BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names

Subject: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 17 Jul 08 - 03:25 PM

I think the last thread on a similar subject was mostly brewing companies and wineries.

Last Friday I had a student driver pull around Lee Traffic Circle in front of me so I was able to read the logo on the car door -- Pale Rider Driving School.

To make it even better, the NH tag was " -- MYBAD -- ".

I love it when someone in a serious line of business has a sense of humor! (They probably need it to keep their sanity!)

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: GUEST,Zen
Date: 17 Jul 08 - 03:33 PM

UK Solicitors (Lawyers) firm....

Wright Hassel & Co

Zen

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jul 08 - 07:54 PM

There was a restaurnat on University Ave, named 'Little Taste'.
It closed

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: Alice
Date: 17 Jul 08 - 08:11 PM

My favorite was in the movie the Blues Brothers.
Beauty salon sign... "Curl Up & Dye".

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Jul 08 - 08:20 PM

The Critter Burger
5157 Highway 10
New Germany, Nova Scotia Canada
B0R 1E0

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Jul 08 - 08:23 PM

"Looking for a "Lick A Chick"franchise opportunity?


http://www.atyp.com/aklickachick/

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Jul 08 - 08:27 PM

The Seaweed Pie Café
Miminegash, PEI, Canada

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Jul 08 - 08:29 PM

http://www.clickwinegroup.com/fatbastard/

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: bobad
Date: 17 Jul 08 - 08:40 PM

A fictitious (but funny) sponsor of NPR's Car Talk program; the law firm of Dewey, Cheatham and Howe.

A fish shop in my home town, the proprietor of which was (quite appropriately) named Richard Sole, had a sign in the window which read; R.Sole's Fresh Fish.

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: Uncle Phil
Date: 17 Jul 08 - 08:52 PM

The biggest realtor in Longview, Texas is Beer-Wells. Come to think of it that not funny, that's a damn fine idea. The biggest realtor in Baton Rouge, Louisiana when I was growing up was Gulley and Poor, not a great name for a real estate broker.
- Phil
http://www.beerwells.com/

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: frogprince
Date: 17 Jul 08 - 10:11 PM

A little cafe in Chicago opened as "No Place Special", with a sub line something like "just good food". I was a bit disappointed to see that they had already folded when I discovered them.

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Jul 08 - 10:13 PM

A true and legitimate business up the road a ways, near Vail: Beaver Liquors. Fun tshirts!

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: frogprince
Date: 17 Jul 08 - 10:23 PM

Wut's so funny about that, Kat?...







hee, hee, hee....

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 17 Jul 08 - 11:08 PM

A fish & chip shop

The Codfather



A takeaway burger joint

The Taik Hawaii

(try a nasal whine...)

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 18 Jul 08 - 12:19 AM

There's a chain of shops in Britain that specializes in brass door hardware. It's called Knobs & Knockers.

There's a takeaway hamburger place in Hove, East Sussex, called Burger Off.

There are real beauty salons called Curl Up & Dye in Las Vegas, Chicago, Birmingham (UK), and probably lots more. My wife goes to this one in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: Alice
Date: 18 Jul 08 - 12:36 AM

Real business here,
Bangtail Bikes
actually named after the Bangtail Divide, a ridge where there is a trail, looking down into our valley. You can see photos from the Bangtail divide here:
Bangtail divide to Ross peak

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: Rowan
Date: 18 Jul 08 - 02:54 AM

A retail outlet for house paints, in Melbourne in the 70s, was called "The Paintbox" but the one I liked best was in Victoria St North Melbourne, just up the hill from the Queen Vic Market; it was a sex aids shop with the sign "The Jolly Roger - Pornbrokers to the Gentry!"

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: Paul Burke
Date: 18 Jul 08 - 03:21 AM

There used to be a greasy spoon in Sheffield called Sam and Ella's.

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: Newport Boy
Date: 18 Jul 08 - 03:30 AM

Estate Agents in Newport (S Wales) - Crook & Blight.

Phil

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 18 Jul 08 - 05:04 AM

I believe that there was either a firm of solicitors or estate agents in Sheffield - Dalley and Doolittle.

When setting tutorial questions I would occasionally posit a firm : Gettingham Downe Quigley.

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: GUEST,CrazyEddie
Date: 18 Jul 08 - 05:30 AM

In Dubai there was a driving school called "Kharbash Motoring"

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 18 Jul 08 - 05:47 AM

Not a company but there used to be a dentist in Weymouth, Dorset, called I Savage.

There was also a Doctor Payne.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: The Walrus
Date: 18 Jul 08 - 05:48 AM

A friend of mine used to make the occasional garment/item for re-enactors, which he stamped with the makers mark "Norfolk & Goode".

W

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: Chris Green
Date: 18 Jul 08 - 06:01 AM

There's a company who make camping gear for re-enactors called Past Tents. And I used to live next door to a laundry called Wish You Wash Here.

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: gnomad
Date: 18 Jul 08 - 06:03 AM

Here's a picture of a famous brass plate that made my parents laugh like mad, it took me a few years to understand the joke (I was only about 12) but I understand that it is still there.

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: jonm
Date: 18 Jul 08 - 06:12 AM

A local mannequin supply company is called Dummies for Windows.

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: Leadfingers
Date: 18 Jul 08 - 06:34 AM

There used to be a Second Hand (Used Articles of ALL kinds) down the road from me called Junk and Disorderley .

And in Greys Inn Road , a Fast Food outlet called Sam Wedges !

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 18 Jul 08 - 06:44 AM

Hairdressers in Lancashire..."Curl up and Dye"

Solicitor in Nottingham.....Rupert Bear.

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: Zen
Date: 18 Jul 08 - 06:44 AM

Retro clothes shop in Brussels...

Look 50

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: Becca72
Date: 18 Jul 08 - 10:06 AM

There is also a "Curl up & Dye" hair salon in Old Orchard Beach, Maine.

I like the Port-a-potty company here called Blow Brothers. Their logo is "We're #1 in the #2 business"

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Jul 08 - 10:32 AM

There used to be a hearse parked outside of a beauty salon in Casper, WY with the following slogan painted on it: We'll curl up and dye for you!

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: curmudgeon
Date: 18 Jul 08 - 01:03 PM

In Kingston, NH - Bump and Grind Auto Body

In a forgotten Maine town - Weed It and Reap Garden Shop

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 18 Jul 08 - 01:24 PM

My podiatrist's name is Dr. Foote

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: GUEST,Neil D
Date: 18 Jul 08 - 01:47 PM

Paine and Paine Chiropractics

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 18 Jul 08 - 09:11 PM

Weed It and Reap Garden Shop was in Biddeford, Maine. My favorite antique shop name used to be in Portland, Maine -- Remains To Be Seen.

I think there was a junk/architectural salvage place between Augusta, Maine and Belfast, Maine named something like "Honey Look What I Found!"

When I was a kid, the local dentist a couple blocks away with offices upstairs from the Rexall Pharmacy was Dr. Boozer. I still might have his business card around someplace.

Oh, back in the '90s there was a B&B in Chester, Vermont named Night With A Native.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: Nick
Date: 18 Jul 08 - 09:19 PM

I have a photo of an estate agent in France called Mr Bastard

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: The Walrus
Date: 18 Jul 08 - 09:37 PM

There is (or was) a Chinese takeaway in the Teddington area (possibly one of a chain) called "Wok this Way"

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: Alice
Date: 18 Jul 08 - 11:31 PM

Local beauty salons:
The Klip Joint
Hair It Is
Hair To Please
The Upper Cut

bed and breakfast accomodations:
Burnt Out Lodge

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Jul 08 - 12:26 AM

We've got one here called Hair Raisers.

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 19 Jul 08 - 05:11 AM

Glenwood Springs, Colorado, 2nd hand store 'First Class Trash' another in Co, 'Upscale Resale'

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: Becca72
Date: 19 Jul 08 - 07:09 AM

The original name of the salon my sister works in was 'The Hair Force' (it's been changed to Belissimo, though).

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: Irene M
Date: 19 Jul 08 - 11:04 AM

Does anyone else remember the store front in Leith Walk in Edinburgh about 30 years ago called "Heynes Eggs"?
I never ventured in, but as you can see, the name stuck in my mind.

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: Alice
Date: 19 Jul 08 - 11:16 AM

A thrift store in our town was called Sacks Thrift Avenue.
Funds supported the crisis suicide hotline and help center.
Sax Fifth Ave tracked them down in this little Montana town and made them stop using the name, even though it was spelled a little differently. Now it is just called Sacks.

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: Anne Lister
Date: 19 Jul 08 - 11:22 AM

I've had fish and chips from the Codfather, but our personal relatively local favourites are "Your Plaice or Mine" and "A Fish called Rhondda" ..which was, of course, in the Rhondda valley.

Anne

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 19 Jul 08 - 12:33 PM

If you're interested in made-up names, there's always The Den of Antiquity. And Framers of the Lost Art.

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: Micca
Date: 19 Jul 08 - 02:25 PM

Theres a shop in Whitechapel Road London called "Butts Wholesale"
I also so an Indian (Asian) shop in London Called the "New Delhi catessen.

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 19 Jul 08 - 02:53 PM

A few years ago, driving through a little town in Indiana, it gave me a double-take to see the sign: Brooks Tux Rental and Mortuary

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Funny & Appropriate Company Names
From: MaineDog
Date: 19 Jul 08 - 03:44 PM

Gail's surgeon was Dr. Paine.
I told him we'd rather have Dr Feelgood.
He said "you probably will .. later"
MD