This shirt got me thinking about all the lazy marketing people who named their product/service/business after a planet. They might say they named it after the original god name that inspired the planet name but that would be a lie.
Here is my list of well known planet rip-offs. This is all I could think of without any Geating (that is cheating with Google. Get it? I just made it up).
Mercury - The insurance company. The car brand.
Venus - The woman's razor.
Earth - None I can think of. I guess it would be confusing calling your product earth since, you know, we all live here.
Mars - The candy bar.
Jupiter - Not sure on this one. Isn't a Jupiter research group or something?
Saturn - The car brand.
Uranus - The punch line to many jokes but I can' think of any brands.
Neptune - Hmmm. The band (or are they producers)?
Pluto - The dog.
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Venus is also the name of a women's culture magazine. Earth is a really loud, thudding prog-metal band from the Pacific Northwest.
I wore this shirt to work on Friday and got exactl zero comments. I had to go so far as to say "Hey! Look at my shirt. It's brilliant." Genius is simply lost on some people.
Wow. That shirt is amazing. Honestly and truly. I can't get over how rad it is. Nice job, D. Nice job.
p.s. I'm the anonymous. I just didn't see that part coming. my bad.
*Kate
I seem to remember from back in the day that Jupiter is a the name of a company that made trumpets.
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