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Great names for portable-toilet companies You have to be real wiz to compete in the portable-toilet market these days, given some of the inventive company names out there. New York magazine has done the dirty work for us and compiled a list of the top 20 unfortunately named portable-toilet companies. They include: Loader-Up Inc., Oui Oui Enterprises Ltd., and Willy Make It? Photo by Andrew Adam Newman. —Posted by Tim Nudd

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They didn't include my favorite : Job-Time John

Posted by: angie h | Mar 6, 2007 7:55:34 PM

And I think we can safely assume that none of these companies engaged the services of Landor or one of the other "branding companies" that charge millions of dollars to come up with "memorable" names like Accenture.

Posted by: Tangerine Toad | Mar 7, 2007 11:35:12 AM

Can anyone confirm or deny that after one company called their portapotties "Here's Johnny," Johnny Carson successfully sued to get them to stop?

Posted by: Landor, The Warrior | Mar 9, 2007 2:13:17 PM

There's another one in Toronto, Canada, called "It's My Potty".

Posted by: swim nymph | Mar 10, 2007 8:23:01 PM

And I'll pee if I want to, pee if I want to.
You would pee, too, if it happened to you!

Posted by: Johnny Angel | Mar 13, 2007 1:08:20 PM

Given my name I am available as a mascot for any US toilet company - though Loader-up seems a near physical impossibility when related to scatological processes.
I'm not beautiful, I'm not young, I'm not rich but i do crap - and my wife claims I often speak it.

Posted by: john loader | Apr 4, 2007 3:47:08 AM

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