I was in a meeting today where a guy from our sales group was presenting recommendations on how to improve our business performance within the convenience store channel, and when we got to a page with this company's logo on it, I completely lost it and started sniggering like a nine-year-old boy who gets his first glimpse of a real girl's boobies.
So I had to check out the website to make sure that this was a real company, not some subversive sales-team inside joke. And it totally is! The phallic gas nozzle and the kid with the shit-eating grin on his face just makes it even more entertaining. I mean, really. Is this a gas station website or a cautionary tale to frighten teenage girls into taking a vow of chastity?
They're located mostly in states ending in -kota or -braska, but that's no excuse. They have porn in those states too, don't they? Unless someone over there is working on a name change, I see limited growth potential in this company's future...
P.S.Don't click to read more. There's nothing there. I'm just too much of a moron to figure out how to get the code out of my post html.
DIDN'T I TELL YOU NOT TO CLICK??? HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO REPEAT MYSELF?
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
And the "Company With The Smuttiest Sounding Name" award goes to...
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Wow! I bet they didn't pay much for their marketing and advertising geniuses!
The Kum name is a very well known name in the Midwest and actually holds a lot of respect in that industry. F. Scott Fitzgerald actually married into that family. Infact, he wrote many stories around the wealth and prestige of this fine upstanding family in the Midwest and on Wall Street where they controlled 50% of the Pepsi reserve in the world. (I’m full of shit.) Are we friends yet?
We have them in CO, too. It astounds me these stores aren't made fun of more frequently.
You have to wonder who thinks these names are a good idea.
OMG! I never heard of that company. I have to show my husband. That is insane that someone would think that was a good company name. Although I am sure their website gets PLENTY of hits.
Did they SERIOUSLY have to spell it KUM? I mean, really. That is just begging for it.
Okay, really...I worked marketing for years - HOW does a name like this get past...ANYTHING? Seriously? Or, are the owners just that wacked?
Ha! I love me some Kum & Go. There company headquarters is 10 minutes from my house in the state ending with -wa, and I'm in one almost daily (I've got this little problem with loving Diet Mountain Dew from a fountain, and those 44 oz refills really get a girl over the hump).
And, um, I have a Kum & Go tshirt, upon which is also their tagline - "We go all out!"
THAT is their TAGLINE?
Seriously, that is freaking AWESOME. Can I paypal you to buy me one of those? I'll wear it with pride when I take my kid to gymnastics on Saturdays.
Ick, and ick.
Oh, that is just wrong!
I'm familar with Kum n Go too, just can't remember where and when I've seen my last one. I'm sure it's appropriately made-fun-of by those in the umm 'know', i.e. those with an average IQ.
I love that 'birthed by manager mom' too - is that new? You are so stink' bad a** in a great way!
I'm off topic as usual but I wanted you to know that I took your Jesus is coming picture. I love it and I just had to have it. I tried to go without word verification but I hate spam. I'm sorry I tried it but went back to it. I'll be checking back with you soon. Thanks!
I would not have believed you, Manager Mom, if other people had not written in. Kum and Go. Unbelieveable.
Blogger is annoying bc you can't opt to use or not use the 'read more' function if you put it in the code. Please, someone, correct me!!!
Oh and Kum & Go is genius, no?
This may just go viral.
That has GOT to be someone's joke. What is the purpose of spelling it like that?!
I totally clicked for mo just to make sure you weren't being sneaky.
I've been to one of those stores and i too laughed my ass off. we took pictures. we pointed and laughed accordingly. i still am laughing. especially with the pump nozzle sticking right out of the screen like a big ole weenie. the only thing that would make it funnier would be large hot dogs in buns with squirty mustard getting applied.
very awesome.
They are also in states that end in -homa.
I was not surprised in the least when I saw one there.
That is classic. they had to know what was up.
Hey are you in the Stamford area in CT? I work in Stamford. I saw it on your lists of topics of interest. Nice to see other CT bloggers around.
2nd Place in the smutty contest has to go to In-N-Out Burger.
The best.
Hahaha! And the Kum & Go careers...might wanna watch out for the vice squad with that job.
I saw one of those stations a couple of months ago - had to take a pic and send to all my friends!
You should know that the -braska state -- of which My Love is a victim, uh, native -- balance out its Kum & Go with many Love's (www.loves.com). Karmatic, I'd say.
I am dying laughing over here! The kind of drunk laugh when you are so tired you don't even know what you are laughing at anymore. BAWHAAAA
I am SO cracking up at this! We do have them in South Dakota! The first time I saw one was when we took our family vacation out here last year before we moved. We drove into our friend's hometown, and there was the 'Kum & Go'! The kids were in the backseat, so hubby and I look at each other, trying not to crack up (cuz you know the kids will ask "What's so funny?"), and we're like, "NO! Tell me that's NOT what it says!" Oh, that is too funny. Good times, good times...
I think I need a cigarette. And I don't even smoke.
When I lived in the state ending in -ornia, all the cool kids would white out the "B" and the "r" on their bumper stickers and turn 'In-n-out Burger' into 'In-n-out urge'. Geniuses, all.
LOL...I hadn't heard of that company. Reminds me of the brainstorming sessions we would have at work, trying to avoid "bad marketing schemes" :)
Who's not interested in a kum & go career?
I clicked on the link. Sorry, I couldn't help myself. Also, the way to make an image link to a site is not hard. You just need to go into the code and replace one of the URLs. I can explain how via email if you want.
Also, I agree that ending comment verification will make this country a better place.
I really thought you were full of it..then I clicked and there are oodles of them in the more rural areas of Missouri too.. If I ever see one I'll be sure to get a picture.
If someone told me they worked at kum and go I would SWEAR that they were in the porn industry.
I bet that place sends away a whole lot of very disappointed and confused would-be customers.
And building on the mention of Scott Frosch, I think these two companies should do a joint venture, as is so common these days: just slap "Kum & Go In & Out" on the sign and get it over with.
The question is, were you the only one giggling at this meeting?
oh no! this is so funny. seriously, what were they thinking?
OMG, you are kidding me?! That has to be a man's doing.
I once got the giggles like that when I was being inducted into the English majors Honor Society in college -- Sigma Tau Delta. When the speaker told us that we could get an STD scholarship, I just lost it.
The first time I passed one of these establishments -- somewhere in the South, on a business trip -- I had to pull the car over I was laughing so hard. It's worse the Northwest Airlines rebranding itself as NWA. (In case you don't know, NWA is a rap group whose "Straight Outta Compton" was the Sgt. Pepper's of rap albums in the 1980s. And trust me... Northwest wouldn't want this connection if they knew about it.)
I would pay cash money if someone could locate and take a photo of any store clerks with names "Kandi", or "Tawny."
No offense to any of you Kandis or Tawnys that happen to be checking out the comments today...
This would have been the type of situation that would have led to another "HR" moment - I work with mostly techie guys, and this slide would have had them laughing so hard the presentation would have been over.
Good thing I don't work in marketing.
Can you imagine sitting in on the brainstorming session that took place when the company was named...can you imagine being their ad company? Oohhh the fun I could have with this account!
liquor store up here with the unfortunate name of The Bunghole with the tag "we're not #1 butt we're right up there."
i shit you not.
I donot how you kept your amusement at a snickering level - I would have laughed or guffawed out loud. I do not think I could have helped myself. That is hilarious! Now, I am going to be looking for one of these on every road trip!
I'd love to hear the how they decided upon this name for their stores!
Kum & Go Careers - *snort* - this is awesome!
No kidding, they also have them in states that end with KLAHOMA. I couldn't believe it either. The other one that isn't so bad but hard to explain to your kids is BADASS COFFEE COMPANY. Just don't know why that one is necessary.
OK So did they get an actual trademark on that name? and what are their marketing meetings like? And yeah Jenn, viral marketing must be awesome. There must be something on Youtube. This is the best laugh-my-abs-rock-hard thing I have read in a long time!
Kum & Go Careers - ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!
I have seen these gas stations for YEARS, and I have never thought anything of it!!! What is wrong with me?!
No offense taken.
oh my gawd!! Over here, we see so many really stupid / bad / terrible t-shirts and I actually saw one of those on a kid....I thought that surely, it was one that someone had just made up.
I really wanna find that guy and ask him where he got it!!
too freakin' funny!!!
"kum and go"...*snort*
I saw them in Oklahoma, too, and I about died laughing. I've heard of people collecting lighters and whatnot because the name is, um, unique. :)
Once my husband's company started filtering employee's internet use, he had to stop buying our kids their sporting equipment at his favorite site, "Jugs Sports"
I am about too pee my pants... that is so funny..
We will share "The Boy", I mean it is SO original and all, we must be super creative and therefore honor each other's art of fictitious naming.
However, if you have a husband and you refer to him as Candy Man, it's a fight. To the death.
Oh yes...inquiring minds want to know what exactly the job description for a Kum n Go career position would be...tee
hee ..............position*!*
I'm going to hell (along with the marketing Einstein who came up with that name)
Oh, it's real. We have one in Wisconsin. Which doesn't end in -kota or -braska but lives up to its -sin rep in other ways. Like being home to a Kum and Go. I swear my husband stops there just to giggle.
Oh my horsehockey.
I love that. LOVE.
Only in America!!
I'm planning a trip to one of the kotas or braskas just to take a picture in front of that sign....
Porn "kum" is spelled with a "C."
Dilettante.
; )
John -
Only the high class porn spells it with a "c".
For discount porn, it's capital "K" all the way.
Awesome blog you have here (my first visit). I'll be back. :)
I have actually been to one of these stores. We have family in S. Dakota and I wanted to get gas there just so that I could get a receipt with the name on it. Oh, they also have a vending machine that sell live bait. No joke.
That's a classic and needs to be sent around. If only I knew how to do that.
Loaf and Jug! Now that is Funny
That's Bizarre. I wonder why we don't have this chain down here.
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