Back when it was known as a red-light district (could still be, a bit, for all I know,) there was a sleazy-looking hotel south of the airport in Sarasota on US 41 which advertised “Low Rates”
It was the only thing on their letter-changable billboard. But they never changed the letters for years. Even when the “e” fell off and they were advertising “Low rat s”, which seemed appropriate at the time.
Saw one over the weekend. Somewhere near Lake Sunapee, NH, there’s a Live Wire Day Care. I’m sorry, but there’s just no good way to spin that.
Here in Amarillo there is a dry cleaning chain called Douche Cleaners.
May I suggest that you don’t try a google search to find them?
This one tickles me: Badcock & More
Someone actually named a store for larger women “Dress Barn Woman”?!! :eek:
Karson Kartage and Konstruction. That name always gets a big :dubious: from me.
“Badcock will treat you right!” Classic.
Today I went through one of Vancouver’s low-rent districts and passed Wet Wizard Used Books. I don’t know if this is a bad business name, but “wet” isn’t a quality I want to think of when I’m in the market for used books.
I’m not sure if there’s an explanation for the store name, but I think it might be a super-obscure literary reference. In Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea’s Illuminatus! trilogy, a classic bit of graffiti gets mixed up with a J.R.R. Tolkien quote, thusly:
Dress Barn is the parent chain, Dress Barn Woman is the plus-size format.
Well, it makes me think, “This woman is barn-sized! Let’s dress her!”
If you want to go the sign route, my friends once took the “G” from the Burger King sign. No, not from “Burger King”, but the marquee that read: “Try our new cheesy bacon angus!”
At least it’s not Badcock 'n More.
In Brockton, MA they have a bus service for elderly people. It’s called Brockton Assisted Transportation. But I guess that would be too long to put on the buses, so they all have B.A.T. written in huge letters along both sides. I don’t think they thought that one through… or maybe they did 
Early one morning back in Texas, a group of drunken folks of my acquaintance once removed some the marquee letters on a Dairy Queen sign that read “country basket,” changing it to “cunt basket.” It was afternoon of the next day before staff in the place took notice of it. 
Hey, that’s interesting. Thanks for fighting my ignorance! Hooray for the Tappet Bros. too!
Not too far from me is a motel that has its name on a sign visible only to northbound traffic. Approaching from the southbound side of the highway it appears to be called the Turn Right Over Bridge Motel.
We also have the FUTURE HAIR TRAINING CENTRE.
I’ve been waiting for that place to open for almost ten years now.
What’s the meaning for English speakers?
There’s a local car dealership called OK Used Cars. I can’t imagine who buys cars there.
It’s a derogatory term for Italians.
