Business names that sound completely fake

I worked for a company called Applied Designs once. Strangely, it was a souvenir wholesaler.

There was also the student exchange service FIC Conosco, which sounds like Stay With Us in Portuguese.

Well, I don’t know how fake it is, because you can’t fake something this bad…

Dress Barn Woman

…which invariably leads me to think of that Spnal Tap nugget, *Sex Farm * :

*Sex farm woman, I’ll be your hired hand
Sex farm woman, I’ll let my offer stand
Sex farm woman, don’t you hear my tractor rumbling by?

Working on a sex farm
Trying to raise some hard love
Getting out my pitch fork
Poking your hay*

:smack: They just have to know…

In Bluffton (near Hilton Head) there is a little place called Squat & Gobble. I couldn’t believe anyone would name a restaurant such an unappetizing name. Trying to find their website, I stumbled across a whole chain (apparently not related to the one I saw).

I still find it just a little hard to believe that there is an actual porn magazine named “Juggs.”

For that matter, you could probably make up a list of joke porno movie titles and intersperse them with titles that had been used for actual porno movies, and it would be extremely hard [heh heh] to tell the difference.

Squat & Gobble is ok. Gobble and Squat would be worse.
(oh, and Taco Miendo is just too funny)

I’ve always thought “Costco” and “Petco” were weird names (and now “ShopKo” too).

Until we got one in our neighborhood, I always assumed Petco was the boring, bland, warehouse version of Petsmart, because Petsmart put a lot of thought into their name and Petco did not. Turns out they’re basically the same store.

How about Applied Materials, the largest manufacturer of the machines that make computer chips. They’re the big guys in the business, but to anyone not in the business, they might as well be Acme BlahWhatever, the leading blahblah in blahblah of blahblahs for the blahblah industry.

Fifth Third Bank sounds like a joke name to me. I’m half disappointed the FAQ on their homepage doesn’t explain their name. :smiley:

When I was working as an office gopher one summer, I had to buy some boxes. I called up Starving Artist to make sure they sold boxes; they said yes, so off I went. When I got to their published address, the only sign of them was a locked door in the back with their name stenciled in. I’m still convinced they’re just a mafia front.
(I’m not, really. I just assume that they had a main store address and a more “industrial” address where they keep the trucks and supplies an whatnot. I just went to the wrong address. It was still slightly surreal.)

This is Japan, so I don’t know if it counts, but there is a coffee shop in the mall here called Balz. I know it’s juvenile, but it cracks me up.

It’s in the About Fifth Third > Our History section. :slight_smile:

It’s an improper fraction. It’s actually called 1 2/3 Bank.

The story behind the name is that the Fifth National Bank and Third National Bank merged together in 1908 to make the Fifth Third Bank of Cincinatti.

General Atomics sounds like something made up as an analogue to General Electric, but it’s a real, still-functioning company, founded in 1955:

Robert Heinlein DID use the name “General Atomics” as a company in some pre-1955 fiction:

http://www.heinleinsociety.org/concordance/G_HC.htm

He used it in later fiction, too, after it had become a real company (there’s a suggestion that the name was used as the name of a real division before 1955, BTW)

Tri-city Bolt & Screw
Sounds like the perfect location for a porno shoot.

Well, since moving companies are on the table, how about having all your stuff tied up with S&M Moving Systems. My office used them the last time we relocated. You’ve never seen so many professionals use so much juvenile humor (outside of the Dope, anyway).

Bennigan’s - the cut-rate TGIF. This could go on and on. :slight_smile:

:slight_smile: It’s not their fault that your mind is in the gutter.

It could be worse. It could be Snarf 'n Barf. :smiley:

There is a company here in Seattle that apparently does some sort of electronics manufacturing, named “T & A.” I’m not entirely certain what they do, and I’m not about to find out, because good luck googling “T & A.”

Why is the turkey humping the G?

I seem to recall a fake company from some movie or show called “Amalgamated Products, Inc.” I googled it, but instead of figuring out what movie it was from, I found a real company by that name.