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		baud147258 on March 15, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why are most sofas so bad? > Mind you that's not the daftest brand name or trademark ever! Here in France, the daftest I've seen is the Audi e-tron, with etron meaning turd... Though it's been out of common use, so Audi just left the name as is.

martopix on March 15, 2024 [–]

I remember an app that was a calculator where you could pen-in your calculations, so it was called Ink-ulator.

They later changed the name profusely apologizing to Italian users.

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