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 Istagi
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Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:12 pm Post subject: question for a friend |
 
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I am asking a question for a friend. He thinks that not many people would know Icarus.
second post your thoughts as to a business named Icarus Management. What is your first thought?
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 JadedTitan 
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Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:19 pm Post subject: |
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Well Icarus is known for 'failed ambition' so I don't think that would be a good name for a company...
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maddy
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Gert
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Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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Jade's and maddy's comments were also my first thoughts. |
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 irincou
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Still Icarus symbolizes the young man's arrogance and ambition to do anything!! No limits to Icarus! That is how his name is known here in Greece "no limits"! He lacks wisdom of age that's all! So his flying that high to melt his wax wings was not fair... We have a whole sea named after him Icarion Sea! The sea he fell into when falling from the sky! Icarus never got old to "know" ! His father Daedalus made it with the same kind of wings but no one remembers him for this flight!
Ikarus is considered a good name for a company! High goals with no stopping no matter what! Despite the outcome Icarus's flight was worth it while it lasted! |
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 masked_platypus
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Thu Mar 31, 2011 1:43 am Post subject: |
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Icarus for me sounds like a young fool who believes he can do anything but failed cause he's gone too far. I wouldn't trust an "Icarus Management" personnaly.
btw, welcome on SST, irincou!
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 molossus
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Thu Mar 31, 2011 1:48 am Post subject: |
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I know Hungarian city buses named Ikarus. They were very popular in Polish cities in 1980s and 1990s.
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irincou
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| I know Hungarian city buses named Ikarus. |
we have the same buses in Greece!!! I think they were imported here from Hungary!!
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| btw, welcome on SST, irincou! |
Thank you m_p I have been here a long time but never wrote in an SST forum before! |
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Fri Apr 01, 2011 6:35 am Post subject: |
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I agree with those above who point out that it's probably not best for a business name. If Icarus' father's name were more memorable I'd go with that.
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 SiriusCreations
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Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:39 am Post subject: |
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| j2brown wrote: |
| If Icarus' father's name were more memorable I'd go with that. |
For those who watched Stargate Atlantis the father's name is memorable 
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Gert
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Fri Apr 01, 2011 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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| For those who watched Stargate Atlantis the father's name is memorable |
Yep. And I agree again with those who feel the name Icarus evokes a sense of inexperience and over-confidence. That said, I don't know if Daedalus would be as recognizable here (if Istagi's friend is in the U.S.). |
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masked_platypus
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Not sure abour dedalus name neither. He is well-known for creating labyrinth in which you can never escape. Is that a good way to be manage?
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irincou
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Daedalus name is connected to complications! In Greece we would never pick such a name for a company as we use the word to describe difficulties, complications and adventure in labyrinths both literary and metaphorically.
I don't know what the company seeking a name deals with... but there is another ancient Greek name connected to flight and the SUN and that is Faethon! That is the sun's son riding on a chariot flying on the sky all day!! |
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