What’s in a name?

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Published by: AlanP on 9th Mar 2010 | View all blogs by AlanP

I just wanted to share this.

Some years ago I had to take an examination so that I could say I was qualified in a particular project management process. In the exam I had to specify the process, believe it or not, of getting a book published. A combination of my lack of respect for these pretentious box ticking processes and the subject matter being close to my heart led me to try to make my answer entertaining. Therefore I named the printer "Inky Hands" and the accountants "Takemore - Cash". Not entirely sober and serious, but neither am I. It seems to have worked as colours flew while I passed the exam and can now say I am a PM2 Practitioner. Whoopeedoooo.

Anyway, the way I make my living is by resolving technical and management questions for law firms when their IT clients sue each other and they don’t have a clue what they are suing each other about. It happens a lot.

I recently have come up against a firm of solicitors that I had never heard of before. Now when you are against a firm they always appear difficult, unpleasant and objectionable. That is as certain as Christmas. But this lot are called "Wright - Hassell". Really.

Comments

8 Comments

by Skylark 1 year ago

Hee hee. Some people really need employ marketing experts before going into business!
by Weens 1 year ago

This reminds me of all those fishy names that chippies come up with.
by SecretSpi 1 year ago

Oh dear - and did anyone notice the name of one of the German ski jumpers in the Olympics? Began with W and ended with K. We also have a local builder who proudly displays his name on a metal sign on his projects. Begins with F and ends in R. Maybe the two of them should get together to start a legal enterprise??
by Rebecca Holmes 1 year ago

When I was growing up and learning the piano, our piano tuner was called Mr Sharp. And at school we had a teacher called Mr English - who taught French and Latin.
by AlanP 1 year ago

There was an English teacher called Shakespeare at my school, but he never taught me. He played clarinet in our jazz band. And I don't see what's funny about an athlete called Wark and a builder called Mr Fulmer, but I don't speak German very well. Maybe that's it.
by Liss 1 year ago

Not really a person's name, but a van at my school came to do some building work. The name of the company was "Quality Erections" - come on.
by Weens 1 year ago

I went to school with a girl called Teresa Green. You would think her parents would have named her anything but Teresa. Still, I suppose it's better than Phillipa Bucket.
by Inktrailer 1 year ago

There's a good chip shop in N Ireland called The Moby Chip.
Plus a sofa place called The Sofa King, who managed to get away with a billboard containing a photo of a sofa with the slogan 'Sofa King Good'.