Transferring business names to the digital platform can be dicey, especially when it comes to creating a website name or email address.
Sometimes the new moniker creates an unintentional word or word combination.
Geelong Independent recently became Geelong Indy, in part because so many emails went astray because correspondents often included an “a” in Independent.
Local business Ocean Grove Removals has fallen into the same trap. Its website has been reduced to ogremovals, which to the eye can read ogre movals.
But we’re sure they’re all really nice blokes.
Acronyms can be frustrating and confusing but occasionally one pops up that is – well, heavenly.
A small family farm down near the 12 Apostles rejoices in the angelic moniker of Great Ocean Ducks.
That’s right, GOD for short.
Greg and Jodi Clarke have established a 16-hectare operation farming free-range Aylesbury and Pekin ducks.
In fact local federal MP Dan Tehan described the spot in parliament as close to a slice of heaven as you are likely to see with views down to the coast near Port Campbell.
GOD has even produced a fast-selling cookbook because duck can be a difficult recipe to master.
With 150 birds a week flying out the door, including locals eateries Gladioli and Zigfrids, it’s easier than ever to find GOD.
.The “Ho, ho, ho” is being drowned out by the ding, ding, ding and it’s not the cash registers echoing around Santa’s grotto in Westfield.
The backdrop for the jolly fellow in red is clearly not North Pole, more scaffold pole, with contractors climbing over the travelators in very un-elf-like costumes.
No need for aerobics classes before eating your festive fill, climb up the scaffold supported stairway to the food court and take in the Christmas ambience.
