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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

Also, a hairdresser's down the road from my house called Edward Scissorhands, and theres a bed n bath chain here called Holy Sheet! which I think is grand.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 27 November 2003 02:41 (twenty years ago) link

where's donut bitch? he promised me photos of vancouver's most popular vietnamese restaurant: "Pho Bich Nga"

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 27 November 2003 02:57 (twenty years ago) link

oh! and that construction company in melbourne called Hooker Cockram!

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 27 November 2003 03:14 (twenty years ago) link

Also the real estate agents LJ Hooker, Phil! Did you ever see their ads with the little girl saying "thank you, mister hooker!"

It still weirds me out, after all these years. Especially because their theme tune is "Nobody Does It Better".

Aaaaaaargh.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 27 November 2003 03:19 (twenty years ago) link

i missed that actually, but i certainly noticed that Australian cheese company, "Coon"

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 27 November 2003 03:24 (twenty years ago) link

There used to be a chicken joint called Cluck-U-Chicken.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 27 November 2003 03:30 (twenty years ago) link

Lawyers in UK called Cheetham & Steel

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 27 November 2003 04:01 (twenty years ago) link

Gas company in Autralia called Analgas

Scrap company in Australia called Ausscrap

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 27 November 2003 04:02 (twenty years ago) link

Not the name, but the motto, emblazoned beneath a pic of a giant cow-head on their trucks:

Culver City Meat Co. : You Can't Beat Our Meat!

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 27 November 2003 04:05 (twenty years ago) link

Where in hell is "Analgas" Colin?!? gotta be a NSW thing ;)

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 27 November 2003 04:16 (twenty years ago) link

Sisyphus Light Hauling. My godfather (not Italian) gave money to a PBS drive just so they'd put that company name on the "funded by" list they occasionally show whenever there are drives.

― soylent greenberg (soylent greenberg), Thursday, 27 November 2003 06:09 (twenty years ago) link

pipe dreams - bathroom fixtures (somewhere in london, possibly near gloucester road)

― youn, Thursday, 27 November 2003 07:25 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.chronickingdom.com/images/pho.jpg

Gotta love the rain on the camera lens. So Vancouver.

A friend of mine started a furniture re-upholstery business called Fully Recovered.

― David A. (Davant), Thursday, 27 November 2003 07:48 (twenty years ago) link

Hernia Movers Inc.

― Cameron (Cameron), Thursday, 27 November 2003 07:49 (twenty years ago) link

down the road from me there are funeral directors called Reeves & Pain.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 27 November 2003 10:32 (twenty years ago) link

I saw lots of good company names when I lived in Hong Kong, i.e. Wang King Laundry. I've got a book filled with pictures of amusing company signs somewhere, I'll dig it out and scan some of them in when I get a free moment.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 27 November 2003 10:42 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.engrish.com has loads, tho I'm sure everyone knew this already.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 27 November 2003 10:46 (twenty years ago) link

I saw the Kebab Snatch too, Suzy!

Johnny English Potatoes & Melons (opposite Green Lanes Sainsbury's). Mmm, catchy.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 27 November 2003 21:43 (twenty years ago) link

'thistle do nicely', for souvenirs on edinburgh's high street.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 27 November 2003 22:56 (twenty years ago) link

Madchen, the next time I see Sarah Lucas I'm so telling her about it.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 27 November 2003 23:03 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/A/anatomy_disgust/images/lucas.jpg

Ladies and gents I give you 'Two Eggs And A Kebab'

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 27 November 2003 23:05 (twenty years ago) link

I really wish I carried my digi camera around with me more often.

Today on the way to work I saw a van, a pest control company proudly labelled W.R. GAY PEST CONTROL.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 27 November 2003 23:58 (twenty years ago) link

The Millenium Kebab Saloon in Northampton. Kebabylon in Leeds.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 28 November 2003 00:02 (twenty years ago) link

it's funny when businesses make big signs and misspell words on them.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 28 November 2003 00:15 (twenty years ago) link

I am not being blamed for bad spelling at midnight.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 28 November 2003 00:22 (twenty years ago) link

I can barely fucking see.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 28 November 2003 00:23 (twenty years ago) link

there's a law firm called Trebilcocks in melbourne

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 28 November 2003 00:23 (twenty years ago) link

There is a big office building off of interstate 275 in Cincinnatti out by the airport for a company called "Wild Flavors", which has a really cool logo.

I looked them up, they make artifical flavoring, coloring and the like, probably for a bunch of Procter & Gamble companies in that area.

http://www.wildflavors.com/

― earlnash, Friday, 28 November 2003 00:38 (twenty years ago) link

We register domain names here as part of what we do. I had to do one a while ago for Nudie. WTF, everyone thought it was some adult site.

But its for a new juice brand called Nudie. *baffled face*.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 28 November 2003 00:39 (twenty years ago) link

nudie rox man!!

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 28 November 2003 00:40 (twenty years ago) link

hair salon in Glasgow - "hairdo shop"

― jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 28 November 2003 00:43 (twenty years ago) link

also i've seen "touching cloth" in brick lane too - thats classic!

― jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 28 November 2003 00:44 (twenty years ago) link

LAFF LAFF !@#$%!

my coworker loves "Pho Bich Nga" :)

― sucka (sucka), Friday, 28 November 2003 02:37 (twenty years ago) link

Bich must be a reasonably common Viet word tho - theres a something bich something bakery down the road from me at work. I'll get a photo next week. And one of Holy Sheet! cos I think its cute.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 28 November 2003 02:45 (twenty years ago) link

Bich is a common girl's name in Vietnam (I went to school with a total Bich).

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 28 November 2003 08:53 (twenty years ago) link

'Abrakebabra' in Dublin. They served me the worst kebab I have ever had.

― neil simpson (neil simpson), Friday, 28 November 2003 09:23 (twenty years ago) link

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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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