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the best company names you've ever come across...

― ken c, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 11:53 (twenty years ago) link

there's a scaffolding company called "Pole Position"

― ken c, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 11:54 (twenty years ago) link

there was a furniture shop in Bristol called Sofa So Good.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 11:54 (twenty years ago) link

Tan-Fastic.

It has since closed down.

(*cries*)

(*becomes paler*)

(*cries*)

― neil simpson (neil simpson), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 11:57 (twenty years ago) link

In the eighties I remember seeing posters for a firm of plumbers called Drips which ended, "Sadly, not all plumbers are Drips".

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 12:00 (twenty years ago) link

Car dealership in Edinburgh called 'Wheels' (i.e "Don't buy a car without Wheels").

― neil simpson (neil simpson), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 12:01 (twenty years ago) link

We've got a Tanfastic over here, Neil! Granted, locally you wouldn't really need it nine months out of the year, but it's still a Tanfastic.

Oh yes, and Engrish.com to thread!

― Tenacious Dee (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 12:03 (twenty years ago) link

I Can't Believe It's A Law Firm!

Clumsy Student Removals

Painful Memories Party Supplies

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 12:05 (twenty years ago) link

more Simpsons gems:

Broken Home Chimney Repair
International House Of Answering Machines
Girdles 'N Such - Fancy Lingerie
All Creatures Great And Cheap

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 12:09 (twenty years ago) link

Working in directory enquiries means you can look up all sorts of fun company names...

A favourite of all of us here in DQ has got to be a Chinese restaurant in Chelsea called "Phat Phuc". Oddly enough, we've yet to find anyone who's actually been asked for it, but we do use it for test calls just to see what the reaction of the operators is.

― Rob M (Rob M), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 12:13 (twenty years ago) link

Vampire penguins must die limited - the joys of working for companies house.

― leigh (leigh), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 12:14 (twenty years ago) link

I dunno what it was named, but Police Squad had "that 24 hour Wicker place."

― sucka (sucka), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 12:14 (twenty years ago) link

what's so funny about a restaurant that's pronounced Pat Puc? ;o)

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 12:18 (twenty years ago) link

A van drove past us on the way to work today with the word "Munters" emblazoned on the side.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 12:48 (twenty years ago) link

French Gerleman--this name always makes me think of the snl skit with dana carvey and kevin nealon.

― Elle (elle), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 13:43 (twenty years ago) link

I saw an exterminator truck in California drive by. It was a little truck with the name written in Olde English-type writing. It said "The Old Bugger"

― Octothorpe (Octothorpe), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 13:44 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, and I saw a delivery van yesterday here in NYC: "Pleasurable Delivery"

― Octothorpe (Octothorpe), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 13:45 (twenty years ago) link

Shoe shop on the King's Road - R. Soles (not sure if it's still there though)

― Jonathan Z., Wednesday, 26 November 2003 13:46 (twenty years ago) link

We have a pine furniture shop in Didcot called Pine-demonium.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 13:50 (twenty years ago) link

R Soles is still there, just looked it up.

― Rob M (Rob M), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 13:54 (twenty years ago) link

my friend's parents own the building that pine shop occupies, Johnney B. They used to have an antiques shop there.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 14:02 (twenty years ago) link

Wang

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 14:18 (twenty years ago) link

Nando Chicken's delivery vans have a slogan that says "Poultry in motion"

― ken c, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 14:25 (twenty years ago) link

In the Washington area I've seen a truck for Peed Plumbing. The first time I saw it I went right up to the truck to make sure I was wasn't misreading "Reed."

Then there A.G. Prada Air Conditioning Maintenance. I can just picture some label-whore types going, "Oh, I have a Prada air conditioner repairman!"

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 14:32 (twenty years ago) link

possibly an urban myth, but the roving kebab vendor:

jason's donner van

― enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 14:33 (twenty years ago) link

We have Weed Man here (a weed control company). Here's what their trucks look like.

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 14:35 (twenty years ago) link

greengrocers in Newport called 'MelonCaulie'
chinese takeaway in Leicester called 'Wok This Way'
all those awful hairdressers called things like 'Curl Up and Dye'
a shop in Newport that sold nothing but fireplaces called 'Flaming Grates'

oh, you wanted best. oops.

― zappi (joni), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 15:11 (twenty years ago) link

Opticians in Hyndland, Glasgow = Hyndsight.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 15:25 (twenty years ago) link

One of my agency's clients is a portapotty company called Johnny On the Spot.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 15:27 (twenty years ago) link

I will hear nothing against "Flaming Grates" in Newport, they did a superb job installing a new boiler for me last week. We took the staff a big box of Roses to say thank you.

"Melon Cauli" is in Great Barr, can't find one in Newport.

― Rob M (Rob M), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 15:46 (twenty years ago) link

i hope there's a "Great Barr" in Great Barr.

― ken c, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 15:49 (twenty years ago) link

Not company names, but instead the names of special lunch offers seen recently:

At the petrol station: Tuck & Chuck, £2.49. If I chucked after I tucked I think I'd want a refund.

On Uxbridge Road: £1.99 KEBAB SNATCH. Oh dearie me.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 15:52 (twenty years ago) link

i'm going to start a buffet store one day with the slogan

Chu's - more than you can eat

either that or I'll stick with "Getting Pissed Off Licence"

― k chu, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:01 (twenty years ago) link

'Touching Cloth'

Fabric shop on Brick Lane

― MikeB, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:14 (twenty years ago) link

right by the curry houses as well..

i have yet to see a curry house with a punny name.. chinese takeaway names however are amazingly punnable mostly revolving around woks.

There's a chinese restaurant unfortunately called "The Queen of Ming"

― ken c, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:17 (twenty years ago) link

never been to Balti Towers then?

― ds, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:31 (twenty years ago) link

wahey!

― ken c, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:35 (twenty years ago) link

I'll always be a big fan of Grimsby's stellar "Popular takeaway", which, iirc, was situated just down the road from Kerr-Ching Pine furniture.

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:37 (twenty years ago) link

let's not forget this review of the Oxo Tower:

"When my boyfriend told me he wanted to take me up the Oxo Tower for my birthday, I was a bit hesitant at first because I didn't really think it was my scene. How wrong I was! I mean, yeah, so it's a bit of a strain on the old back pocket, and I admit I did feel a bit uncomfortable initially. But a couple of cocktails helped me relax and soon I was really getting into it - we carried on well into the night. It was a great experience and I really loved it - so much so that I won't let my boyfriend take me anywhere else now! So if anyone ever wants to take you up the Oxo Tower, just throw caution to the wind and go for it! "

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:42 (twenty years ago) link

Not a company name as such, but when I was in Nice recently with friends we were taken aback at the site of a clothing company's van that bore the (English language) slogan 'A FIST FUCKING COMPANY'.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 18:06 (twenty years ago) link

Prince Telecom

― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 18:08 (twenty years ago) link

'sight' not 'site', idiocy spotting fans.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 18:12 (twenty years ago) link

Sighted in Krakow -

fashion boutique - Eva Minge

sports shop - The Athlete's Foot

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 18:13 (twenty years ago) link

When filling out software registration cards, I often claim to be employed by the Discount Pet Warehouse.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 18:17 (twenty years ago) link

sports shop - The Athlete's Foot

We have these in the US -- pretty popular chain that's been around since the '70s.

http://www.theathletesfoot.com/corp/index.jsp

― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 18:19 (twenty years ago) link

What's the name of that furniture shop on Trafalgar Road in Greenwich - NO IKEA, isn't it?

― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 18:37 (twenty years ago) link

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― robin (robin), Thursday, 27 November 2003 02:33 (twenty years ago) link

in real life,theres one of those shops that always changes owners in dublin,it recently went from "soup opera" to "deli-sh"

― robin (robin), Thursday, 27 November 2003 02:35 (twenty years ago) link

So Fresh and So Clean'ers, 9631 Venice Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Thursday, 27 November 2003 02:36 (twenty years ago) link

Theres a store in Melbourne called the Big Duck 'n Fish Company. I was rather puzzled until I noticed what it sells.

Large plates. Boom, and indeed, boom.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 27 November 2003 02:39 (twenty years ago) link

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maybe it's lube for Finnish summer camp instructors

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.transcender.com/images/transtop_logo.gif

Is it weird that "Exam Preparation Software" is not the first thing that comes to mind when I see this company's name?

― ianinportland (ianinportland), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/badhair.html

― caek (caek), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

i like the sandwich shop in glasgow called Roland Butter

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link

and also the cafe called The Rumbling Tum

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

So the rape plan is KY?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.dnr.mo.gov/env/swmp/facilities/chris.htm

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I require their services.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/157/359987975_4025f03b43.jpg

― patita (patita), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Heluva Good Cheese

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 25 January 2007 00:25 (seventeen years ago) link

The Ash Wipe chimney sweeps had a phone number one number off from my number as a kid. As you can imagine we got wrong numbers, "hey is this the ash wipes?" Or at least I have convinced myself these were "wrong numbers". BTW they're still in business at ashwipes.com.

― drench (drench), Thursday, 25 January 2007 01:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Lower East Side / West Village fish n chip shop called "A Salt & Battery"

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 25 January 2007 01:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Correction: ASHWIPE.COM

― drench (drench), Thursday, 25 January 2007 01:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Eurotard

― svend (svend), Thursday, 25 January 2007 01:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Toxic Black Mold Discovery in Monroe, GA---- it's the specificity that cracks me up

― emilys. (emilys.), Thursday, 25 January 2007 04:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I got a magazine from these people before their name became an internet joke, but I still nominate...the Official Meeting and Facilities Guide, or...
http://www.omfg.com/

― Rebel.yell.For.Internet.cakes (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 January 2007 04:32 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.fhhk.com/eng/info.html

― pabs (Pablo A), Thursday, 25 January 2007 04:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Dong Key, a Chinese and other Asian restaurant on Broadway (Chicago).

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 05:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Apropos of Tuomas' thread revival, there is of course
http://www.therapistfinder.com/

This Lake Tahoe tourist site might also have been able to choose a better name/url...

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

every time i'm riding the bus on wilshire i see a sign for a business called "masters realty" -- which i always read as "masters of reality."

― tom mix-a-lot (get bent), Friday, 26 January 2007 06:20 (seventeen years ago) link

"ICE CREAM"

Wait, did I meantion this was just white block stickers crooked on a tint-windowed minivan driven by an old man? Because that's kind of important.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Vampires Eat Christians (The GZeus), Friday, 26 January 2007 06:42 (seventeen years ago) link

here in austin there's a company called UK plumbers and on the side of their vans it says "the british are plumbing! the british are plumbing!" awesome.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 26 January 2007 07:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Houndstretcher - SW London dog-walking service

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/121/312099120_e89e5cb13f.jpg

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 26 January 2007 10:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Steve's Simpsons ones upthread made me remember Stern Lecture Plumbing, which always cracks me up.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 26 January 2007 11:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Suite Dreams - Sofa Shop in Bellshill

Get Your Dome Done - I kid you not, a hairdressers in Paisley.

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Friday, 26 January 2007 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link

four years pass...

There's this outdoor/trekking/camping chain of stores over here in Belgium that's called A.S. Adventure : http://www.asadventure.com

I can't help reading the name as "a sad venture" every time I see one of their stores or advertisements.

― StanM, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link

Oh, and it's not intentional either: the A.S. stands for "American Stockhouse" = the store they started with originally.

― StanM, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 19:59 (thirteen years ago) link

analtech

http://www.mediashow.ro/show/265347-3/analtech.jpg

― Space // Funk (Pillbox), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link

I can't stop laughing at "It's Curtains For You"; it works on so many levels

― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link

Beaver Employment

― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link

Hooker Cockram

― moley, Thursday, 10 March 2011 04:09 (thirteen years ago) link

Dunno if I said this but always used to laugh when i'm in one of schindler's lifts, seemingly a market leader.

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 10 March 2011 05:51 (thirteen years ago) link

Every time i pass this place it makes me smile
http://lds.localdataimages.com/large/1219/12196488.jpg

― not_goodwin, Thursday, 10 March 2011 08:21 (thirteen years ago) link

http://logisticsweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Renault_Premium-Norbert_Dentressangle_B-2002.jpg

― Cluster the boots (Billy Dods), Thursday, 10 March 2011 09:24 (thirteen years ago) link

I used to pass this place whenever I drove to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, visible from an elevated section of Autoroute 40:

http://citynoise.org/upload/9890.jpg

For years I figured that must mean something in French, but had no idea what. Evidently, they sold multilith printing presses made by A B Dick Co.

I'm saddened to learn they went out of business in 2006 and the building no longer stands.

― Lee626, Thursday, 10 March 2011 11:42 (thirteen years ago) link

Oops I miseed S1ocki's post who already noted this one. But there's the pic....

There's a local plumbing business named (i assume) for its founder, John Flood. I cannot think of a worse name for a plumber than John Flood.

There must be some good company names around here but can't think of them at this moment...

― Lee626, Thursday, 10 March 2011 12:14 (thirteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Passed a sign pointing towards this shop and my gast was flabbered:

http://www.p8ntball.be/

― StanM, Sunday, 17 June 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link

^ Oh man, that's super annoying.

I saw a truck on a Toronto highway painted with the company name 'Camel Towing'. Did not have a camera.

― franny glass, Sunday, 17 June 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link

There's a massage place in Atlanta that proudly advertises on billboards saying "The Rub Club".

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 17 June 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link

chip shop in preston called "king kod".

― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 17 June 2012 17:19 (eleven years ago) link

seven months pass...

Not a company name, but a local department store is selling a lamp called Massive Fanny!

― Tuomas, Monday, 4 February 2013 12:08 (eleven years ago) link

Sun of a Beach tanning salon

― ledge, Monday, 4 February 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link

http://nakedphilly.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/IMG_2706-560x420.jpg

― slam dunk, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 06:27 (eleven years ago) link

four months pass...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, usually shortened to PNAS.

― go cray cray on my lobster soufflé (snoball), Friday, 21 June 2013 08:00 (ten years ago) link

Heh. I work for that company, but in the office it is always pronounced pee en ay ess, even though many other acronyms are given the phonetic treatment.

― how's life, Friday, 21 June 2013 11:26 (ten years ago) link

one year passes...

Si Senior, a company that adapts houses for the elderly. (in Dutch, senior sounds exactly the same as the Spanish señor)

― StanM, Sunday, 19 October 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link

two years pass...

http://i.imgur.com/yBZhrJk.jpg

is Capital Teas the only business name with a triple meaning?

1. excellent teas
2. the uppercase letter T
3. teas sold in the vicinity of the United States capital

― I Ville Valo HIM (unregistered), Monday, 13 March 2017 01:16 (seven years ago) link

(...and/or the capital of Maryland)

― I Ville Valo HIM (unregistered), Monday, 13 March 2017 01:18 (seven years ago) link

er, that's the United States Capitol you're probably thinking of

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Monday, 13 March 2017 05:27 (seven years ago) link

er, no, if I'd been thinking of the capitol building (rather than D.C. in general), I would have used the word "capitol"

― I Ville Valo HIM (unregistered), Monday, 13 March 2017 06:54 (seven years ago) link

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