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Title: How's this for an amusing corporate "cock-up"?
Post by: dentstudent on 17/12/2008 10:14:48: Perhaps you've already seen this, but the story goes that the Office of Goverment Commerce spent 14,000 pounds creating a new logo. It looked like this:

(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi198.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Faa155%2FDentstudent%2Fogc1.jpg&hash=53d4f1de8fbc9e9b27c9aacdddc37233)

However, when viewed from a different angle, it looks like this:
Title: How's this for an amusing corporate "cock-up"?
Post by: Chemistry4me on 17/12/2008 10:57:02: Did you think of this yourself?
Title: How's this for an amusing corporate "cock-up"?
Post by: dentstudent on 17/12/2008 11:00:20: Quote from: Chemistry4me on 17/12/2008 10:57:02
Did you think of this yourself?
What, the fact that it looks like an onanist from the side? No, it was todays Telegraph.
Title: How's this for an amusing corporate "cock-up"?
Post by: Chemistry4me on 17/12/2008 11:10:32: Forgive my ignorance but what does this Office of Goverment Commerce do? Apart form the obvious? Perhaps you could say that there are a lot of w**kers there???
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Post by: dentstudent on 17/12/2008 11:17:10: Quote from: Chemistry4me on 17/12/2008 11:10:32
Forgive my ignorance but what does this Office of Goverment Commerce do?

Now there's a question! Any takers?
Title: How's this for an amusing corporate "cock-up"?
Post by: Bored chemist on 17/12/2008 18:45:21: Well, I looked on their website and the first item on the list of things they do is
"Delivery of value for money from third party spend; "
Now I'm pretty sure that "spend" as a noun is an old slang term for the act of masturbation (though I admit I'm too naive to know what a third party w**k is)
Title: How's this for an amusing corporate "cock-up"?
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 18/12/2008 10:19:39: Quote from: Bored chemist on 17/12/2008 18:45:21
(though I admit I'm too naive to know what a third party w**k is)

Sounds like something you could get in a dodgy Thai hotel.
Title: How's this for an amusing corporate "cock-up"?
Post by: dentstudent on 18/12/2008 10:25:50: Quote from: DoctorBeaver on 18/12/2008 10:19:39
dodgy Thai hotel.

Tautology [;)] (FOG)
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 18/12/2008 10:26:59: Quote from: dentstudent on 18/12/2008 10:25:50
Quote from: DoctorBeaver on 18/12/2008 10:19:39
dodgy Thai hotel.

Tautology [;)] (FOG)

Oh Phucket!
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Post by: Don_1 on 18/12/2008 10:52:47: Bestest name for a town I've ever ~~cum~~ come across
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Post by: dentstudent on 18/12/2008 11:13:05: Did you not see my thread a while back for "Wankdorf", near Bern? It apparently means "Staggering village". MonikaS - any comment on that?
Title: How's this for an amusing corporate "cock-up"?
Post by: Don_1 on 18/12/2008 11:40:12: If you Wankdrof too much you probably would be staggering!!!
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 18/12/2008 20:43:18: Quote from: Don_1 on 18/12/2008 11:40:12
If you Wankdrof too much you probably would be staggering!!!

"Ahem", at Don for a mis-spelling.
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Post by: blakestyger on 18/12/2008 22:11:50: Quote from: dentstudent on 18/12/2008 11:13:05
Did you not see my thread a while back for "Wankdorf", near Bern? It apparently means "Staggering village". MonikaS - any comment on that?

The Americans are a bit more circumspect - I remember in Pennsylvania we went through a place called Intercourse.
Amazingly, it was near an Amish village. [:0]
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Post by: JimBob on 19/12/2008 02:58:35: In the place named Dime Box, Texas the price has gone up drastically! Can't even get good sh*t for a dime anymore.
Title: How's this for an amusing corporate "cock-up"?
Post by: Don_1 on 19/12/2008 09:33:57: Quote from: DoctorBeaver on 18/12/2008 20:43:18
Quote from: Don_1 on 18/12/2008 11:40:12
If you Wankdrof too much you probably would be staggering!!!

"Ahem", at Don for a mis-spelling.

Well fogged. Took me ages to see the mistake even after you pointing it out!
Title: How's this for an amusing corporate "cock-up"?
Post by: dentstudent on 19/12/2008 09:54:06: Quote from: Don_1 on 19/12/2008 09:33:57
Quote from: DoctorBeaver on 18/12/2008 20:43:18
Quote from: Don_1 on 18/12/2008 11:40:12
If you Wankdrof too much you probably would be staggering!!!

"Ahem", at Don for a mis-spelling.

Well fogged. Took me ages to see the mistake even after you pointing it out!

Well, it does make you go blind....
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 19/12/2008 10:06:05: Quote from: Don_1 on 19/12/2008 09:33:57
Quote from: DoctorBeaver on 18/12/2008 20:43:18
Quote from: Don_1 on 18/12/2008 11:40:12
If you Wankdrof too much you probably would be staggering!!!

"Ahem", at Don for a mis-spelling.

Well fogged. Took me ages to see the mistake even after you pointing it out!

Ahem - Your pointing it out (FOG)
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Post by: dentstudent on 19/12/2008 10:08:29: Or "..you pointed...".
Title: How's this for an amusing corporate "cock-up"?
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 19/12/2008 10:10:42: Indeed
Title: How's this for an amusing corporate "cock-up"?
Post by: Don_1 on 19/12/2008 11:00:22: Far too much Wankdorf here, Specsavers will be making a fortune!!!
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 19/12/2008 11:35:22: That's a very short-sighted attitude.
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Post by: Don_1 on 19/12/2008 12:21:41: Quote from: DoctorBeaver on 19/12/2008 11:35:22
That's a very short-sighted attitude.

I am not short sighted and I have not chewed anybodies hat.
Title: How's this for an amusing corporate "cock-up"?
Post by: dentstudent on 19/12/2008 12:25:11: Quote from: Don_1 on 19/12/2008 12:21:41
Quote from: DoctorBeaver on 19/12/2008 11:35:22
That's a very short-sighted attitude.

I am not short sighted and I have not chewed anybodies hat.

"..anybody's hat" (FOG)
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Post by: Don_1 on 19/12/2008 12:28:15: Ouch! Serverely FOGGED
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Post by: dentstudent on 19/12/2008 12:30:26: Consider your wrist slapped!
Title: How's this for an amusing corporate "cock-up"?
Post by: dentstudent on 19/12/2008 12:32:28: Don_1 12:28:10 Using the spellchecker

Very wise....
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 19/12/2008 23:51:45: Quote from: Don_1 on 19/12/2008 12:28:15
Ouch! Serverely FOGGED

Serverely? (FOG)