# Bad Names, Business Edition **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 13, 2012, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-names-business-edition/612685 "2012-02-13T06:30:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![truthbot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@truthbot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/truthbot)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-names-business-edition/612685/41 "2012-02-14T18:50:40Z")
A couple of years ago a friend-of-a-friend opened a DIY dog bathing shop. She ordered the business cards, checks and had a nice big sign installed in front of her new shop “ **DOGGY STYLE** ” She just couldn’t understand why the mini-mall management made her change the name. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-names-business-edition/612685/42 "2012-02-14T18:51:08Z")
There is a local medical supply company that uses the owner’s last name “Ponsi”. Their ads say things like, “Ponsi, a name you can trust”. Print ads, but if they ever move to radio. . . ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-names-business-edition/612685/43 "2012-02-14T19:24:53Z")
My folks use a dog-sitting service called “Passionate Pets.” Wait, it’s actually called Passionate about Pets, but I had to look at the flyer several times before I saw the “the.” On second thought, I’m not sure Passionate about Pets isn’t worse. There was at one time a sign near my exit in Oakland, CA for “Green Prosthetics” Also, a new restaurant cropped up in the neighborhood: “Jiggle Jiggle Korean Barbevcue.” It may be good, but the sign always reminds me that I’m trying to lose weight. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-names-business-edition/612685/44 "2012-02-14T21:26:22Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > Legible just means that it’s readable, not that it’s correct. A joke is an attempt at humour that doesn’t have to be literally accurate. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-names-business-edition/612685/45 "2012-02-14T21:31:41Z")
Around here we had a couple of bad ones Anita Poo Acupuncture Clinic, made it’s way onto Letterman. My local pub was called The Mad Cow for a while, it was meant as a joke but it didn’t do anything for business. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-names-business-edition/612685/46 "2012-02-14T21:35:02Z")
There is a machine shop in Evanston, Illinois called **[Beecher Tool & Die](http://www.manta.com/c/mtmhd0x/beecher-tool-die-inc)**. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-names-business-edition/612685/47 "2012-02-14T21:40:03Z")
I ride the bus to work and passed our town’s “Beach Bum Tanning” for over a month before catching the double entendre. ---
**Author:** ![Kalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/df705f/32.png) [@Kalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalypso)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-names-business-edition/612685/48 "2012-02-14T22:03:07Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Here in town, Fails Donut Factory. > > And a few towns over:House of Beef-Restaurant/Catering/Butchering Services > Next door:House of Kids(daycare) When I lived there my phone number was super similar to House of Beef, I’d get as many calls for them as for me. Once an old farmer left a message on my machine telling me how he’d like his newly butchered lamb cut up. It was very awkward callling House of Beef to relay the message. They couldn’t seem to understand what I was trying to do. Around the corner from House of Beef there’s now a lovely bar called The Battered Beaver, ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marconi_N.Cheese)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-names-business-edition/612685/49 "2012-02-14T23:27:21Z")
Not sure if this qualifies, it’s a product name. [Joint Juice](http://jointjuice.com/) “Keep doing what you love” ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-names-business-edition/612685/50 "2012-02-14T23:30:59Z")
I just saw a truck yesterday for **DIVINE MOVING & STORAGE**. Have your furniture delivered by fat drag queens–who will then _lick it all over!_ ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-names-business-edition/612685/51 "2012-02-14T23:56:53Z")
There’s a restaurant near the horse racetrack here named Trotters, which makes me afraid to ever eat there. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-names-business-edition/612685/52 "2012-02-15T00:02:48Z")
There are at least two publicly traded companies whose name includes “Analogic.” Heh. Anal logic. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-names-business-edition/612685/53 "2012-02-15T00:36:31Z")
[HORS **A** TACK](http://www.flickr.com/photos/74663312@N08/6877772823/) - where all the letters were yellow, except for the ‘A’, which was white. Is this a place to get saddles or pitchforks for prostitutes? ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-names-business-edition/612685/54 "2012-02-15T00:49:39Z")
> [@postcards](#): > > And there’s always the ever-popular [Bunghole](http://www.bungholeliquors.com/) [Liquors](https://www.google.com/search?q=bunghole+liquors&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=3XN&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=vJ06T4iEDcTg0QHqsKnMCw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CA8Q_AUoAQ&biw=1413&bih=905&sei=xJ06T6uvFOLz0gGbx7ylCw#q=bunghole+liquors&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=BYN&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=1&biw=942&bih=603). There’s a small chain in S Jersey called Canal’s Liquors. All’s well until the “C” went out in their neon sign ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-names-business-edition/612685/55 "2012-02-15T01:00:43Z")
There’s a pharmacy near me whose sign reads “BJs DRUGS”–I always want to have my picture taken in front of it and label it “The two essentials in any man’s life.” ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-names-business-edition/612685/56 "2012-02-15T01:04:50Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > [HORS **A** TACK](http://www.flickr.com/photos/74663312@N08/6877772823/) - where all the letters were yellow, except for the ‘A’, which was white. > Is this a place to get saddles or pitchforks for prostitutes? .. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-names-business-edition/612685/57 "2012-02-15T04:10:03Z")
> [@Ken001](#): > > Not certain as to what you are alluding? Seriously? It’s a pretty damn common expression. It was even used in this Sunday’s **Desperate Housewives** to insult Bree who has recently decided one night stands with all comers is grand. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-names-business-edition/612685/58 "2012-02-15T04:53:20Z")
Aggressive Haircutters – Siddown & shuddup! Impulse Hair Salon – I just thought you’d look good in a mohawk… A. Duie Pyle trucking – A moist hemorrhoid? ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-names-business-edition/612685/59 "2012-02-15T05:04:00Z")
We have a Little Embers Day Care here. Nothing says good care like the image of your child being burned to a crisp. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-names-business-edition/612685/60 "2012-02-15T05:26:38Z")
There’s a place down the road that sells horse gear. It’s called “Tack Town”. Every time I pass it, I yearn for a matching letter Y. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-names-business-edition/612685.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-names-business-edition/612685.md?page=4)