Found this on Brandnama’s blog. Sounds fun to me. Here’s my effort:
Apple
Buick
Caterpillar
Delta
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Fudruckers
General Electric
Halliburton
Igloo
Jaegermeister
Kong Pet Toys
Land’s End
Microsoft
NBC
Odor Eaters
Pixar
Qantas
Rain Bird
Safeway
Tupperware
Union Pacific
Verizon
Westinghouse
Xerox
YouTube
Zenith
A few interesting things here:
- The list really says a lot about a person. Brandnama and I have only one company (Xerox) in common.
- I bet that in about a year this list will be much different for me. Going from a married guy with a dog to a married guy with a kid and a dog will probably change my exposure to brands significantly. I can imagine that Gerber, Huggies, and other similar products will place well in coming lists.
- Regardless of anything else this list may imply, I do not have stinky feet.
Wanna Play? Comment with a link to your blog (where you have tried it yourself) – or just put your list in the comments.
Tate Linden
Principal Thingnamer
Stokefire Consulting Group
703-778-9925
Tate
Here is my list: http://www.popwink.com/?p=508
I have no idea where I pulled Yanni out of.
This is not as easy as it seems. Especially the X and Y are difficult, but my list is here: http://www.markeys.nl/weblog/285/the-name-game.
You make a good statement that the list says something about the person and the list is variable in time and place. Let’s play this game again in the summer and see what for brand are in our heads than.
Thanks gang… I’ll do this again in a few months and see what happens.
Here’s what I came up with:
Aramark
Bonne Bell
Clover Stornetta
Dick’s Sporting Goods
Epilady
Fragonard
Grr-Animals (or Guittard, they both occurred to me at once)
Hello Kitty
Igloo
Japanese Weekend (great maternity clothing)
Keds
(I couldn’t think of an L)
Macintosh
Noppies (another maternity brand)
Ocean Pacific
Prada
Quizno’s
Reebok
See’s Candies
Turtle Wax
Under Armour
Vitamax
Xerox
Yoo-Hoo
Zippo
Amtrak
Blaupunkt
Cascade
Disney
Epson
Fire Fox
Gulf
HP
IBM
JAL
Kaiser-Permanente
Land Rover
Maidenform
Ngu (Edit: Nakamichi)
Ortho
Pelikan
Quasar
Russell-Stover
Siemens
Time
Ultravox
Victrola
Westinghouse
X-Box
Yahoo
Zino
-SDW
Thanks SDW
Again I notice that there are many brands I don’t know… and many that I wouldn’t think of for a good couple hours.
Guess I’ve got my work cut out for me. Off to check out http://www.ngu.com.
Hi Tate,
I realize this comes late, but it’s gnu, not “ngu” -my bad. Looky here: http://www.gnu.com/
Now, am I allowed to substitute ‘Nakamichi’ for my original answer?
No problem, SDW.
If revisionism weren’t legal then politicians would occasionally make mistakes.
Tate