Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site tekigm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!uw-beaver!tektronix!tekigm!dand From: dand@tekigm.UUCP (Dan C. Duval) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: more sarcastic company names Message-ID: <49@tekigm.UUCP> Date: Fri, 27-Jan-84 16:49:48 EST Article-I.D.: tekigm.49 Posted: Fri Jan 27 16:49:48 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 07:56:17 EST Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 22 How about...? Putrid Hackers (Hewlitt-Packard, spoonerism to Pewlitt-Hackard, and tah-dah...) and to show this is not a shot of sour grapes, Tackytronix (Tektronix) Some employees of IBM, transferred with little or no notice from city to city fondly call their company I've Been Moved The best bunch at mutilations of names is the USNavy, where nearly every ship has an unofficial nickname among its crew or the crews of other ships, such as the "Numnutz" for the supercarrier Nimitz. Dan C Duval ISI Engineering Tektronix,Inc tektronix!tekigm!dand