What's the worst name you've seen for a product? [closed]

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What's the worst name you've seen for a product?

It might be a euphemism the company didn't know about, maybe something like Penetrode (from Office Space).
It might be something impossible to do a web search on, like the band named "Download".
It might be some combination of random syllables that's just awful.

But no matter what, it's bad. What's the worst you've seen?

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