h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A Chinese restaurant in Co Kildare, Ireland: Soon Phatt.

Lawn irrigation company: Bed Wetters

For those who know the King's Road, Chelsea, UK, may well remember the Ho Lee Fook, later to become The Emperor. I believe there is now a Fook Ho Lee in Fulham.

An electronics company in Athens (on road from Glyfadha to airport): Tonsil Electronics.

There is a boat manufacturer near my home village called Leakey Boats. His cousin is a tiler - Leakey Roofing. I'm not making it up.

Sadly, Powergen's Italian branch appear to have taken down their website.

B

Mr B, as I understand it PowergenItalia was a spoof. (Quite a good one, though )

There used to be a clothing line called, F-U-C-T. Of course that was on purpose. When my buddies mom saw him wearing the shirt he told her it was pronounced foost. She didn't believe him.

There's an estate agency called Hotblack Desiato........
http://www.hotblackdesiato.co.uk/page/homepage

Who names their company after a character from HHGTTG?

Cheers,

G


PS this post is a joke, I do know that Geoff OK'd DNA's use of the name:
http://www.douglasadams.com/cgi-bin/mboard/info/dnathread.cgi?1324,8

There was (is?) a chinese restaurant in Melton mowbray (UK) called 'Wok this way'.

And someone has compiled a book of the worst ones around the country. It was mentioned on Radio4 last week. Anyone else heard ofit? Done a quick search of amazon and found nowt unfortunately.

"Mr B, as I understand it PowergenItalia was a spoof."

Yeah, I did know. But it seemed a shame to puncture a good myth.

B

Powergen Italia is not, and was not, a spoof.

It was a genuine unfortunate domain name.
The actual company is one that produces batteries and chargers for industrial fork lifts.
They can now be found at batterychargerpowergen.it where you can purchase the forklift charger of your hearts desire. No mention I could see of their previous domain name, but after hitting the top 20 websites on the net when this all kicked off, I should imagine someone told them, hence the change.

Another one was the tech site experts exchange, which used to have the url www.expertsexchange until someone pointed out the alternative, whereupon it became www.experts-exchange

Those are hilarious, Lord Wolfden, Gnomon...