Business names that thoroughly irritate you for no valid reason

In Canada, there is the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), which displays on its signs “CIBC Banking Centre”. The use of “Banking Centre” instead of “Bank” just strikes me as so much arrogant, corporate BS.

Must have been one of those GMO tomatoes. It’s still preferable to “The Homicidal Chef”, though. :slight_smile:

Post #2 about “Best Buy” pretty much nails the general principle of the most annoying names. I don’t mind if they try to be creative and fail – at least they’re trying. But it’s names like “Best …” or “Expert …” that really piss me off because of that unique combination of being simultaneously unimaginative and utterly meaningless. I always mentally translate them into the opposite variant that has a much higher probability of being true:

“Worst Buy”
“Incompetent Plumbing, Inc.”
“Careless Movers”
“Completely Outdated Home Heating and Air Conditioning”
“Overpriced Car & Truck Rentals”
etc.

I figure if a store or service has successfully achieved the ability to offer the best quality and lowest prices, the greatest expertise, or the most careful services, their first step would have been to apply these awesome talents to their own damn name.

Interesting. The word that leaped out at me in that name was “Imperial” rather than “banking center,” speaking of arrogance…

There’s a hair salon in Chicago called “I’ll Cut You.” I always thought that was pushing the joke just a little too far.

Toys"Я"Us

Kids menus that have “pisketti”. Thankfully that only started to be widespread by the time I was 12 and thus aging out of kids menus, or I would have found that patronizing.

The Home Depot” gets my vote, ‘Home Depot’ - fine - even great, but adding the ‘The’ just is arrogant and wrong.

Ever since I watched the documentary What We Do In The Shadows, I’ve gone out of my way to pronounce spaghetti “bisgetti”.

When I did this at a local Italian restaurant, the waitress got the reference and responded in kind. :smiley:

I see trucks on the road every so often for a transport company called Fluke. “If it’s on time, it’s a Fluke.”

I can appreciate the wordplay, but still that slogan bugs me… mostly because without the pun of the name, they’re saying “It’s unlikely we’ll arrive on time.”

Not so much a name, but any business with the slogan "No one does it better!’. You mean I can leave it undone and that would be better than calling you? Thanks for the head’s up.

Yes, I want to buy all my beverages at a liquor store called, “The Bunghole”.

Driving down the long, lonely highway, I came up with a new business plan (because the CD player was on the fritz, so I was alone with my thoughts). A retailer specializing in

Gotta fix that CD player for the long drive home.

Sanitary Dairy Foods Inc. always brings to my mind the thought of dairy products that have curdled, soured, or otherwise “gone off” through contamination with bacteria. I think all food products should be prepared under sanitary conditions. Having that word in the name causes me to consider the alternative.

There’s a nursing home near my town called “Sunset Manor.” I remember when my mom first saw the sign for it when I was just a little kid - we were driving by and she goes “Sunset Manor…who the hell calls a nursing home ‘Sunset Manor’?! What, the residents go there for the “sunset of their lives”? I swear Juicy, don’t you ever put me in Sunset Manor.”

From then on whenever my mom annoys me I tell her to stop or I’ll put her in Sunset Manor.

A daycare called “We’re Little People’s Too.”

Literally hurts my brain.

That’s probably your meninges that you feel. The brain has no nocicepters to “feel” pain.

:wink:

“The secret is in the sauce.”

I recall a mom & pop burrito stand near my high school. Their most slathered-up oversized offering was called the “miscarriage special”. I kid thee not. It was very popular with the HS boys. I know it was delicious. Not sure what the girls thought of it.

I can’t decide if I want to laugh or skip breakfast. :stuck_out_tongue:

That is foul!