Stop the contest. Stanley chooses worst product name ever.

Every carpenter carries a hammer.

No carpenter drives nails with it.

In today's competitive, fast-paced construction industry, the hammer is used to knock things into place, to tear things out, to push things up to the ceiling. It's used to open paint cans, to kill cockroaches and to hold doors open.

The Stanley Works, maker of fine tools since God knows when, knows this well. They created the device you see above, which would be a hot seller except for the name they gave it.

It's a crowbar. A hammer. A hook to twist boards. It's got a nice cushiony handle for comfortable prying, and it even has a beer opener.

The name of this miracle device is the Stanley FatMax Xtreme Fubar Functional Utility Bar. Or Fubar for short.

Please tell me Stanley employs at least one person who was in the Army and who can tell them what Fubar means.

:rofl:

too funny

what next, the Snafu auto-expanding tape measure?

:D

Black and Decker makes it. It's called the Autotape.

Which, I am sad to say, I musta sold a brazillion of last Christmas season.

As in "Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition?" :7

...because Fitz either has or will indict all the old official tools...

Fitzgerald Undertakes Busting Ass of Rove

:rofl:

Is this for real? :rofl:

If it is, I want three of 'em. :bounce:




"Ralph, you seen the Fubar?"

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FNCULO/qid=1147637881/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-9084550-7368745?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=228013

Costs $41.99.

http://www.answers.com/topic/snafu

snafu
Origin: 1944

<snip>
In addition to the numerous official Acronyms (1943) of wartime, the sometimes frustrating experience of military life in the Second World War stimulated the improvisation of unofficial acronyms as well. Most of them involved the pair of letters f.u., which was translated politely as standing for "fouled up" in dictionaries intended for family use. Among themselves, members of the armed forces most often used a stronger f-word. Use your own preference in considering the examples that follow.

These words generally were written in lowercase letters, perhaps because they were unofficial, or perhaps to avoid suggesting impropriety by camouflaging them as ordinary words. They included fubar, meaning "f---ed up beyond all recognition," and the similar fubb, for "f---ed up beyond belief," as well as tarfu, for "things are really f---ed up." There was janfu, meaning "joint Army and Navy...," and GFU, referring to an individual who Generally Failed to Understand the situation--or something like that. But like the humorous abbreviations surrounding the birth of OK in 1839, most of the World War I coinages were short-lived. The exception was snafu, explained as "situation normal: all f---ed up."

Maybe the success of snafu resulted from the distinctive way it was used. A snafu was not an attitude but an event: "a mistake, a foulup, a glaring error." There was a need for an emphatic designation like this in civilian life too, so snafus have been plentiful ever since.
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:rofl:

:thumbsup:

Hell, I like it so much, I may just get one for myself! To tell you the truth, the name is great - it's almost a bonus!

What does that serrated part on the left side do?

Let's say you're in an area that requires fire blocking in the walls--short pieces of 2x4 about halfway up the wall that keep fire from conducting itself up the wall cavities.

If you have a Fubar, you drop the serrated end over the stud and pull. The fireblock will go in much easier because you've spread the stud gap out a bit.

It's also good to use as an arrestor in case you fall off the roof.

'Need something that'll drive a nail and serve in a pinch as an effective close-combat tool for those on-the-job altercations? That's when you need the Stanley Extreme Fubar. This is a tool that lives up to its name--any idiot stupid enough to fuck with you will get extremely FUBARed.'

desperately. His birthday is Tuesday.

named "Surpass". I think that's a pretty bad bit of product naming.

Shit Begone!

http://www.shitbegone.com/

Right now, get a free mug with every case purchase. Perfect for PTA rallies, board meetings and other events where decorum is of the essence.

Awesome for demo.

And I love the name, considering I'm gonna use it to fuck up stuff.

:shrug:

Pretty much a standard marketing technique when dealing with consumers.

Redstone