It gets even weirder

[agoodwinsmith]

So, I've been snortling because of a shopping bag I see here used by Urban Behaviour ( http://www.urbanbehavior.com/ ).  It's a white bag, with black printing on it like thus:

Sexy
Modern
Edgy
Generation

And I've been thinking - doesn't anybody ever check their acronyms before they chose a slogan?

And you know, I was expecting the google search to turn up this entry first one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smeg_%28vulgarism%29

But it was not.

Instead the first google entry was this:
http://www.smeg.com/
which led to this:
http://www.smegusa.com/
Upon which website, if you wait for the images to scroll by, you will eventually see retro-50's fridge, in candy cane pink, with the acronym SMEG in big chrome letters across the front.

Oy.

I mean: oy.

Comments

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

They are not in Canada - and there was only one location in the States - although a great number of locations throughout South America.

I didn't find what it might be an acronym for: "Small & Medium Electronic Gadgets"? :)

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

According to the web ...

The name Smeg stands for "Smalterie Metallurgiche, Emiliane, Guastallia" which is a metal enamelling factory in Emilia, Italy.

It's even more amusing, if you go to, say, the UK site for SMEG (www.smeguk.com), as the page loads, it pulls images from the "home" webserver at www.smeg.it (grin!), really!