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    So as a company you share your name with the Asian Chernobyl. Now you could adopt the Sellafield approach and just rename the town and surrounding area or you could create a cute mascot.

    Introducing Fukuppy....



    Surely someone knew enough english to stop them announcing this before it arrived. It ranks with the City University of Newcastle upon Tyne in crap rebranding exercises (and while Northumbria university deny it I do have the press release that didn't go out and the mock letterhead).
    merely at clientco for the entertainment

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    Originally posted by eek View Post
    So as a company you share your name with the Asian Chernobyl. Now you could adopt the Sellafield approach and just rename the town and surrounding area or you could create a cute mascot.

    Introducing Fukuppy....



    Surely someone knew enough english to stop them announcing this before it arrived. It ranks with the City University of Newcastle upon Tyne in crap rebranding exercises (and while Northumbria university deny it I do have the press release that didn't go out and the mock letterhead).
    "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
    - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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      #3
      Fuking 'ell...

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        #4
        Them crazy Japs, eh?

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          #5
          I think its Foo Kin Clever
          Originally posted by Stevie Wonder Boy
          I can't see any way to do it can you please advise?

          I want my account deleted and all of my information removed, I want to invoke my right to be forgotten.

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            #6
            Originally posted by SimonMac View Post
            I think its Foo Kin Clever
            and I was 1 hour before the Daily Mail
            merely at clientco for the entertainment

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