I’m thinking things like “Same-sung” For Samsung, because all their products look kinda generic and boring, or Ford standing for “Fix Or Repair Daily” because of the engineering and build quality, or “McDiabetes”, for obvious reasons.

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    There’s a gas station chain called Kum & Go but it’s also referred to as Jizz and Jet or Ejaculate and Evacuate.

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      With a name like that you could say they were screwed from the start.

      There could be a whole thread just on the variations of that concept, but the most obvious for a gas station has to be “Pump and Dump”

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        Iirc, Maverick is/was its own chain. Maybe they got acquired. The name change seems like a good move.

        Also, not to hail corporate too much, but the Maverick burritos are legitimately the best value meal for food to go in my area. About $7 for a big burrito that doesnt make me feel like shit, and that I can walk in the door and grab from under the heat lamp myself.

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          Honestly I hate to sound like an ad but I love mavericks. A: like you said, the burritos kick ass, no fast food breakfast even comes close, but B: they have the best implemented self-checkout of any place I’ve ever been to. No interruptions for special offers (but tbf the same can’t be said for their pumps), they seem to take every kind of card and tap, it’s not laggy and slow, no companion app necessary. It’s just scan burrito, scan drink, scan card, bolt. If I know what I want I can be in and out in like a minute.

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    I have a queer friend that calls his GMC Yukon his Gay Man’s Chariot. When we go places in it he usually initiates by saying something like “to the chariot”

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    When I had a Samsung TV, I hated it intensely and printed a label that said “scamsung.” That TV eventually went to the recyclers with that label still covering the Samsung one.

    McDonalds→McDicks→McPenis. I’m mature.

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    There’s a trucking company called Swift that gets a lot of flak for hiring inexperienced drivers. One of the nicer ones is So What I Failed Training. The rudest one I’ve heard ends with Toddlers, you can probably work out the rest, but you probably shouldn’t.

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    “Home Despot” is one of my favs from Joey Santore of crime pays but botany doesn’t.

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    Nintendon’t on account of their rabid intellectual property protection and litigious nature.

    Works as both what they might say to would-be infringers as well as advice to avoid them. (Which people ignore because Zelda, Mario and childhood memories.)

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        Interesting. For as long as I’ve been alive, it hasn’t been legal here (UK) for a brand to specifically name and disparage another brand in their advertising like that. (This doesn’t apply to political parties, for “reasons”, but I digress.)

        That is, I’m not sure how it came to be in my head. I had thought I had come up with it independently, but I have to admit there’s a chance I’ve seen someone else use it over the intervening decades, and it has ultimately come from the advertising you’re quoting.

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        That slogan was used for ads comparing the Genesis to the Super Nintendo. The SNES released in 1991 in North America so it’s no older than that.

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      I don’t ignore it, I’m aware. I buy their stuff regardless because it’s that good.

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    Jimmy Johns: similar to Pei Wei & PF Chang’s, there is a fancier, more expensive version of the restaurant named James Jonathan.

    Fiat: Fix It Again Tony 🤌🏻🤌🏻

    Google: it used to be an in joke with my friends to say “giggle it” instead of google it. Now we don’t use google of course…

    Best Buy: Worst Buy

    Target: it is pronounced “tar-jay” because it is the fancy version of Walmart

    711 was a part time job!

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    Samsung –> Samsucks

    PlayStation –> PayStation (Not a company name, but relevant enough)

    Edit: more names I came up with (I don’t use all of these but they are reserved in case I have to):

    Roblox –> Blowblox

    Discord –> Disscord

    Apple –> Crapple

    McDonald’s –> FakeDonald’s

    Dunkin –> Bunkin

    Sam’s Club –> Scam’s Club

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      NoPayStation is software used to download PS games to install on consoles with custom firmware. (I’m not sure if it downloads from PSN or just pirated copies from somewhere.)