@PooltoyWolf@kyeh I know! I was seriously impressed with the quality here. Every one was both a good pun and at least somewhat on brand. Very good work, writers!
If they hadn’t been bought by Lindt, BRusselStover, Belgium would be amusing - but I guess Lindt might try to leverage the brand name to increase its sales of that line in Europe.
Some of these were Head & Shoulders® above the others. Cheerios® to those Nerds® that made their own! I’m still very North American centered, so my thinking will be closer to Old El Paso® (it’s not a Country Crock®) and would need a brain Boost® from Uncle Ben® or Aunt Jemima®. I hate to Cheez-it® without contributing something, but that’s Life®.
@phendrick Ethiopia is in Africa. Nepal and Tibet are in Asia, sandwiched between India and China. China has iron-grip control of Tibet; Nepal has been nervous for decades.
@pakopako@phendrick Nepal is still listed by the State Department as being an independent entity; the US does about $300 million in business with them per year. India has a strong vested interest in keeping them independent as a buffer state, and China is painfully aware that grabbing Nepal means interfering with the low-volume but extremely high-profile Everest tourist trade. For now, the Nepalese are able to leverage all of that.
@phendrick@werehatrack Hm. I’m perhaps being paranoid and cynical. It’s like when all the local shops in Chinatown get replaced by Starbucks and Panda Express, to me it is Chinatown in name only.
London Fog
BerLinkedIn
Some AI-generated (Claude 3), didn’t always understand the assignment:
Dubl-In-N-Out
OsLowe’s
BudaPestControl
GlasGoogle
VienNapster
EdinBurgerKing
MosCowbell
Lyon-el Richie
@awk BOOO - no fair using AI.
@awk @Kyeh But several of those were actually clever (for a bot).
@awk @phendrick
I know, but unfair.
Washington, DC, if you allow globally.
@phendrick this is an underrated and underappreciated post! Well played!!!
Eau de Cologne
Helslinky
Honestly all of the puns were solid this time. Hard to pick a fave. Lmao
@PooltoyWolf They did think of all the good ones already, IMO. Although @ircon96 and @shahnm could probably prove me wrong.
@PooltoyWolf @kyeh I know! I was seriously impressed with the quality here. Every one was both a good pun and at least somewhat on brand. Very good work, writers!
Big Odessa Tires
Seville-age Inn
Zermattel
SoFi-a, Bulgaria
Snapples, Italy
Del Monte Carlo
I’m out and about traveling this week
Pity - I could’ve had some fun with this one… Y’all have at it though!
@shahnm How dare you be off and neglecting us? Where’s your loyalty? You’d probably even go away and leave our bodies behind for the enemeh to ravage.
@phendrick Well yeah… it is MEH.com, after all…
@phendrick @shahnm Wait, are we going to be ravaged by enemas now? I’m not looking forward to that.
If they hadn’t been bought by Lindt, BRusselStover, Belgium would be amusing - but I guess Lindt might try to leverage the brand name to increase its sales of that line in Europe.
Would’ve voted “Copenhagen-Daaz” from the copy had that been included in the poll!
Some of these were Head & Shoulders® above the others. Cheerios® to those Nerds® that made their own! I’m still very North American centered, so my thinking will be closer to Old El Paso® (it’s not a Country Crock®) and would need a brain Boost® from Uncle Ben® or Aunt Jemima®. I hate to Cheez-it® without contributing something, but that’s Life®.
Oh wait.
Copen Häagen-Dazs, Denmark™
Istam-Red Bull, Turkey©
Dove®, UK (it’s inevitable℠)
@pakopako Sorry, the writers beat you to the first two!
@Kyeh wait, there’s write-ups for polls too?
@pakopako On the sales page
Addis Alibaba, Ethiopia.
CatChowMandu, Nepal.
ChefBoyardeeLhasagna, Tibet.
[capital enterprises, all.]
(Aren’t these still in Europe? Or did the chinese buy and move them?)
@phendrick Ethiopia is in Africa. Nepal and Tibet are in Asia, sandwiched between India and China. China has iron-grip control of Tibet; Nepal has been nervous for decades.
@phendrick @werehatrack Are there still Nepalese? I imagine by now, they’ve “disappeared” from within the borders.
@phendrick Adidas and Alibaba can probably share Adjis Ababa.
@pakopako @phendrick Nonono. Adiddas Alibaba is branded by a major Asian producer of counterfeit sportswear that’s sold exclusively on Alibaba.
@pakopako @phendrick Nepal is still listed by the State Department as being an independent entity; the US does about $300 million in business with them per year. India has a strong vested interest in keeping them independent as a buffer state, and China is painfully aware that grabbing Nepal means interfering with the low-volume but extremely high-profile Everest tourist trade. For now, the Nepalese are able to leverage all of that.
@phendrick @werehatrack Hm. I’m perhaps being paranoid and cynical. It’s like when all the local shops in Chinatown get replaced by Starbucks and Panda Express, to me it is Chinatown in name only.
Pisa Hut
Costcorsica
@806D2701 Oman, they’ve bought an entire country!
@806D2701 @pakopako France objects. CostCorsica is merely a well-backed region, not a separate nation.
Vovlograd, Russia
that super nice place, KindBarcelona
@phendrick
It IS a pretty nice place …
PayPalermo