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    Consultant Somewhere Fired
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    Image of procrastinator, esq. procrastinator, esq.
    06/29/09

    In reply to Consultant Somewhere Fired
    And, not to get off-track here, but Flynt Publications just bought Whole Foods Market. Inevitably, the new stores will be called Whore Foods...
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    Image of procrastinator, esq. procrastinator, esq.
    06/29/09

    In reply to Consultant Somewhere Fired
    Cox Communications is nixing their proposed foray into the condiment industry. Seems like Cox-Smuckers wouldn't sell very well. At least outside of West Hollywood.
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    Image of procrastinator, esq. procrastinator, esq.
    06/29/09

    In reply to Consultant Somewhere Fired
    Looks like that planner merger between Mother Jones magazine and Fuddrucker's is off.
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    Image of procrastinator, esq. procrastinator, esq.
    06/29/09

    @procrastinator, esq.: ...er, planned.
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    06/29/09

    In reply to Consultant Somewhere Fired
    Their slogan: "The company with attitude!"
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    Image of SaraRueful SaraRueful
    06/29/09

    In reply to Consultant Somewhere Fired
    What's the big deal? Nigeria is overwhelmingly black -- it's okay if they say it!


    (Also, Ice Cube is totally hot, family movies notwithstanding. Yeah, I said it.)

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    Image of atlasfugged atlasfugged
    06/29/09

    In reply to Consultant Somewhere Fired
    There's the little-known Djibouti and Argentinian adult tourism conglomerate: Buenos-Bouti Ventures, and Djibouti's more prominent partnership with Burmese latex manufactures in Mandalay: Bouti-Lay Industries.
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    Image of SaraRueful SaraRueful
    06/29/09

    @atlasfugged: Heard they're trying to get a partnership going in the U.S., too -- Bouti-Cal Enterprises.
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    Image of dado dado
    06/29/09

    In reply to Consultant Somewhere Fired
    If Papa John's Pizza merged with Chubb Insurance.
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    Image of atlasfugged atlasfugged
    06/29/09

    @dado: Papa Chubb's Pizzasurance?
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    Image of dado dado
    06/29/09

    @atlasfugged: Papa Chubb, like an adolescent Fleshbot viewer.
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    Image of Colonel Mustard Colonel Mustard
    06/29/09

    In reply to Consultant Somewhere Fired
    I hear Balenciaga will be producing a line of handbags for Le Sac. I wonder which celebrity will be hired as the face of BalSac!
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    06/29/09

    @Colonel Mustard:


    Honoré de Balsac


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    Image of jbwan jbwan
    06/29/09

    In reply to Consultant Somewhere Fired
    Whoa, maybe the same consultant helped on the Flakland Islands-European joint venture Falk-Eu
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    06/29/09

    @jbwan:


    Honoré de Balzac


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    Image of Niko Bellic Niko Bellic
    06/29/09

    In reply to Consultant Somewhere Fired
    No one's getting fired over the connotative meaning of this name in US. Just check AmericaIsNotTheCenterOfTheWorl....ru
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    Image of Niko Bellic Niko Bellic
    06/29/09

    @Niko Bellic: ...GetFuckingOverIt.ru
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    Image of Niko Bellic Niko Bellic
    06/29/09

    @Niko Bellic: Love that photo of Ice Cube, though. One of my favorite albums ever.
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    06/29/09

    In reply to Consultant Somewhere Fired
    I'm wondering if this is how the new Czech theme park in Paris got its name -- Frague.
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    06/29/09

    @Mama Penguino: Ha ha ha, that's hilarious! Prague + France = Frague! How in the world did you come up with something that funny? God, you're so clever! Friended!
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    06/29/09

    @Mama Penguino: Frague also Frog! Oh, even funnier!
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    06/29/09

    @Mama Penguino:


    Unlike us, French people are prone to grennui.


    It's a specific type of existential despair that overcomes a French person whenever they remember that besides wonderful cheese and wine, and OK, Claire Denis and Carla Bruni (I'll give them THAT), they got nothing goin' for them at the moment.


    Grenouille + Ennui = Grennui.

    "Grenouille" is "frog" in "French"; and it's pronounced exactly as "grennui." (gre-NOOY)

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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    06/29/09

    @snugbug:


    That comment had a certain je ne sin qua non.

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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    06/29/09

    @snugbug: @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Major lulz to you both from the lesser penguin!
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    06/30/09

    @Mama Penguino:


    For this we have zee blagues, eh. Vahry Fraynch, and superbe if yew have zee gaul and zee wherewithall pour les cere-brawls.

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    Image of FrozenHaddock FrozenHaddock
    06/29/09

    In reply to Consultant Somewhere Fired
    Not exactly a joint venture, but...


    SC Governor and offspring PR firm: Sanford + Sons

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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    06/29/09

    @FrozenHaddock:


    I believe a joint venture is what's causing him all the grief.

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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    06/29/09

    In reply to Consultant Somewhere Fired
    I wonder if this has any connection to why the Ugandan-Libyan modeling agency, UgLi, has had so little success.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    06/29/09

    @DahlELama:


    There's a home furnishings chain in Israel called "Home-li"

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    Image of TableNine TableNine
    06/29/09

    In reply to Consultant Somewhere Fired
    I heard Sharpie is issuing a ladies-only line of markers....
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    06/29/09

    @TableNine: I don't get it. Do you...oh, you devil!
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    Image of TableNine TableNine
    06/29/09

    @BookishLookish: I hope you don't have them, Books.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    06/29/09

    @TableNine: Talk to the Jezebel girls, baby, not me. You can eat off my kitchen floor.
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    Image of TableNine TableNine
    06/29/09

    @BookishLookish: I've no doubt it's the envy of Per Se, but I prefer to eat out.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    06/29/09

    @TableNine: Do you, hot stuff? Did I say "devil"? I meant to say "archangel."
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    Image of SidAndFinancy SidAndFinancy
    06/29/09

    @TableNine: Will that compete with the pen made by Bic and distributed through Abercrombie & Fitch?
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    06/29/09

    @BookishLookish: I don't get it! Harpies?
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    Mama Penguino was starred Mama Penguino was unstarred
    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    06/29/09

    @Mama Penguino: No, slowpoke, change out the first vowel to the very next one in the alphabet...
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    06/29/09

    @BookishLookish: Ohhhhh...
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    Image of minge minge
    06/29/09

    In reply to Consultant Somewhere Fired
    PS - The funniest thing about the BBC article you link to is that it nowhere hints that anything is wrong with the name. Not even in a throwaway: "The new firm, whose marketing team must be on crystal meth, etc..."
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    Image of Robert Synnott Robert Synnott
    06/29/09

    @minge: No, the BBC never publicly makes fun of people. It just talks about the silly things they're doing, at length, entirely straight-faced.
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    Image of Robert Synnott Robert Synnott
    06/29/09

    @Robert Synnott: Although occasionally it will 'insert' quote-marks in inappropriate places 'to' show that something 'silly' is happening'.'
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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    06/29/09

    @Robert Synnott: Oh, yes, the beeb "loves" its "quote marks." Sometimes I "think" they are paid a "commission" each time they "hit" that "key."
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