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It’s That Time of Year

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  1. LOL!

    I get a kick out of funny company names and slogans. Some are pretty awful groaners but most make me grin.

    Here in Sarasota County, we have an HVAC company with the slogan LICENSED TO CHILL, and a septic tank service company named DOODY CALLS.

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  2. That was funny, my favorite character on Red Green was Winston Rothchild the 3rd and his Rothchild Sewer Sucking Service and all of his poems about his sewer sucking business. I don’t think that he ever had a date with a woman because of the nature of his business.

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  3. SNS, the history of the company name: “The company was founded in 1925 by The company was founded in 1925 by Harold Maxwell-Lefroy, Professor of entomology at Imperial College, London, who had been investigating ways to kill death watch beetles that had infested Westminster Hall in the Palace of Westminster.[3] Lefroy and his assistant produced an anti-woodworm fluid called Ento-Kill Fluids (“ento” coming from the Greek word for insect, ἔντομον entomon).[3] That year he tried to register the name Entokill, but owing to existing trademarks, he chose Rentokil instead, and this became the name of his company, Rentokil Ltd.[3] The founder Lefroy was killed in a laboratory when an experiment produced poisonous fumes.[3], Professor of entomology at Imperial College, London, who had been investigating ways to kill death watch beetles that had infested Westminster Hall in the Palace of Westminster.[3] Lefroy and his assistant produced an anti-woodworm fluid called Ento-Kill Fluids (“ento” coming from the Greek word for insect, ἔντομον entomon).[3] That year he tried to register the name Entokill, but owing to existing trademarks, he chose Rentokil instead, and this became the name of his company, Rentokil Ltd.[3] The founder Lefroy was killed in a laboratory when an experiment produced poisonous fumes.[3]”

    The founder of the company, Harold Maxwell-Lefroy, had a fascinating life.

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  4. my Dad used to answer the phone “Sams sewer service. Sam speaking…” We did not own a sewage company….
    People who knew us understood his intent was to shoo away solicitors.

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  5. @ Jethro AT 11:35 AM

    Reminds me of some people answering the phone back in the 70s with:

    County morgue. You stab `em, we slab `em. How can I help you?

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    Of course my favorite that someone came up with to shoo away salesmen was to answer the phone saying you were a detective at a murder scene and now they are a person of interest – stay on the line. We have some questions for you.

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