Sticks 'n Stuff: To me this sounds like a store that should be located next to Spatula City.
Balls Soda: When I first saw this in Fallout I thought they had made it up.
I also like places that have a sense of humor: For example there a local potato chip called Bull’s Chips and the farm the potatoes are grown on is called Bull’s Hit.
When I lived in Maryland I saw a Ewing Oil company truck every once in awhile. I always wondered wether the guy who owned the company was a big Dallas fan or if his name was really Ewing.
There is a store in my town with the imaginative, highly descriptive name:
“Product Supply, Inc.”
So they sell … what? “Product”? They actually sell stuff like bricks, cinder blocks, paving stones, and other similar things made of concrete. Maybe it’s construction business lingo. I can just hear the conversation:
Bricklayer: “Hey boss, we’re just about out of product. Better order some more.”
Along those lines, a good friend’s husband owned a contractors’ supply business called Area Supply. I think his father named it. I would never have dreamed of saying anything, I but always thought it was a wildly unimaginative and nondescript name.
Area Supply. Motto: We supply the area… with supplies.
The first time my wife wanted to shop in a Dress Barn, my first thought was, “But honey, you **lost ** all that weight!” It just sounds like a linoleum-floored mega-store for plus-sized women.
No, the big women shop at Dress Barn WOMAN. To me, that, along with Casual Corner Woman, implies that the dresses sold at the plain old Dress Barn and Casual Corner are for men.
An ex friend of mine had a business involving “government contracts.” He was very vague about the details, but it seemed to be very lucrative. He did a lot of his work online, and his business was called " His Full Name" Business. And his website was *** www.“His Full Name” Biz.com*** :dubious:
It cracked me up everytime I saw it.
A friend’s parents would buy their pool supplies from the Water Warehouse. I remember giggling like a fool the first time I saw a catalog in their house, because the name makes me imagine a warehouse-type store selling…water.
Also, Acme brick. Located on the web at brick.com.
There’s a telecommunications company in Canada called Telus. No relation, apparently, to Tellus, the telecommunications branch of the evil megalocorporation in Werewolf: The Apocalypse that’s trying to bring about the end of the world.
This one’s not so much fake sounding, as it is baffling. As in, “why would you continue to keep this name since you can’t possibly be ignorant of the connotations it’s picked up since the company’s most likely innocent founding.”
I don’t know what they do precisely. I assume some sort of analysis. But their sign has a logo that I assume is supposed to be a flame or a beaker, but given the name, I can only see either a hand with index finger extended, or perhaps a drop of lube.
(Ah… they have a website, so you can see the logo. Judge for yourself: http://www.analtech.com/)
There’s a place here in town that I drive by all the time called Yotta Yotta Inc. Yes, I understand what the name means and why it might be named that. I still think it’s a stupid sounding name and if I worked there I’d be embarrassed to tell people the name of the place. I’d probably feel like I had to explain it every time.
Back in the early 1970’s Snap-On tools sold an oscilloscope for automotive tune up. They called it an Anal-O-scope. The first part being pronounced ah-nall. Like in analysis. They got their salesmen to get patches sown on their uniform shirts that showed a scope waveform and had the name stitched on in large bold letters.
One of my co-workers saw the patch and asked the salesman What’s an anal scope?
A Greek tune up was the reply.
