I will not…
Shouldn’t that be the other way around?
Do they have cobbler?
Speaking of Gobblers, check this out: LILEKS (James) :: the Gobbler
And even better, see this: http://gobblersknob.us/. Whatever connotations “Gobbler’s knob” has for you, I bet fun for the kids ain’t it.
I have a general peeve about business names that try to blend foreign language words with English, especially if it’s done ungrammatically/nonsensically. French seems to be the most commonly mangled language in this regard, I suppose because it makes everything sound so goddamned classy.
There was a (now defunct) restaurant called “Seasons de Provence” that I thought was actually quite good, but I just couldn’t accept that it wasn’t called “Saisons de Provence” or at least “Seasons of (or in) Provence.” I realize now that it was probably out of practicality, since everybody would pronounce “saisons” like “seasons” anyway, or if they were a bit more refined and worldly-wise, “sayzuns.”
Yes, I know I sound like a pretentious ass. But seriously, what can you say about an abomination like this?
Or the Alan Parsons Project.
Which reminds me - I find band names made up of a band member’s name annoying too, with one exception. In the mid 1980s, there was a hair band that had a couple of hits named Farren Heit. 
Sometimes I drive past a local bar with a highly creative name. Bar. That’s it. Bar. must’ve spent hours coming up with that one.
A mile or two down the road from Bar used to be a church. It’s name? Church. It’s no longer there. The building sat vacant for a while but reopened in the last year or two with an actual name.
What about Slaughter, the hair band fronted by Mark Slaughter? That’s actually his real name!
:rolleyes:
This has a mailing address in Lake Linden, Michigan.
ETA: Maybe the owners or “Bar” or “Church” were fans of Public Image, Ltd.?
There’s a local lawn care service called “Leap of Faith”. What does that even mean? Is it because you’re wondering if they’re going to show up?
Nope, they have a cross in their logo. Aiming for some specific demographic I guess.
A few years ago I drove past a restaurant on Cape Cod called “The Angry Tomato”. Not surprisingly, it had closed. Who wants to eat at a place with pissed-off vegetables?
When I lived in Sioux Falls, I was never tempted to stop in for a cocktail at the Crow Bar.
A buddy of mine had a lawn service company for years (he retired) called “All Green Lawn Care”. I photoshopped his truck logo, removing one “l” and replacing the drawing of lawn mowers with a picture of Al Green.
He rejected my idea.
This is real local, but when I was looking for day care for my kid, there was a place that called itself “Yours and Our Little Loves.” I didn’t even consider this place because I thought this name was (a) creepy and (b) ungrammatical. Well it is undeniably ungrammatical, not just me thinking that.
It’s still in business, nearly 20 years later.
I also have a thing about any business with “Enterprise” in the name. This is because in my youth I worked in a strip club and our paychecks said we worked for “Hart Enterprises” so anything with either of those words is immediately suspect.
It tells me that their faith is more important than any supposed lawn care they do. I wouldn’t hire them.
Along similar lines some years ago I encountered a company (used in a home reno job) called Counter Intelligence. They did countertops. At first I thought it was a clever name… then they screwed up our order and the OTHER meaning came to mind.
There’s another company near here called Intelligent Decisions. First, it doesn’t tell you what they do (I looked it up; they do logisics). Second, see my lesson learned above. Any time you include the word Intelligence in your name you have to keep in mind what it says to people when you make mistakes. Everybody makes mistakes, but you don’t want them to be a memorable part of your branding like that.
Agree with your thoughts.
My other idea was that maybe the owner was referring to his business plan when he started out. But still mostly hoping to appeal to the Christian Chauvinist crowd. I saw a scary amount of that during my 20 years living in the Midwest.
You want lawn care? This is lawn care.
That’s almost as good as Dirty Hoe Landscaping.
At least it wasn’t the “Killer Tomato”!
I’m Christian, and I refuse to patronize any business that touts the owners’ religious beliefs in this way, unless it’s relevant to the business. There’s an oil change place down the road from me that puts Bible verses on their marquee, and I don’t go there either.
It’s a sign to me that they’re hiding dishonesty behind a cross.