Oh, yeah, I’m with you, enipla, on that one. What an irritating name.
There was a restaurant in my city called “The Fish Bowl.”
I worked in a pet store for many years. Fish bowls are gross. Filthy, poop-filled fish-smelling water. Every time I saw that sign I would remember the smell of fish tanks and be grossed out that they were associating that with food. I went there a couple of times and it was okay, but the name always skeeved me out.
Hah! Fun thread. I didn’t realize how many ways there were to get annoyed. Mine is stores with faux old words/spelling like “ye” and “olde”, especially gift sores. The worst would be “Ye Olde Gift Shoppe”.
Ye Olde Gyfte Shoppe? Pronounced of course “Yee oldie giftie shoppie”
Guess who else hates the name?
You got ninjae’d.
麻小 (麻辣小龙虾, if you want to be all proper about it) is actually a rather popular Chinese dish. Take a look.
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Not because it’s the worst, but because it’s…
…an awful, lumpy name
…on a wannabe-upscale chain that should know better
…that is of significant size.
Three strikes, Ruth or Chris or someone is out.
You see this *A LOT *with businesses that have to do with industrial supplies. I really think these names are chosen so corporate purchasing agents can sound cryptic and having special knowledge when they talk about the price of standard bolts, mops, etc; usually accompanied by a part number and no verbal description
I knew of one supply simply named “DAL-RS”, nothing else on the building or letterhead… 
There was a short-lived restaurant here called, “Bake N Brew”. Their slogan was “Pretty OK Food”.
I often thought they should be called, “Bong N Suds”.
Was never a fan of “Radio Shack.” I know the history and the reason they named it that (when the US Navy first adopted radio, the equipment was housed in a small wooden structure on deck, known as the “radio shack”), but I’d imagine most people don’t know that story and it just sounds like a dude selling electronics out of an outhouse.
Depends on how old you are. When the “Radio Shack” name was chosen in 1921 it made perfect sense. The term was also used in the other services, so it wasn’t strictly USN slang. When I was a kid in the early 60s and Radio Shack was in it’s heyday most electronic hobbyists were middle-aged WWII vets. Who all knew exactly what a radio shack was. It’s still common parlance amongst ham radio people today.
As with so many companies, their product line slowly drifted further and further from their name. The march of tech progress didn’t help. You’re quite right it’s a crappy name in 2016 for a cellphone sales agent and RC cars sales company with a small sidelight in low quality generic batteries and expensive PC patch cables.
It’s been many years since anyone named Boeing had anything to do with the plane maker. Sure seems like a silly and non-descriptive name for them to have in 2016. How about they rename it to something like “US Aerospace” or “MegaDefenseCorp” or “jetsR’US” complete with nonstandard casing and embedded special characters? Tres trendy.
There’s value in brand continuity even if the product line changes.
I’ve seen bars that have “Pub ‘n’ Grub” in their names. “Pub” I can deal with, but “grub” isn’t something I want to eat, unless I happen to be visiting Snuffy Smith or the Duke boys. And there’s no chance of either.
Another place I’ve seen: The Gashole. They don’t sell gasoline or fuel, but coffee and snacks. I’ve never been there, and will never go.
There’s a local bank called Rabobank. Pronounced “rob a bank”.
Apple doesn’t have employees, they have geniuses. At the Genius Bar.
Looks like they’re all in the St. Louis area, except for one in Indianapolis.
This weekend, they’ll also be open on Monday.
As for Tuesday Morning, the ones I’ve seen mostly sold sheet sets and giftwrap. The one in my old town closed suddenly, and not long afterwards, most of the employees were arrested because they were stealing the better merchandise and selling it on eBay. :eek:
I don’t like businesses named for prominent, nearby geographical features, or the name of the city in which it’s located, because everybody does it. The local phone book has page after page after page of businesses whose names start with “Columbia” (we’re on the Columbia River), “Cascade” (you can sorta see part of the Cascade mountain range from here), “Valley” (we’re, um, in a valley) and “Wenatchee” (the name of this city). Names like that just don’t require any thought or originality.
For some of the older businesses that use the city name, I suspect that at some point in the past they were the only business in town that sold whatever they sell, and early on probably had a shingle out front that just said, “Hardware” or “Feed”.
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At the risk of triggering a world-class rant:
Why exactly is Wenatchee the bunghole of WA? Looks to be on a big river, near pretty mountains, an easy drive to the really big city when necessary, but otherwise out in the quiet countryside. Sure it’s a smallish town. Washington has lots of small towns. As does every other state. What’s the secret sauce that makes Wenatchee so especially bungholish?
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There’s been a tire store out here called Four Day Tires. Prominently placed in their print ads was a cartoon depicting a guy selling tires four days out of the week, and the other three, sitting under a shade tree next to a brook with a fishing pole.
I never minded that, but when I started seeing “Three Day Blinds” I found myself pretty unimpressed with the work ethic of the people in the retail window treatment game.
Y’know, looking at the Trivago name it occurs to me that it may be a smooshing of “Trip” “Vacation” “Go”
Or not 