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Gel wrote in message
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Well clearly it's a pun on B&Q's name so there very well are trademark
issues. It's a stupid name for a shop anyway.

"Dave Baker" wrote in message
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Gel wrote in message
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Well clearly it's a pun on B&Q's name so there very well are trademark
issues. It's a stupid name for a shop anyway.

It was explained what B & Screw came from. Daft trade name, and the singular
verbs are in such unforgiveable, coarse taste anyway.
Very few people ever knew what the abbrevn B & Q stood for, myself included.
The odd unfairness, maybe.
Bewildered and Queue? Bullying and Quarrelsome?

It was explained what B & Screw came from. Daft trade name, and the
singular
verbs are in such unforgiveable, coarse taste anyway.
Very few people ever knew what the abbrevn B & Q stood for, myself
included.
The odd unfairness, maybe.
Bewildered and Queue? Bullying and Quarrelsome?


Big & Quaint?

Peter Crosland

Jim Gregory wrote:
"Dave Baker" wrote in message
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Gel wrote in message
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/4512734.stm


Well clearly it's a pun on B&Q's name so there very well are trademark
issues. It's a stupid name for a shop anyway.


It was explained what B & Screw came from. Daft trade name, and the singular
verbs are in such unforgiveable, coarse taste anyway.
Very few people ever knew what the abbrevn B & Q stood for, myself included.
The odd unfairness, maybe.
Bewildered and Queue? Bullying and Quarrelsome?

I was told "Block & Quail" after the founders of the original store which got bought out to become B&Q. I imagine Mr B and Mr Q are
sunning themselves in some tropical paradise....


I don't think "Block & Quail" would have scaled up the way "B&Q" has.

Cheers,

William.

On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 16:47:16 GMT, "Jim Gregory"
wrote:

"Dave Baker" wrote in message
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Gel wrote in message
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Well clearly it's a pun on B&Q's name so there very well are trademark
issues. It's a stupid name for a shop anyway.

It was explained what B & Screw came from. Daft trade name, and the singular
verbs are in such unforgiveable, coarse taste anyway.
Very few people ever knew what the abbrevn B & Q stood for, myself included.
The odd unfairness, maybe.
Bewildered and Queue? Bullying and Quarrelsome?

Block and Quayle


--

I don't think "Block & Quail" would have scaled up the way "B&Q" has.

Cheers,

William.


I heard a tale about someone travelling in the States. The hotel asked if
he'd
got a discount card. Looking through he came across a B & Q card and offered
that. 'What's it stand for?' 'Bush and Quayle.' He got his discount! Yes Dan
Quayle. Remember him? No best not. The younger Bush learned his style
from T Dan Q.

Peter Scott

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Gel"
saying something like:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/4512734.stm

It's not as if he's been trading for years under that name. He's
deliberately taking the ****.
--

Dave

On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 16:47:16 UTC, "Jim Gregory"
wrote:

Very few people ever knew what the abbrevn B & Q stood for, myself included.

Block and Quayle. My wife worked for one of the first half-dozen B&Q
stores (before it even opend). I think one of them even came down for
the opening.
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On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 16:47:16 +0000, Jim Gregory wrote:


It was explained what B & Screw came from. Daft trade name, and the
singular verbs are in such unforgiveable, coarse taste anyway. Very few
people ever knew what the abbrevn B & Q stood for, myself included. The
odd unfairness, maybe.
Bewildered and Queue? Bullying and Quarrelsome?

Bodgit Quick

It's not as if he's been trading for years under that name. He's
deliberately taking the ****.

As they say, any publicity is good publicity.

Look at the coverage, and ask what it would have cost him for the same
level of advertising on the open market.

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In message , Dave Baker
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Gel wrote in message
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Well clearly it's a pun on B&Q's name so there very well are trademark
issues. It's a stupid name for a shop anyway.

Except that things now seem to have gone a bit too far

"Their name sounds a bit like ours"

or registering a certain colour etc

While it might sound like B&Q, it isn't

--
geoff

On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 22:31:41 GMT, raden wrote:

In message , Dave Baker
writes

Gel wrote in message
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/4512734.stm


Well clearly it's a pun on B&Q's name so there very well are trademark
issues. It's a stupid name for a shop anyway.

Except that things now seem to have gone a bit too far

"Their name sounds a bit like ours"

or registering a certain colour etc

While it might sound like B&Q, it isn't


.... and spot the difference between

www.homedepot.com

and

www.diy.com

the largest and third largest DIY sheds in the world

It's certainly not the case that CMT is "the only orange one"


--

..andy

Gel wrote:
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so he calls it Bolt & Screw, end of problem

NT