Lady Pants

Posted 5 Jan 2012

Clothing, Daily Life, Language | 2 Comments 

When collecting up some clothes from the dry cleaner, I laughed out loud when I read what I was picking up. I’ll leave it you to imagine what the garment looked like.

World’s Worst Brand Names

Posted 4 Jan 2012

Design, Language | 9 Comments 

I was walking through a discount grocery store the other day and the placed was filled with fake brand names such as “Ireos” for cream cookies. Seeing such clear cases of copy-catting, I started thinking about brand names. There’s no end to rip-off brand names but maybe we can take it one step further.

So today’s post is more of a game: Can you come up with the world’s worst brand name for the following items?

Just to get you started off, one idea I had for bottled water was “Dysentery”

• Shirts
• Bread
• Chocolate
• Milk
• Underwear
• Pencils
• Laptop
• Restaurant
• Department store
• Car
• Toothpaste

Obviously, we at CMD would never presume to limit your creativity so if there are other items and brand names that you think of, please do share.

Too Much Math

Posted 26 Dec 2011

Daily Life, Language | Leave a Comment 

An engineer, I understand that some problems require an awful lot of math to resolve.

That said, passing by an empty classroom the other day I saw six chalkboards full of math and I stopped for a moment to be grateful that my day-to-day life NEVER requires that much calculation for anything.

How much math is too much math?

Stool?

Posted 20 Dec 2011

Language, Signs | 2 Comments 

I came across this interesting sign and got very confused over what the real English translation might be:

Pooh? Please pooh here? Squat here? There is a stool for you to sit on inside? It’s definitely open to interpretation!

Common sense required

Posted 7 Dec 2011

Animals, Language | 2 Comments 

Seen on the back of a bottle for pet stain remover. The label starts off routinely: “Directions” then “Cautions”. But underneath that, the makers included a special set of “Common Sense Cautions”.

What does this mean?!? Does it mean that you need common sense to understand these warnings? Or maybe the first caution is not common sense and only understood by those with advanced IQ’s?