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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-11 09:21 AM
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The 8 Most Ill-Conceived Product Names of All-Time
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Although "Fartfull" merely meant "speedy" in Swedish, IKEA eventually pulled the doohickey from their website.








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Maccagirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-11 09:40 AM
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1. I remember the Chinese came up with "Tar Baby" toothpaste.
Yikes!
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Glassunion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-11 10:51 AM
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2. Lose weight with Ayds
Edited on Sat Aug-27-11 10:52 AM by Glassunion

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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-11 11:18 AM
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3. I used to sneak those out of my mom's purse.
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Chan790 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-11 01:12 PM
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4. I don't think it counts if the product pre-dates the unfortunateness of the name by more than 5 yrs.
Edited on Sat Aug-27-11 01:13 PM by Chan790
Those packagings look like they're from the 50s or 60s. AIDS is definitely a term of the 1980s.

It'd be like saying Spam is an unfortunate name for a canned-meat product because it's the term for junk email.
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-11 01:21 PM
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