There's something a bit depressing about computer shops, isn't there? Not games shops - but those independent businesses which repair computers, and sell bits of technology to plug into your computers. Plus, there are SO many of them.
Obviously, it's a cutthroat marketplace, and making your business stand-out with a snappy and memorable name is a necessity. Some people, however, just take it too far...
Obviously, it's a cutthroat marketplace, and making your business stand-out with a snappy and memorable name is a necessity. Some people, however, just take it too far...
Uh... that's... interesting. It makes no sense, and it's also somewhat unwieldy to say.
"Hello, PC MAC-gicians."
"Hi. My PC Mac is broken. Can you gician it for me?"
"Hello, PC MAC-gicians."
"Hi. My PC Mac is broken. Can you gician it for me?"
Yes, there really is a place called Troon. It's in Scotland. "I'm catching a troon to Troon," Scottish people might say, in that funny voice they have. Perhaps a "computroon" is what people from Troon call a computer.
In fact, maybe they add "Troon" to everything. "I can't come out tonight - I'm staying in to watch Strictly on the teletroon."
It's difficult to know for sure without actually catching a troon there. Nevertheless, the name of this shop reads as little more than the product of mental wrongness to the rest of us.
In fact, maybe they add "Troon" to everything. "I can't come out tonight - I'm staying in to watch Strictly on the teletroon."
It's difficult to know for sure without actually catching a troon there. Nevertheless, the name of this shop reads as little more than the product of mental wrongness to the rest of us.
Yes. Yes, very good. Very good pun. What a shame you don't also sell retro computer hardware, for then you could've called your shop "PCs of 8-Bit". Do you see? And then you could've forced your staff to dress up as pirates and get scurvy.
You can picture the manager of this shop, can't you? Striding around with his bluetooth earpiece, climbing repeatedly in and out of his Jaguar, and acting for all intents like he owns the world. He probably treats his staff like dirt.
Their hearts must sink whenever he says he'll accompany them on their Friday night drinks... for they know that it will inevitably end in a trip to a strip club, and their paymaster becoming aggressive and abusive with the dancers.
Their hearts must sink whenever he says he'll accompany them on their Friday night drinks... for they know that it will inevitably end in a trip to a strip club, and their paymaster becoming aggressive and abusive with the dancers.
Conceptex? What means this, plz? It means nothing. It's just some syllables slapped together to sound vaguely high-tech.
Here's another thoroughly meaningless name. What does it mean? WHAT DOES IT MEAN?!?! What. Does. It. MEAN?! Meeeeeeean! What's really funny is that they weren't even quick enough to nab the website Compucom.com...
Mate... mate, for reals? You're not going to get anybody in your shop if on the one hand you're offering to repair and service computers, and then - on the other hand - profess that you "destroy" them. They really didn't think this through.
It doesn't matter whether your surname really is Hitler - there are connotations, and slapping it on the front of your computershop is hardly inviting custom.
On one level they've tried to sound futuristic and sci-fi-y by spelling the word scrotum with a Z. On another level... they've inexplicably called their shop Zcrotum Technology.
They're not even trying with this one. Nothing about this name suggests computer sales and repairs. Unbelievable.
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