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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
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Aw, Mav, too bad you weren't in Ireland to watch the hookers race 
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EMBARRASSING DOMAIN NAMES It turns out that PowerGen has nothing
to do with the site I mentioned last week, www.powergenitalia.com,
which has actually been set up by an Italian firm - presumably one
with poor English - that charges batteries. Douglas Yates provided
two other nice examples, one being http://www.classicalbums.co.uk/,
but his favourite is a company that sells mobile phone ring tones
based on hit tunes, http://www.ringtoneshits.com/.
World Wide Words is copyright (c) Michael Quinion 2003. All rights
reserved. The Words Web site is at <http://www.worldwidewords.org>.
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http://www.classicalbums.co.uk/ sounds like one for you, mav! (Hee, hee!)
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Here's another one - a sports betting firm has www.oddsexchange.com as their address.
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There was one here www.bigboystoysexpo.com - an exhibition of cars (including the rally car I am involved with), helicopters, motorbikes, cheese graters, etc., which was on in Sydney a couple of weeks ago. All very innocent I assure you...  
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toysex [...] cheese graters [...] very innocent I assure you... How do you make your omelettes, Hev? 
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Dammit, I've been sprung!
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