"Frequent travelers should know this. Which company's name comes from a song called ""Space Captain"" whose lyrics contain the words ""Lovely ___"" but the founder heard misheard the word ""lovely"" and decided to name the company thus?"
"genesis of mondegreens. The travel guide book series Lonely Planet is named after the misheard phrase ""lovely planet"" sung by Joe Cocker in Matthew Moore's song ""Space Captain"". In Dutch, mondegreens are popularly referred to as ""Mama appelsap"" (""Mommy applejuice""), from the Michael Jackson song ""Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"" which features the lyrics ""Mama-se mama-sa ma-ma-coo-sa"", and was once misheard as ""Mama say mama sa mam[a]appelsap"". The Dutch radio station 3FM had a show ""Superrradio"" (originally ""Timur Open Radio"") run by Timur Perlin and Ramon with an item in which listeners were encouraged to send in mondegreens under the name"
"and ""Atlantis"" were used in its assembly. NASA chose, on cost grounds, to build ""Endeavour"" from spares rather than refitting ""Enterprise"" or The orbiter is named after the British HMS ""Endeavour"", the ship which took Captain James Cook on his first voyage of discovery (1768–1771). This is why the name is spelled in the British English manner, rather than the American English (""Endeavor""). This has caused confusion, including when NASA itself misspelled a sign on the launch pad in 2007. The Space Shuttle carried a piece of the original wood from Cook's ship inside the cockpit. The name also honored"
"and unveiled on Constitution Day, September 17, 1976, a letter-writing campaign by Trekkies to then President Gerald Ford asked that the orbiter be named after the Starship ""Enterprise"", featured on the television show """". Although Ford did not mention the campaign, instead saying he was ""partial to the name"" ""Enterprise"", he directed NASA officials to change the name. ""Columbia"" was named for the historical poetic name for the United States of America, like the explorer ship of Captain Robert Gray and the Command Module of Apollo 11, the first manned landing on another celestial body. ""Atlantis"" was named after the"
"for him personally as her pilot. He was awarded the Order of the Cloud and Banner personally by her for his services with CNAC and the Burma Star for his services in respect to the relief aid program. Although initially based in Shanghai, the two men moved to Hong Kong to found Cathay Pacific Airways. They named it ""Cathay"" because that was the medieval name given to China derived from ""Khitan"", and ""Pacific"" because Farrell speculated that they would one day fly across the Pacific. The Chinese name for the company comes from a Chinese idiom meaning ""Grand and Peaceful"
"released on the live album ""Mad Dogs and Englishmen"". A different recording of the song was released as the B-side of Cocker's hit single, ""The Letter"". Later in the 1970s, Moore played in David Cassidy's band, and collaborated again with Russell. One of the lines of ""Space Captain"" was the inspiration for the name ""Lonely Planet"", a mishearing of ""lovely planet"" by the company's founder, Tony Wheeler. Matthew Moore Matthew Moore is an American singer and songwriter. His biggest commercial success is the song ""Space Captain"", which was recorded by Joe Cocker (1970) and Barbra Streisand (on ""Barbra Joan Streisand"","
"777-300 (B-HNO) has its company name misspelled as ""Cathay Paciic"" instead of ""Cathay Pacific"", with a missing letter F, from a painting factory in Xiamen, China. Passengers discovered that the word ""Pacific"" is spelled incorrectly and they contacted the airline in Hong Kong International Airport. It was brought back to Xiamen, China to correct the spelling of the word ""Pacific"". The Cathay Pacific official twitter page states that ""Oops this special livery won’t last long! She’s going back to the shop!"". Many people in social media make several jokes and memes about the spelling error. Since its inception in 1946,"
"Flight testing is scheduled to complete in the first half of 2019 with the first flight of astronauts, on a mission contracted to NASA, scheduled to occur later the same year. SpaceX's CEO, Elon Musk, named the spacecraft after the 1963 song ""Puff, the Magic Dragon"" by Peter, Paul and Mary, reportedly as a response to critics who considered his spaceflight projects impossible. SpaceX began developing the Dragon spacecraft in late 2004, making a public announcement in 2006 with a plan of entering service in 2009. Also in 2006, SpaceX won a contract to use the Dragon spacecraft for commercially"
"on miniaturization, affordability, and simplicity. As with many Japanese start-ups of the period, the name Roland was selected for export purposes as Kakehashi was interested in a name that was easy to pronounce for his worldwide target markets. Rumour has long circulated that he named his company after the French epic poem ""La Chanson de Roland."" In reality, the name Roland was found in a telephone directory. Kakehashi opted for it as he was satisfied with the simple two-syllable word and its soft consonants. The letter ""R"" was chosen because it was not used by many other music equipment companies,"
"""a sort of retro-futurism"". Several ""Enterprise"" toys and models have been released, including versions by Art Asylum, Diamond Select Toys, QMx and Eaglemoss Publications. In the original pitch for """" by creator Gene Roddenberry, the vessel that the series was set on was called the SS ""Yorktown"". The starship was subsequently renamed USS ""Enterprise"" before the start of the series because of the growing real world fame of the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, recently launched by the U.S. Navy as the . The name ""Enterprise"" has been linked with ""Star Trek"" since. A second ""Enterprise"" made its debut in"
"the project, Big West Advertising, was a fan of Shakespeare and wanted the series and the spacecraft to be named . A compromise was made with the title due to its similar pronunciation to ""Macbeth"" in Japanese and because it still contained connotations to the original title. The word ""Macross"" comes from a wordplay combination of the prefix ""macro"" in reference to its massive size in comparison to human vehicles (though when compared with the alien ships in the series, it is a relatively small gun destroyer) and the distance they must cross. The following are themes commonly seen and"
"his style of roasting beans. The company took the name of the chief mate in the book ""Moby-Dick"": Starbuck, after considering ""Cargo House"" and ""Pequod"". Bowker recalls that Terry Heckler, with whom Bowker owned an advertising agency, thought words beginning with ""st"" were powerful. The founders brainstormed a list of words beginning with ""st"". Someone pulled out an old mining map of the Cascade Range and saw a mining town named ""Starbo"", which immediately put Bowker in mind of the character ""Starbuck"". Bowker said, """"Moby-Dick"" didn't have anything to do with Starbucks directly; it was only coincidental that the sound"
"285 Fortune 500 companies have set up base in Binhai. Tianjin is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese characters , which mean ""Heavenly Ford"" or ""Ford of Heaven"". The origin of the name is obscure. One folk etymology is that it was an homage to the patriotic Chu poet Qu Yuan, whose ""Li Sao"" includes the verse ""...departing from the Ford of Heaven at dawn..."" (, ""zhāo fārèn yú Tiānjīn xī""). Another is that it honors a former name of the Girl, a Chinese constellation recorded under the name Tianjin in the Astronomical Record section of the Book of Sui."
"contractor for the program was North American Rockwell (later Rockwell International, now Boeing), the same company responsible for building the Apollo Command/Service Module. The contractor for the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters was Morton Thiokol (now part of Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems), for the external tank, Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin), and for the Space Shuttle main engines, Rocketdyne (now Aerojet Rocketdyne). The first orbiter was originally planned to be named ""Constitution"", but a massive write-in campaign from fans of the ""Star Trek"" television series convinced the White House to change the name to ""Enterprise"". Amid great fanfare, ""Enterprise"" (designated"
"settled on until the 1950s. It comes from a meaning ""grand and peaceful state"" and was at the time often used by other businesses called ""Cathay"" in English. According to legend, the airline's unique name was conceived by Farrell and some foreign correspondents at the bar of the Manila Hotel, while another narrative was the name was taken in the Cathay Hotel in Shanghai Bund, during drinking and brainstorming, and choosing Cathay was to avoid the word China in the airline name. 25 September, on Cathay Pacific's maiden voyage, de Kantzow and Peter Hoskins flew from Sydney to Hong Kong"
"UK. In March 2000 the four founders resigned from IBM and approached investors under the name Unwired Ltd. The company name was changed, a few months later, to Volantis Systems Ltd. - the taking its name from the constellation Volans. The company’s logo is a representation of the constellation. The initial idea which the founders took to investors involved ""developing a yellow pages-like directory service for mobile phones"". This was soon dropped in favour of creating ""technologies to enable companies to build web sites for all sorts of devices—smart phones, kiosks, digital televisions, gaming consoles, and...mobile phones"". The company received"
"company's name came from his admiration for Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther, particularly the character of Charlotte. Using natural chicle, Lotte launched a number of chewing gum brands, including Orange Gum, Lotte Gum, Cowboy Gum, Mable Gum, and the highly popular Baseball Gum. The company backed up its products with strong advertising support, becoming one of the first in Japan to sponsor television programs, as well as its own baseball team and other event s, such as beauty pageants. In the mid-1950s, the company sponsored the country's Antarctic Research Expedition Team, developing a chewing gum for the effort's training program."
"capitalization of Trillium when it was incorporated was $1,000. The name Trillium came about because of a mistake. Jeff and Larisa asked for company name suggestions from family and friends. Someone suggested a character named Trillian from the book ""Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" by Douglas Adams. They thought the suggestion was supposed to be trillium, a flower in the lily family. They liked the sound and symbolism of the name Trillium so they used it. Trillium was started as a consulting company. Its first consulting jobs were to develop communications software for bisynchronous, asynchronous and multiprotocol PAD products. Consulting"
"as the logo was to be, both internally and externally. Corporate communications and business cards included the strapline 'Bell Labs Innovations' in a bid to retain the prestige of the internationally famous research lab, within a new business under an as-yet unknown name. This same linguistic root also gives Lucifer, ""the light bearer"" (from lux, 'light', and ferre, 'to bear'), who is also a character in Dante's epic poem ""Inferno"". Shortly after the Lucent renaming in 1996, Lucent's Plan 9 project released a development of their work as the Inferno OS in 1997. This extended the 'Lucifer' and Dante references"
"a newly formed Norwegian company, the Norwegian American Line (Norske Amerikalinje), was experiencing difficulties in trying to raise the initial capital essential for its establishment. The F. Schichau Company made a proposal to Norske to become a shareholder, promising to provide them with the capital they needed to survive, if they would agree to purchase the ""Kaiser Friedrich"". The proposal was accepted and the agreement reached a point where Norske gave the ship the name of SS ""Leif Eriksson"", in honor of the Icelandic explorer of the 10th century. Unfortunately for Schichau, at the last minute Norske decided not to"
"USA and Philip Morris International; at the time, it owned an 84% stake in Kraft, although that business has since been spun off. The name ""Altria"" is claimed to come from the Latin word for ""high"" and was part of a trend of companies rebranding to names that previously did not exist, Accenture (previously Andersen Consulting) and Verizon being notable examples, though linguist Steven Pinker suggests that in fact the name is an ""egregious example"" of phonesthesia — with the company attempting to ""switch its image from bad people who sell addictive carcinogens to a place or state marked by"
"Corporation for her best friend's father, Arnie Greenberg, one of the three founders of Snapple. When Kaufman was a young child, she wrote her one and only fan letter to Greg Brady (Barry Williams), which went unanswered. So, at Snapple, when she realized how many people were trying to connect with the company, she took it upon herself to answer all the letters, since she remembered how terrible she felt when Williams never replied. This led to her being referred to as ""The Snapple Lady"". When it was discovered that Kaufman had been answering Snapple fan-mail in her free time"
"Flight Publishing. The name for Fantasy Flight originates with Petersen's first company, Pegasus Spil Imports; Petersen originally wanted to call his new company Pegasus Publishing but he found Pegasus used too often by other companies and instead he chose a name that was representative of the pegasus: a fantasy flight. The original idea for the Fantasy Flight Games company came from Petersen's love of European comics, and by negotiating with European publishers Petersen came up with the rights to three comic books: ""Lucky Luke"", ""Spirou & Fantasio"" and ""Percevan"". He started off publishing the comics he had licensed, and when"
"a name for the new line, but none of the suggestions was found to be acceptable for trademarking purposes. Given that early codenames for Eclipse systems included The Bird and The Big Bird, a reference to flight seemed appropriate. ""Avion"" had been suggested, but lacked the ability to be trademarked. At that time, two European companies had created a naming trend using repeated vowels - Baan and BiiN. Avion was modified by repeating the 'i' and making the rest of the word uppercase as AViiON. (""Avion"" (or ""avión"") is the word for ""aircraft"" in French and Spanish.) The use of"
"coal company. Reggie Pepper served as a prototype for Wodehouse's later character Bertie Wooster. In a letter to a fan also named Wooster who asked Wodehouse about the origin of Bertie Wooster's name, Wodehouse wrote, ""I can't remember how I got the name Wooster. I think it may have been from a serial in the old ""Captain"", where one of the characters was called Worcester. The odd thing is that the Bertie W. character started out as Reggie Pepper, and I don't know why I changed the name."" Notably, it is Bertie's valet Jeeves who would eventually be named ""Reggie"""
"was named by Cunningham, who remembered a Honolulu International Airport counter employee telling him to take the ""Wiki Wiki Shuttle"" bus that runs between the airport's terminals. According to Cunningham, ""I chose wiki-wiki as an alliterative substitute for 'quick' and thereby avoided naming this stuff quick-web."" Cunningham was, in part, inspired by Apple Inc.'s HyperCard, which he had used. HyperCard, however, was single-user. Apple had designed a system allowing users to create virtual ""card stacks"" supporting links among the various cards. Cunningham developed Vannevar Bush's ideas by allowing users to ""comment on and change one another's text."" Cunningham says his"
"the motor oil brand, as it was sponsored by Veedol's manufacturer, Tidewater Oil Company (Tydol). Herndon's mother, Alice Carter Herndon, was the heiress of the Tidewater Oil Company. Pangborn and Herndon had been trying to set a speed record for a round-the-world flight, but after a number of delays along the way including a damaging landing in Khabarovsk, in the Soviet Far East, they found themselves 27 hours behind schedule and had to concede breaking the record set earlier that year by Wiley Post and Harold Gatty. Looking for a worthwhile aviation record to set, they decided to modify ""Miss"
"by simply adding a cute design to the sandals and hired cartoonists to design cute characters for his merchandise in response. In 1973 the company was officially established under the name ""Sanrio"". The company's European website says the name comes from the Spanish words ""san"" (holy) and ""río"" (river.) The book or ""This is the Sanrio Company Secret"" gives another origin of the name. According to this book, Tsuji, Sanrio's founder, said that , part of the company's former name, has an alternative on'yomi reading of ""sanri"". The remaining ""o"" was added from the sound people make when they are"
"inside the space slug). While an act of loyalty to his former captain and role model, his willingness to preserve an idealized image of Nova by refusing to arrest him and turn him over to Mission Control in disgrace ironically mirrors Mission Control's decision to preserve an idealized image of Star himself by exiling him on The Nameless Planet. The program frequently presents commercialism in an absurd light. The opening theme reveals that the voyages that made Captain Star the greatest hero any world has ever known were missions in which he travelled to inhabited planets and renamed them after"
"Albert and his friends Nathan Handwerker, Herman Rapps, Sidney Robbins and Paul Yampo formed a corporation called Coney Island Enterprises. In 1957, Rapps and Albert announced they would build Wonderland. Through a series of acquisitions, together they built what is today known as Astroland, with rides including the Tower to the Stars or Astrotower gyro tower, the Cape Canaveral Satellite Jet emulating a trip to the Moon, the Mercury Capsule Skyride carrying patrons in bubble cars across the park to the boardwalk, and the Neptune Diving Bells, a duplicate of an Atlantic City ride that took patrons 30 feet down"
"from Trekkies, ""one of the most dedicated constituencies in the country"", as a reason for giving the shuttle the name. Although Ford did not publicly mention the campaign, the president said that he was ""partial to the name"" ""Enterprise"", and directed NASA officials to change the name. In mid-1976 the orbiter was used for ground vibration tests, allowing engineers to compare data from an actual flight vehicle with theoretical models. On September 17, 1976, ""Enterprise"" was rolled out of Rockwell's plant at Palmdale, California. In recognition of its fictional namesake, ""Star Trek"" creator Gene Roddenberry and most of the principal"
"years later it became ""Société française des ballons dirigeables"" (""French company of balloons and dirigibles""). In 1909, the name Zodiac (with an English spelling) appeared in the name ""Société française de ballons dirigeables et d'aviation Zodiac"" (""French company of balloons, dirigibles, and aviation, Zodiac""), followed in 1911 by ""Société Zodiac, anciens Établissements aéronautiques Maurice Mallet"" (""Zodiac Company, formerly Maurice Mallet aeronautical establishments""). In 1965, the company changed its name to ""Zodiac"". The name Zodiac is associated with the inflatable boats that were developed after the Second World War and made famous by the explorations of Jacques Cousteau and the experiences"
"two episodes of ""The Original Series"" (TOS), Kirk refers to the ""United Space Ship ""Enterprise"""". In 1976, before """", Paramount had planned a ""Star Trek"" film to have been named """". Early in the production, Ralph McQuarrie had been hired to redesign the ""Enterprise"". The major feature of the redesign was to replace the cigar-shaped secondary hull with a larger, triangle-shaped ""delta wing"" section. McQuarrie's design was discarded in favor of keeping the general shape of the ""Enterprise"" intact for the redesign unveiled in """". Three decades later, the McQuarrie design for the ""Enterprise"" was adopted as the basis for"
"held a contest among his staff to name the company, offering a bottle of homemade wine as a prize. Christiansen was considering two names himself, ""Legio"" (with the implication of a ""Legion of toys"") and ""Lego"", a self-made contraction from the Danish phrase ""leg godt"", meaning ""play well."" Later the Lego Group discovered that ""Lego"" can be loosely interpreted as ""I put together"" or ""I assemble"" in Latin. Ole Kirk selected his own name, ""Lego"", and the company began using it on their products. Following World War II, plastics became available in Denmark, and Lego purchased a plastic injection molding"