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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
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Posted: Fri Jan 27 16:49:48 1984
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Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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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
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