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Unfortunately Named Truck To Help Save Environment

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I love the idea of electric vehicles, but did Electric Vehicles International really have to call it the "eviLightTruck"? Probably not a good idea to have, you know, Satan, in your product name. You're electric, people already think you're going to blow up their baby carriages, don't go out looking for ways to make your job tougher. [evi-usa]

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Technology itself is... EEEEVVVILLLLLL!!!!

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This just falls under that increasingly stupid trend of advertisers sneezing words together on their copy: JustLikeThis.

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What - they should have named it the Kneival?

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Dr. Evil would like to know if they come equipped with frickin' laser beams.

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No worse than ARS E-Commerce at [www.arsecommerce.com]

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@thesadtomato:

Or WeEnergies, who had to insert a "-" in their company website. www.we-energies.com

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Hey, it didn't hurt the Sedan DeVille...

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I'm a fan of the Two Men and a Truck moving company. Smooshed together, I always read their URL as tWomenAndATruck.com. The sequel to 2 girls 1 cup?

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Awww.. poor electric truck.

Maybe this was a shrewd marketing strategy, because right now I'm feeling a whole lot more affinity for an electric light truck than I ordinarily do.

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Still not as bad as when experts-exchange.com first registered their domain without the hyphen.

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I love it, I want a truck with that name.

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Good thing the batteries appear to exposed; someone who wants to mod their car could make pretty good use of those.

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There's lots of unfortunately named websites like that. expertsexchange.com (Experts Exchange), whorepresents (Who Represents?), penisland.net (Pen Island), speedofart.com (Speed Of Art), etc.

More at:
[blog.dreamhosters.com]
[blog.dreamhosters.com]

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I just read a thread similar to this. Take a look at the following:
[www.therapist.com]
[www.psychotherapist.com]
[www.ferrethandjobs.com]

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@Matt: oh god oh god oh god, i just scrubbed my cerebellum from that filth! damn you Matt! damn yooooooooooooooou!

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@Keen314:
Don't forget Pen Island at www.penisland.net

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[penisland.net]
www.speedofart.com
www.cummingfirst.com

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I thought they were complaining about the EVI,
If you said it with an english accent, it would sound like a Heavy Light Truck.
That's an 'evi light truck there.

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It's not an evil vehicle unless it's built using parts from the most evil vehicles in history:

The steering wheel from Hitler's staff car... the left turn signal from Charles Manson's VW... the windshield wipers from that car that played Knight Rider. (KITT wasn't evil, but his windshield wipers were... It didn't come up much in the show, though.)

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@thesadtomato: One of my favorites is a drug called Aciphex. When I first heard the commercial for it from the other room I ran to see what was being advertised. Sound it out to see what I mean.

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@Keen314: From the front page of ferrethandjobs.com: "Is your business in the right hands?"

That is quite possibly the best ever.

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@sharkd: Was it built by Anti-Chrysler?

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Kinda like the program in my town that calls themselves - Friends Of Performing Arts - guess no one knew what the acronym is slang for.

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Con Seannery '09: Ban Facebookers!

@chumia40_a_dude_w_the_'tude: I think you mean eeeevvviLLLLLL!

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@veg-o-matic: zurr.. that wasn't supposed to be a reply to anything, hence the lack of @ and the non-sequitir-iosity... mreh.

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Chances are you've heard about how Chevrolet had problems marketing the Chevy Nova automobile in Latin America. Since no va means "it doesn't go" in Spanish, the oft-repeated story goes, Latin American car buyers shunned the car, forcing Chevrolet to embarrassedly pull the car out of the market.

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These are the trucks they'll be using to collect the mobs which end up being Soylent Green. Hey! Soylent Green is ... "Green"?

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@Matt:
-1 for invoking the nightmare machine.