Sick is a well-known sensor company.
I once met a fella who decided to name his firm “The Minor Corporation.” He decided to name it after himself, and his last name was Minor. (Fella, if ever there was a time to rein in your ego, that was it.)
I guess this is more of an unfortunate choice of profession than a poor choice of business name, but about ten years ago I had to have ingrown toenail surgery on my big toe. My HMO referred me to their local podiatrist. His name: Dr. Michetti. :eek:
I was more than a little nervous, let me tell you.
About 15 years ago, the office I worked in got their 1st PC with a CD-ROM drive and had purchased a telephone directory on CD to use for research. During idle times, we’d use the search feature to surf for popular names. One day, a search for the name “Klutz” returned a business named “Klutz Well Drilling”.
Here in SF there’s a big construction firm called “Sheedy Construction”.
My buddy and I riff on this one all the time.
“Another Sheedy job!”
“We’ve got Sheedy tools, Sheedy materials and Sheedy employees!”
I’m giggling like a schoolkid as I type this.
When I was a kid my pediatrician (a wonderful, kind doctor) was named “Doctor Payne”. Not what a 6 year old wants to hear when they’re about to get a shot.
Every day on my way to and from work I drive by a little shopping plaza. In the plaza there is a Chinese restaurant that is called Chinese Food. It’s located right next to a beer store called Beer and a diner called Diner.
I used to pass a place called Tapeworm Videos on my way to work.
They must be Public Image Ltd. fans.
There are two companies, locally, that fit this thread. One is OK Monuments, located near the hospital and cemetary. In my head I keep hearing: “OK Monuments. For when Aunt Betty didn’t leave you as much as you’d hoped.”
And even if it is your family name, and you’re delivering respiratory therapy equipment, please do not put “Butte Therapy” in big letters on your van. Caught out of the corner of the eye in traffic, no one will ever see that letter ‘e’. The mental image still troubles me and makes me giggle.
In southwest Florida there is T&A produce. Yes, I believe they have melons.
Buffalo, New York is home to both Amigone Funeral Home and Bury Funeral Home.
I’ve seen photos of different New York City neighborhoods showing JFK Fried Chicken stores.
My trip to work years ago took me past a restaurant called Restaurant. It’s long gone, but it sounds like they moved to your location and diversified.
Not to mention the Walden Galleria. Which, granted, is in the Walden district, but geesh, yeah, when I hear the word “Walden”, I automatically think of shopping malls. :smack:
There’s a cell phone company here called Virtually Wireless.
Literally? 
Loved seeing those Kum ‘n’ Go places over in Iowa and Kansas…
French Liquors - saw in French Lick, Indiana
There’s a local concrete cutting company called “Penetrations.” Complete with a logo that features pink puffy letters–it’s really special!
I’ve always been a bit :dubious: about Mighty Tool, especially after I saw one of their trucks displaying the following motto: “It takes a MIGHTY tool to please a pro!” Definitely one from the “no shit?” file!
Maybe everyone’s seen this before, but I live in Massachusetts, home of Bunghole Liquors.
http://www.bungholeliquors.com/history/history/history-of-bung-hole-liquors.html
Not far from my old apartment is a laundry called The Laundry. I figured it must be where No. 6 did his wash.
Down in Tom’s River, NJ is a Chinese restaurant called Hey Birds. I figure it must be a bad translation, or sometjhing. It makes me start thinking of the Beatles song “Hey Jude.”
“Hey Birds
Don’t be afraid
Take an egg roll
And make it be-e-e-e-ter.”
There’s something about a restaurant called Shalom Hunan that cracks me up.
I used to work down the street from Payne Furniture.
There used to be a business in my town whose name was Enervations. They sold pricey household gadgets similar to those sold by The Sharper Image.
I was tempted to call them up and say “That word: I do not think it means what you think it means.”