A friend of mine grew up close to the East Chicago Package Liquor.
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.
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Hm, I’ve seen signs for package liquor stores my whole life! But, yeah, snort I guess.
There was reputed to be a laundry called Mee Hung Lo.
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…’
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.”
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.
I always though “Shoe Source” was strange as in “shoe sores.”
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.
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.
A couple of hillbilly girls went to a photographer to have their picture taken. ‘Stand still,’ says one, ‘He has to focus.’
‘Bofe us?’
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.
I’ve wondered whether that was the convenience store involved in this recent story at Not Always Right.
Snap-On Tools always made me snicker.
I think the Drury Inns have a bad name. I always think of Dreary Inn.
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.
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.
The former discount brokerage Quick & Reilly. It seems to invoke the image of a quick and wiley company.