Red Band is a candy brand in The Netherlands. And Blue Band is also a local brand, but for margarine products, and in other parts of the world known as Rama, Country Crock or Doriana. I always wanted to mix these logo’s up. So up left I changed “Red” into “Blue” and for the original Blue Band logo, I changed it to “Red Band”.

The slogan for Red Band is “Als je voor pret bent” (If you’re into fun), which rhymes with both “Red Band” and “Blue Band”. So maybe dairy products can be fun too?

Oh, and just once, there was a sponsored link to Blue Band when I googled for Red Band. Didn’t happen again, though.

So, somewhere last year someone was handing out pens at the train station. And sure, I liked a free pen, so I accept one from the guy handing them out and read the text on it.

The name on the pen said Boobies. Then I looked again, and it still said Boobies. Afer a third time I re-read the name, but only then it said “Boober”.

Boober is peer-to-peer lending market place (like Prosper). Now, I do realize there was a Fraggle named Boober Fraggle in Fraggle Rock, but I still wouldn’t name my company Boober if people were to trust lending and borrowing money through it.

Just imagine meeting an employee working there: “I work at Boober” “At hooters?” “No, at Boober” “Boobies?”