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Subject: Re: dumb names (was Re: Anyone ever tried experts-exchange for
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Adrian Wontroba writes:

> a test user. It was only when listings with TESTICL banner headings
> appeared on my desk that I realised what I'd done.


Hehe.. That's a good one.

I think the hardest time with names are had by international companies. I 
recall a news article how often times names that sound "hip" or interesting 
in one country are rude/offensive in another.