World wide wobbles - 06/28/03 09:45 PM
from Michael Quinion's email this week (for any who don't yet subscribe)...
Newspapers have been having fun with the name of the Web site set up by the British energy firm PowerGen, which is investing in Italy and has created the wonderful www.powergenitalia.com (it is a real Web site, I can confirm, though not always easy to access). But you might prefer instead www.crotch-partnership.co.uk, which isn't what you're thinking it is, unless you know it's a firm of solicitors in Norwich. Another odd one is http://www.whorepresents.com at which you can find an actor's representative.
World Wide Words is copyright (c) Michael Quinion 2003. All rights reserved. The Words Web site is at http://www.worldwidewords.org
Newspapers have been having fun with the name of the Web site set up by the British energy firm PowerGen, which is investing in Italy and has created the wonderful www.powergenitalia.com (it is a real Web site, I can confirm, though not always easy to access). But you might prefer instead www.crotch-partnership.co.uk, which isn't what you're thinking it is, unless you know it's a firm of solicitors in Norwich. Another odd one is http://www.whorepresents.com at which you can find an actor's representative.
World Wide Words is copyright (c) Michael Quinion 2003. All rights reserved. The Words Web site is at http://www.worldwidewords.org
