The only chinese restaurant in the small town I used to live in - Chef Ho.
And now just down the road from me is Heil Sound. I know Mr. Heil is good at what he does, but I can’t help but salute every time I drive by.
A long time ago someone here at SDMB made mention of a gas company in the state of Texas called El Paso Gas. I’m still laughing about that one.
I used to hear radio ads for a San Francisco record store by that name, back in the '80s. I could hardly credit the lack of sensitivity necessary to think that was a good name for anything!
Perfectly fair - and yes I’m completely serious. I’ve never heard of the Town Pump as referring to a lady of easy virtue. A place of gathering and gossip - sure - as in The Parish Pump. http://www.essex-family-history.co.uk/parishpump.htm
Don’t forget, most English speakers live outside the USA and your nation has some cute language peculiarities. Completely valid peculiarities I should add and some of your language is closer to Middle Age English than elsewhere. For example herb is pronounced “erb” in the US. That comes from the French and dates from 13thC English.
There’s a beauty parlour close to where I used to live in Bangalore that was presumably named after the proprietor, or someone else called Anu.
However, if you want to call your establishment “Anu’s Beauty Parlour”, make very sure that the apostrophe is visible. It wasn’t.
Hell, I’m a terrible duster. I’d pay extra for that.
There was a place near here for a little while called HarleQueens. I never got around to dropping in to check them out, but I can’t help imagining a guy in parti-coloured drag wearing a cap and bells.
1-800-FACIAL
I’m hesitant to call. Is that for giving one or getting one?
I occasionally go by an establishment known, apparently, as “Funk Water Quality”.
A local real estate agency goes by the name of “Fox and Roach”. I’ll just take the virtual tour, thanks.
Back in the 80’s, there was a swanky high-end chinese restaurant in New York City called Dewey Wong.
For years, my favorite such name was a hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant that was named
Foo King Chinese Food. Then they fixed their sign and it turned out the name was Food King the whole time…oh well.
I was going to mention Kum n Go (how did they decide that was better than Git n Go?). I still think they should’ve named their extra large drink The Big Kum Guzzler.
Due to it being a family name, I don’t know if there’s any business they could go into that wouldn’t be amusing, but locally, we have a Butts Barbershop.
I have a teacup that I took from a Chinese restaurant in New York. I took the cup for the logo. Name of the place is (was) Empire Szechuan Valley. Their logo featured huge, red letters ESG.
There’s a hair salon near here called “Notorious.”
I don’t think that word means what they think it means.
First, because the name is just so crass. Yeah, I get that we have to spend a lot of money on our kids. You don’t have to rub our noses in it.
But also because it’s currently owned by Bed Bath & Beyond. Wouldn’t it make so much more sense to call your store Baby & Beyond? It’s a symetric name and it perfectly describes what it is that you sell!
And it looks like Big Wong on Mott Street has now changed it’s name to Big Wong King…
Tom Raper RV Center?
There’s a daycare here called “We’re Little People’s Too.” Yes, with the double plural on “people” AND the inappropriate apostrophe.
I LOL’d when I saw a truck advertising the “Master Bait Shop.”
Am I missing something obvious, or is there some meaning of ESG I’m not aware of?
You could always go to Artistic Cosmetic Surgery if you really want to look like a Jackson Pollock or a Salvador Dali.
Are they staffed by Cenobites?
Just that their initials are actually ESV?