# Businesses with names which sound like puns, but aren't **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 27, 2011, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/businesses-with-names-which-sound-like-puns-but-arent/594298 "2011-08-27T17:10:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/businesses-with-names-which-sound-like-puns-but-arent/594298/21 "2011-08-29T15:34:09Z")
A friend of mine grew up close to the East Chicago [Package Liquor](http://www.yellowpagesgoesgreen.org/East+Chicago-IN/East+Chicago+Package+Liquor/75503). ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/businesses-with-names-which-sound-like-puns-but-arent/594298/22 "2011-08-29T15:51:38Z")
> [@brewha](#): > > A friend of mine grew up close to the East Chicago [Package Liquor](http://www.yellowpagesgoesgreen.org/East+Chicago-IN/East+Chicago+Package+Liquor/75503). What am I missing? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/businesses-with-names-which-sound-like-puns-but-arent/594298/23 "2011-08-29T15:56:19Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > What am I missing? That one took me a beat. ‘Package licker’. ‘Package’ being a term for the penis, or penis and scrotum. ETA: I saw a place in Munich called **Peter Palmer**. . ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/businesses-with-names-which-sound-like-puns-but-arent/594298/24 "2011-08-29T16:10:22Z")
Hm, I’ve seen signs for package liquor stores my whole life! But, yeah, _snort_ I guess. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/businesses-with-names-which-sound-like-puns-but-arent/594298/25 "2011-08-29T16:13:32Z")
There was reputed to be a laundry called Mee Hung Lo. ---
**Author:** ![Pixel\_Dent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Pixel\_Dent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixel_Dent)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/businesses-with-names-which-sound-like-puns-but-arent/594298/26 "2011-08-29T17:20:28Z")
In Buffalo, NY there’s Amigone Funeral Home. As kids we always imagined a corpse sitting up asking, “Am I gone?” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/businesses-with-names-which-sound-like-puns-but-arent/594298/27 "2011-08-29T17:22:35Z")
> [@Pixel\_Dent](#): > > In Buffalo, NY there’s Amigone Funeral Home. As kids we always imagined a corpse sitting up asking, “Am I gone?” ‘If you can ask…’ 😛 ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/businesses-with-names-which-sound-like-puns-but-arent/594298/28 "2011-08-29T17:39:44Z")
When I lived in Las Cruces, New Mexico, there was a local gas station chain called “Bar-F Gasoline”. Nobody in town saw it as “barf”; they all read the name as a cattle brand. In Buffalo, Italians don’t see what the big deal is about Amigone Funeral Home. “Yeah, I guess you could look at it that way, but it’s stupid.” ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/businesses-with-names-which-sound-like-puns-but-arent/594298/29 "2011-08-29T17:44:23Z")
There was a natural gas vendor in Sarasota (or coulda been more widespread) called People’s Gas. I didn’t notice anything at all until someone said “hey, isn’t that a funny name?” I replied “yeah, I guess when you think about it, it does sound sorta Communistic.” I didn’t get the flatulence reference at all. And neither did the founders of the company apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Mikemike2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikemike2/32/305_2.png) [@Mikemike2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikemike2)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/businesses-with-names-which-sound-like-puns-but-arent/594298/30 "2011-08-29T17:47:45Z")
I always though “Shoe Source” was strange as in “shoe sores.” ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/businesses-with-names-which-sound-like-puns-but-arent/594298/31 "2011-08-29T19:43:16Z")
> [@Pixel\_Dent](#): > > In Buffalo, NY there’s Amigone Funeral Home. As kids we always imagined a corpse sitting up asking, “Am I gone?” On a similar theme, there is a funeral home where I used to live called “Snouffer’s.” I guess they can drum up their own business. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/businesses-with-names-which-sound-like-puns-but-arent/594298/32 "2011-08-29T20:43:54Z")
The Ford Focus. I always hear it in my head as “Fuck Us” or “Fucked Us”. On the back of the car it looks like a bumper sticker stating what happened when you bought it: Ford fucked us. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/businesses-with-names-which-sound-like-puns-but-arent/594298/33 "2011-08-29T21:11:34Z")
A couple of hillbilly girls went to a photographer to have their picture taken. ‘Stand still,’ says one, ‘He has to focus.’ ‘Bofe us?’ ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/businesses-with-names-which-sound-like-puns-but-arent/594298/34 "2011-08-29T21:46:37Z")
Well… while I’m more than willing to believe this is apocryphal… My father swears that when he was growing up in a small rural town a family named Hackett ran several of the local businesses. Specifically, that the father and one son were barbers, another son was a butcher, and the daughter ran a clothing and sewing supplies shop, meaning: Hackett & Hackett the barbers Hackett the butcher Miss Hackett the dressmaker. He also claims that the local dentists were Messrs. Houton and Achen. :dubious: I take this all with a grain… nay… a sack of salt. 🙂 I was pretty amused in the US to see a service station chain named _Kum & Go_. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/businesses-with-names-which-sound-like-puns-but-arent/594298/35 "2011-08-29T21:56:17Z")
> [@Apollyon](#): > > I was pretty amused in the US to see a service station chain named _Kum & Go_. I’ve wondered whether that was the convenience store involved in [this recent story](http://notalwaysright.com/conveniently-ambiguous/13392) at Not Always Right. > [@](#): > > Me: “We go all out at [store]! How may I help you?” > > Caller: _sounding concerned_ “Yes, hello. I was just looking over my husband’s credit card bill and I saw a charge to [store] from a few months back. I was wondering…what kind of a business are you?” > > Me: “We are a convenience store, ma’am.” > > Caller: “Oh, good, thank you! You have a fantastic day now.” > > Man, in the background of the call: “I told you!” ---
**Author:** ![Huerta88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/businesses-with-names-which-sound-like-puns-but-arent/594298/36 "2011-08-29T22:16:42Z")
Snap-On Tools always made me snicker. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/businesses-with-names-which-sound-like-puns-but-arent/594298/37 "2011-08-30T17:38:39Z")
I think the _Drury Inns_ have a bad name. I always think of Dreary Inn. ---
**Author:** ![jasonh300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jasonh300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasonh300)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/businesses-with-names-which-sound-like-puns-but-arent/594298/38 "2011-08-30T19:32:07Z")
> [@Apollyon](#): > > He also claims that the local dentists were Messrs. Houton and Achen. > > :dubious: There’s a dentist named Dr. Akin in Algiers, Louisiana. Dr. Heurtin is an orthodontist in Gretna, Louisiana who has been practicing since mid-80s…his office was right next to my orthodontist and he’s still listed in the yellow pages. Also a Dr. Clotworthy, DDS in Metairie, LA who probably should’ve been a hematologist. Dr. Richard P. Dickey is a Gynecologist in Metairie, LA, as is Dr. Bohn (pronounced bone) and we can’t forget Dr. Peeper, OB/GYN. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/businesses-with-names-which-sound-like-puns-but-arent/594298/39 "2011-08-30T21:32:06Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I’ve wondered whether that was the convenience store involved in [this recent story](http://notalwaysright.com/conveniently-ambiguous/13392) at Not Always Right. Ha, I’m pretty sure it is, based on the location. When I saw that story, I looked it up out of curiosity, and there’s only two convenience stories in that town… and I’m pretty sure they weren’t calling about Casey’s. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/businesses-with-names-which-sound-like-puns-but-arent/594298/40 "2011-08-30T21:46:25Z")
The former discount brokerage **Quick & Reilly**. It seems to invoke the image of a quick and _wiley_ company. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/businesses-with-names-which-sound-like-puns-but-arent/594298.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/businesses-with-names-which-sound-like-puns-but-arent/594298.md?page=3)