On Saturday, 6 January 2018 04:38:45 UTC+4, Terry Kennedy wrote:
>
> On Friday, January 5, 2018 at 10:25:54 AM UTC-5, Terry S wrote:
>
>> I don't think I trust a li-ion battery labeled "Trustfire".
>>
>
> Why not - they're just continuing a long tradition of 
> somewhat-inappropriate brand names:
>
> Sparkle Power - power supplies - http://www.sparklepower.com/
> MeanWell - power supplies - http://www.meanwell.com
> TVI (ham radio acronym for TeleVision Interference) - video terminals 
> (TeleVideo, Inc)
> NonLinear Systems - oscilloscopes and other test equipment (which you 
> would hope would be linear) 
> Fluke - well-regarded manufacturer of test equipment, but it must be a 
> fluke 8-)
>

The phase is "nominative determinism".

Here in Dubai we've have a building that in the last couple of years has 
gone up in flames not once, but twice... 

It was, and still is, named "The Torch"...

Nick

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