You obviously have never been to Ellensburg
Just Googled it; that’s what bisoprolol is called in eastern Europe. Here in the U.S., the brand name is Zebeta.
I participate in a market research program regarding drug names, and in recent years, they’ve gotten really big on using lots of letters that have multiple Scrabble points 
- lots of X’s, V’s, J’s, etc.
Being from Des Moines, there’s also Prairie Meadows, a casino whose name is redundant, and when I lived there, there was a “Jesus Is Lord Towing Service”. You’d see this truck around town that had “John 3:16” painted on the side of it; I just Googled it too, and it does list an address and phone number but it doesn’t seem to be current.
You missed the admittedly subtle context of my statement. This is the post immediately preceding mine:
Mister Rik’s location is “The bunghole of WA”. So I was asking him why he thought that was so? He’s pretty good at ranting and I hoped he’d say something entertaining.
I’ve flown over that fairly scenic area, but have never been to or through Wenatchee or Ellensburg.
So Saint Cad: maybe *you * can tell us why Ellensburg, or Wenatchee, or both, is so wonderfully especially bungholish. Please 
When I was in college, some people referred to it as “Spurt and Split”. 
Sorry, this one’s a valid reason.
Whenever I see a branch of the chain store Plato’s Closet (which sells used clothing for teens), I have to do a momentary double-take, because of the similarity to Plato’s Retreat.
For those who don’t know, or don’t care to click the link, Plato’s Retreat was a famous swinger’s club in NYC. :eek:
The aforementioned Tuesday Morning didn’t irritate me, so much as just confuse the fuck out of me. For some reason I got the idea they were some sort of maternity store. Last year I finally ventured into one and it’s just a store with all sorts of different stuff.
One mall near me has some ice cream store (I think that’s what it is) named Lik. Yeah, I’m not buying anything from a place named Lik. Oh and to be super irritating, there’s an accent mark over the i.
I can’t get two words out of that, just three letters, SFX. Makes me think the drug must not be real, just computer generated.
There used to be florist in my town called “Sherwood Florist”.
Sorry, missed your question when you posted it.
Wenatchee is basically the geographic center of Washington state. Yeah, it’s scenic. For the three weeks in the Spring when everything is still green, before the heat turns everything a dull brown. And then the annual wildfires arrive some time in July or August and even if they’re not strictly “local”, the endless wind in the region blows all the smoke right down the valley so we get to “enjoy” it anyway. I work at the city’s convention center, which depends almost entirely on bringing in business from out of town, so one year I ended up losing almost an entire month’s work because the smoke caused almost every group we had booked to cancel.
And that wind? Having spent 14 years using a bicycle as my primary form of transportation, I can confirm as a fact that the wind here blows in all four directions at the same time, and always opposite the direction you’re traveling. I had also, due to bicycling, reached the conclusion that this whole city is uphill in both directions, a fact that was finally confirmed for me when I got a job in the restaurant at the top of Wenatchee’s tallest hotel and looked out the window to see that, yes, indeed, the two major one-way streets both run uphill in their respective directions of travel. I’m not entirely sure how the engineers managed that one.
Summer/Autumn brown eventually gives way to Winter’s white, which promptly turns gray and then remains gray. The sky dumps a crapton of snow on us, and the city decides it doesn’t have the budget for proper snow removal so they just plow the snow into gigantic berms down the center of every major street, upon which you get to see one car after another high-centered trying to make left turns across it. And after the snowfall, the skies clear and the sun comes out … just long enough to slightly melt everything before it disappears again and the cold freezes all the melt into a solid sheet of ice that then remains for a couple months because it never gets warm enough again for it to actually melt and run off. We have to wait for it to sublimate.
This all finally gives way to Spring, and we get our annual three weeks of Scenic before the cycle starts over again.
And don’t get me started on this fargin’ “Apple Capital of the World” nonsense that the city fathers just won’t shut up about.
ETA: Oh yeah, “Apples”. That’s another word with endless pages of business names in the phone book. For God’s sake, stop it!
Would have been much funnier if the sandwich shop was replaced by a pie bakery.
Are you sure about that? I thought I read somewhere that Max’s name came from a recording term. I could be wrong, though. It’s been a long time. (Edit to add: Nope, I’m wrong. You’re right. I wonder where I saw that, or if it’s just memory playing tricks on me)
As for my entry, around here, we have a place called “Casa de Mini Storage,” which I always thought was the stupidest name ever. I found out recently that the name of the business is “Casa de Mini” and it’s a storage place, which isn’t quite as bad as “House of Mini Storage,” but almost.
I’m really glad somebody else remembers (and joked about) STOP CASTING POROSITY. The spouse and I used to chuckle over that on our commute for a couple of years.
I wish I’d had a camera with me a couple weeks ago when my wife and I drove to the next town for her friend’s birthday. There was sort of a small strip-mall type thing, and the big sign in front read:
LIQUOR, WINE & BEER
MARIJUANA
VEHICLE LICENSING
All it needed was GUNS & AMMO.
Oh yeah, a couple decades ago I discovered the Portland Center Pharmacy. Yawn? They had their acronym imposed over alternating blue/yellow capsules.
At least at the time, it looked like a bad choice.
A new sandwich shop just opened in town, and we are still laughing at it. Sub sandwiches and soup, with a comic book theme.
Soup’er Hero
Oh hell, you have to see this one to get the full effect:
Oh snap! I hope they have some great licensing agreements in place. Otherwise, they’re asking for trouble with most of their product names.
Most excellent rant. Thank you. Sounds like an awful lot of frustration packed into one small area.
Maybe it’s the owners’ last name.
This guy’s parents must have really hated him.
This is a real place. I’m sure they’ve heard everything about suppositories and colonoscopy preps.
I hope there’s a rear entrance for customers.
ETA: Looks like a real hole in the wall.
Ass Effects.
You’ve never been treated to a commercial for the stuff. “Aciphex” is pronounced “Ass-[short i]-fecks.” It sounds a lot like “Ass effects.”