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.
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. . .
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.
A joke is an attempt at humour that doesn’t have to be literally accurate.
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.
There is a machine shop in Evanston, Illinois called Beecher Tool & Die.
I ride the bus to work and passed our town’s “Beach Bum Tanning” for over a month before catching the double entendre.
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.
Not sure if this qualifies, it’s a product name.
Joint Juice “Keep doing what you love”
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!
There’s a restaurant near the horse racetrack here named Trotters, which makes me afraid to ever eat there.
There are at least two publicly traded companies whose name includes “Analogic.”
Heh. Anal logic.
HORSATACK - where all the letters were yellow, except for the ‘A’, which was white.
Is this a place to get saddles or pitchforks for prostitutes?
There’s a small chain in S Jersey called Canal’s Liquors. All’s well until the “C” went out in their neon sign
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.”
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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.
Aggressive Haircutters – Siddown & shuddup!
Impulse Hair Salon – I just thought you’d look good in a mohawk…
A. Duie Pyle trucking – A moist hemorrhoid?
We have a Little Embers Day Care here. Nothing says good care like the image of your child being burned to a crisp.
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. 