Here in Portland we have a great coffeehouse, where patrons are treated to classical music. It's called Rimsky Korsakoffee.When I used to do market research, we often used the corporate 1000 book for reference. One corporate name that always gave me a chuckle was the "Limerick Generating Station." Yeah, I know it was a power generation station in Limerick, Pennsylvania, but I couldn't help picturing all these employees sitting in cubicles all day making up limericks!
There was also a "Peach Bottom Atomic Energy" corporation or agency or something. [Do peaches have bottoms? Or maybe some bottoms are peach-colored.]
Joe F., my aunt from Kentucky [Lexington, I think] once told me that in their town they had had a law firm [or it may have been a car dealership] by the name of Cheatham and Crook. Jim D., Click and Clack do, indeed, credit Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe as part of their consulting staff, but, as Spaw said, they didn't invent it. I remember hearing jokes about that law firm at least as far back as the '50s. Come to think of it, I seem to recall the Stooges using it, too.
I've known a doctor named Paine, a dentist named Chu [whose assistant was named Gumm], a clinical psychologist named Doctor, professors named Boring, and a minister named Sinn, and a few others I can't recall at the moment.
Genie