Pointless product brand name changes...

**aido_b** · 11/04/2006, 8:57 AM

Originally Posted by sirhamish

aidoB to aidoM to aidoB/aidoM

we're not the same person i tells ya!

**hamish** · 11/04/2006, 1:10 PM

Originally Posted by aido_b

we're not the same person i tells ya!

Ah, just "feeding the myth" aidoB/aidoM.

Actually, I should have remembered this. Garbally FC to "B" United to Ballinasloe FC to Ballinasloe United FC to Garbally United FC to Ballinasloe FC (again) to Dubarry Apaches FC to Creagh United to Ballinasloe Town FC. LOL

**Jerry The Saint** · 11/04/2006, 3:17 PM

partly because of the potential for confusion, in Britain, with the unrelated Jif lemon juice.

Jack Dee had a funny bit about the kind of idiot that would make that mistake between the lemon-smelling, lemon juice that comes in a little lemon-shaped container and the bathroom scourer with a picture of a bath on it - "How many pancake days were ruined...?"

**Troy.McClure** · 11/04/2006, 9:55 PM

Ye forgot phootball.ie to foot.ie!

And what was wrong with "The Examiner", not to mention "The Cork Examiner"?

Ah, better days

PS Its Newton Heath to Manchester Unitede Football Club to Manchester United Football Club PLC to Manchester United PLC to Manchester United (no FC or PLC anymore)

**hamish** · 11/04/2006, 10:14 PM

Seriously, was Foot.ie once called Phoootball.ie???

**Pauro 76** · 12/04/2006, 9:39 AM

Originally Posted by Troy.McClure

Ye forgot phootball.ie to foot.ie!

was it not phootball.com?

**aido_b** · 12/04/2006, 11:06 AM

childrens bbc to bbc childrens!

**Schumi** · 12/04/2006, 1:20 PM

Originally Posted by sirhamish

Seriously, was Foot.ie once called Phoootball.ie???

phootball.com as stated above. It was in black and white in those days too to save on printing costs.

**pete** · 12/04/2006, 1:22 PM

Originally Posted by Schumi

phootball.com as stated above. It was in black and white in those days too to save on printing costs.

Cheaper licence fee too to read.

**CraftyToePoke** · 12/04/2006, 9:34 PM

blisteze to blistex.........

and not strictly on topic but when i hear people say in relation to mk dons, that they beat liverpool in the famous fa cup final in the 80's .......... no they fuc�in didnt.

**Thunderblaster** · 13/04/2006, 12:09 AM

Knock Airport to IWAK. What the hell is IWAK? It really sounds like some Native American Indian tribe to me. Is Sitting Bull the CEO? Are smoke signals used to direct air traffic? Are passengers greeted by a tomtom band at the arrivals hall? Does immigration line up undesirables and shoot them with bows and arrows? Hey, all this is too sophisticated for something in the middle of a bog. Welcome to IWAK where you enter the uncivilised, backward part of the world.

**CollegeTillIDie** · 13/04/2006, 1:45 PM

Originally Posted by R�iteoir

Jif changed to Cif becuase it was found that the continentals couldn't pronounce the word "Jif"

No it was cause in the UK there was a lemon juice product also called Jif and they sued.

By the way Lynx Shower gel, deodorants etc is known as Axe in Continenatal Europe.

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Marathon bars.

changed to Snickers which confusingly is also a brand of industrial clothing.

Originally Posted by Troy.McClure

And what was wrong with "The Examiner", not to mention "The Cork Examiner"?

Ah, better days

Wasn't it the Irish Examiner for a while? Until they figured out there was an inadequate distribution to justify calling themselves a national newspaper.

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

UCD to UCDD.

1854 Catholic University
1908 University College Dublin
1997 University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin
2005 UCD Dublin
That's the complete transformation, and as UCD celebrated the 150 in 2004,
I feel entitled to start there!

**Jerry The Saint** · 13/04/2006, 4:51 PM

Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie

changed to Snickers which confusingly is also a brand of industrial clothing.

It's like the Jif thing though - confusing to who

Not going anywhere for a while - grab some industrial workwear to satisfy your hunger!

Snickers do sell an energy bar called Marathon though, so there's still some merit to the old names. Likewise Choco Krispies didn't last long before the natural order was restored.

**pete** · 13/04/2006, 5:52 PM

Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie

Wasn't it the Irish Examiner for a while? Until they figured out there was an inadequate distribution to justify calling themselves a national newspaper.

It IS called the Irish Examiner.

I don't know why they changed name from De paper though...

**hamish** · 25/04/2006, 11:16 PM

Spotted this in the "Said and Done" footie page in Sunday's Observer - reminds me of my footie days, dealing with PR companies.

The Franchise
Why the repeated references by Man. United executives to United as 'the franchise' in the past month? "Football club", say the designers of United's new logo, is a "redundant" term:"The old logo was dated. Our comprehensive visual audit (??????) highlighted one key change - to remove the words 'football club'. We felt these to be redundant. The result is a far simpler, more intense brand statement........"

BTW I'm not taking a cheap shot at Man. Utd. fans or the club - I'm sure the same bullsh!t is announced by sponsors of clubs in many sports.

But, as a footie fan, when I read stuff like that, a little part of me dies.
In addition, I had to type all that cr@p out as it wasn't online.

What the fcuk's a "comprehensive visual audit" when it's at home?? I have a sense of what it means but like much PR-speak, it's mutton dressed as lamb.

**Lionel Ritchie** · 26/04/2006, 4:10 PM

Originally Posted by Troy.McClure

And what was wrong with "The Examiner", not to mention "The Cork Examiner"?

Ah, better days

One of my strongest childhood memories is being sent to the shops by my grandfather to get him a Cork Examiner.

I'd say I was about 6 and I truthfully hadn't a clue what i was being sent to the shop for and would never have guessed it was a newspaper in a million years. It was quite an adventure -wondering what i might be picking up -some sort of magnifying mystical orb perhaps....

**the 12 th man** · 27/04/2006, 9:40 AM

Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie

One of my strongest childhood memories is being sent to the shops by my grandfather to get him a Cork Examiner.

I'd say I was about 6 and I truthfully hadn't a clue what i was being sent to the shop for and would never have guessed it was a newspaper in a million years. It was quite an adventure -wondering what i might be picking up -some sort of magnifying mystical orb perhaps....

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