# \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ 'n' go: silly business names that try to seem more "convenient" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 29, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/________-n-go-silly-business-names-that-try-to-seem-more-convenient/451059 "2008-05-29T19:25:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/________-n-go-silly-business-names-that-try-to-seem-more-convenient/451059/41 "2008-05-31T14:28:45Z")
A friend was giving me directions to her home in Montana, _“We’re right next to the Town Pump.”_ I imagined people lined up with water buckets… 😕 ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/________-n-go-silly-business-names-that-try-to-seem-more-convenient/451059/42 "2008-05-31T16:47:04Z")
[QUOTE=Don’t fight the hypothetical] On Greenville? [/QUOTE] Northwest Highway and Central Expressway. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/________-n-go-silly-business-names-that-try-to-seem-more-convenient/451059/43 "2008-05-31T17:01:23Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **Thudlow Boink** > > What do they sell there? They sell dildos/vibrators\*, lube, condoms, and assorted novelty items (blow-up dolls, penis pumps, liberator mats\*\*, bachelorette party items, penis shaped pinatas and cake pans, etc.) \*Due to Texas law you cannot legally sell “sex toys” so everything in the store is advertised as a personal massager or a cake topper or other novelty item. \*\* http: //www. liberator .com/ ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/________-n-go-silly-business-names-that-try-to-seem-more-convenient/451059/44 "2008-05-31T17:07:15Z")
[QUOTE=pbbth] \*Due to Texas law you cannot legally sell “sex toys” so everything in the store is advertised as a personal massager or a cake topper or other novelty item. [/QUOTE] This reminds me of the head shop in Texas I saw way back when that stuck a filter-tipped cigarette in each of their bongs, demonstrating that they were for tobacco use only. As I’ve posted elsewhere on the Board, this " ‘n’ " business is a major pet peeve of mine. If the store owner is so uneducated he that cannot spell “and,” then I just don’t know what to say. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/________-n-go-silly-business-names-that-try-to-seem-more-convenient/451059/45 "2008-05-31T17:42:36Z")
[QUOTE=dalej42] There is a store in Dallas called Condoms to Go. I would certainly hope they were not available ‘for here.’ [/QUOTE] I was gonna post exactly the same thing about “Blinds to Go”. Who wants their blinds “here”? Yours is funnier (scarier?). ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/________-n-go-silly-business-names-that-try-to-seem-more-convenient/451059/46 "2008-05-31T18:40:17Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] Here’s one that always irritated me: Why is a business named _Reliable_ almost always a carpet cleaner? Were carpet cleaners once considered particularly shady? And doesn’t any other business pride itself on reliability? [/QUOTE] I constantly see commercials for [Reliable Exterminators.](http://www.callreliable.com/) The jingle features the “Call Reliable, 'cause their name says it all” line that appears on the linked page. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/________-n-go-silly-business-names-that-try-to-seem-more-convenient/451059/47 "2008-05-31T21:27:02Z")
Lexington, KY has (or had, at least) a small chain of really bad Chinese restaurants called Wok n’ Go. Their motto: “I know it’s only Wok 'n Go, but I like it!” ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/________-n-go-silly-business-names-that-try-to-seem-more-convenient/451059/48 "2008-05-31T21:43:51Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] I constantly see commercials for [Reliable Exterminators.](http://www.callreliable.com/) The jingle features the “Call Reliable, 'cause their name says it all” line that appears on the linked page. [/QUOTE] You wouldn’t call Unreliable Exterminators. You’d be afraid of seeing the guy out on the front steps, tokin’ a doob, pouring beer for the cockroaches in the cat’s dish. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/________-n-go-silly-business-names-that-try-to-seem-more-convenient/451059/49 "2008-05-31T22:31:19Z")
[QUOTE=DoctorJ] Lexington, KY has (or had, at least) a small chain of really bad Chinese restaurants called Wok n’ Go. Their motto: “I know it’s only Wok 'n Go, but I like it!” [/QUOTE] And nobody ever strung the owners up from a lamppost? ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/________-n-go-silly-business-names-that-try-to-seem-more-convenient/451059/50 "2008-06-01T22:32:02Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon] I’m amazed that chain called “In-N-Out Burger” ever got of the ground. Does the name not just basically say “Eat here and you’ll vomit soon afterwards”? I can’t understand how anyone would ever go in. Edit: **USCDiver** , that’s a [well-worn gag](http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=eat+here+get+gas&gbv=2). 🙂 [/QUOTE] When I was in high school in the 80s, all the cool kids had In n Out Burger bumperstickers on their binders. They’d cut out the B and the R from Burger, so it said: In N Out Urge You were NOT cool unless you had this on your binder. ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/________-n-go-silly-business-names-that-try-to-seem-more-convenient/451059/51 "2008-06-01T22:36:12Z")
[QUOTE=blondebear] A friend was giving me directions to her home in Montana, _“We’re right next to the Town Pump.”_ I imagined people lined up with water buckets… 😕 [/QUOTE] We had a town pump where I grew up. Except we moved away before I was old enough to go see her. _drum sting_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/________-n-go-silly-business-names-that-try-to-seem-more-convenient/451059.md?page=2)