure 🔥 marketing gold! 😂
Joplin MO. has a business named F.A.G. manufacturing, complete with a sign that leaves out the manufacturing part.
Cummins irrigation knew EXACTLY what they were doing.
Anyone else have "badcock and more"!?(furniture store, no idea if its local or not tho lol) My daughters BFF has been trying to break up w her bf all year and says hes SO bad in bed! We drove by "Badcock and More" and my daughter snapped a pic and sent it to her saying, "You didnt tell me Miles had his own business!"😃😂
Noble Grape! OMG 😮 So so obvious how could they miss that?!
There was a factory called F.A.G. (now called schlaffers) that made ball bearings.
I just. 😂
So in my area there's a company called "Woodcock" that's been around since 1955 and a nutrition store called stand out nutrition, bit the S is a big swoop across half their sign and the top and bottom are cut off and the rest of the first word is at the top of the sign, so it looks like it says Tand out nutrition. It took my fiance and I a good 2 minutes to realize the swoop in the sign was an S
Here in Western Australia we used to have the Curtin Institute of New Technology, and then they became Curtin University. There’s a rumour that they had printed jumpers before they realised that they needed to change the New Technology part now that they were a university.
to Global Point of Sales, its that one spot on the "G" that just sticks out to me. But tbh I'm not surprised they couldn't find it...
Always a good and funny watch
I understand why Cummins used his own name for his business. Another Cummins makes the best Diesel engines in use in industrial machines, and I would piggy back off that, too. If my family name was Cummins. Unfortunately, it's not.
Ah Hermanus!!!!! 😂
Back in the 80s when English was clear way cooler than plain old Finnish (but not that many really spoke fluent English in Finland) the Cumulus chain of hotels had customer loyalty program called "CUM club". I'm not absolutely sure how long in it run until it was renamed, but the ads and member cards were spotted in the wild.
...but better than certain brand introducing a bicycle model called "White Power" - because the frame was painted in white and POWER sounds cool.
I dunno, I'll probably remember Cummins Irrigation for a long time. And lets not forget about the (German?) bearing company with the three-letter name I can't type here. They used to have a plant outside of Jopin, and there was a huge sign with 8ft tall letters. Always good for a chuckle.
The last one is funnier if you imagine the "her" refering to the whale
Local business just opened here: Parkinson's Boxing.
It's Brazil. Definitely deliberate.