# Great Business Names, real or otherwise. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 15, 2001, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375 "2001-08-15T13:35:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/21 "2001-08-15T20:56:50Z")
My band played at a club in denton called the library. Perfect for a college town. When the parents call"oh, hes at the library" In the game _Max Payne_, there is a night club called “Ragna Rock” ---
**Author:** ![Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chance_the_Gardener)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/22 "2001-08-15T21:01:16Z")
There’s a bar in the Chelsea section of Manhattan called Ear. The reason for this is that the place used to have a big, red neon sign out front that read **BAR** in block letters. Part of the sign burned out, making the B look like an E. The owners never got around to fixing it, so eventually everyone started calling it Ear. And they still do. When I passed through Denison, Iowa, I saw a bar called Book 'em, Dan-o. I didn’t go in, but I kind of wish I had. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/23 "2001-08-15T21:49:16Z")
Real: **Beaver Liquors** in Colorado Fake but should be real: **Master Bait & Tackle** ---
**Author:** ![frock75](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@frock75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frock75)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/24 "2001-08-15T22:02:36Z")
I drove by a restaurant in up-state Pennsylvania, named “Little Greek Boys” Hmmm… ---
**Author:** ![dewpickedfrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea5d25/32.png) [@dewpickedfrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dewpickedfrog)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/25 "2001-08-15T23:45:48Z")
Here in Houston there’s a fairly old (by Houston standards)sushi restaraunt in a ritzy area named “Back Door Sushi”. Eeewwww. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2001, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/26 "2001-08-16T00:12:12Z")
**The Funking Conservatory** : it’s actually the last name of the people who run it, a school for professional wrestlers. Got to be _real_ careful saying this. _The Get Lucky Guesthouse_: a guesthouse in Amsterdam. I stayed there based on the name, but I’d suggest it to anyone - nice people run it. Of course it’s near the District. ---
**Author:** ![CyberHippy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dec6dc/32.png) [@CyberHippy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CyberHippy)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2001, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/27 "2001-08-16T00:16:40Z")
A good friend of mine used to have his own drywall business: **Well Hung Drywall** He got lots of business from people who just wanted the t-shirt. I dream some day of opening a combination of pet-store and Natural Foods: **Herbal Gerbils** Eh? eh? ::crickets:: Oh well, it was worth a try… ---
**Author:** ![YthDecay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/82dd89/32.png) [@YthDecay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YthDecay)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2001, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/28 "2001-08-16T04:08:42Z")
This isn’t exactly in the same vein as the other responses, but it certainly caught my eye. In a small town in New Hampshire, near Hanover, is an establishment called ‘The Unamerican Activities Investigation Committee.’ Sadly, I wasn’t able to visit ☹ \ Any NH Dopers who know the actual purpose of the UAIC? I did a Google search with no results. \ ---
**Author:** ![Ins\_Outs\_What-have-yous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8797f3/32.png) [@Ins\_Outs\_What-have-yous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ins_Outs_What-have-yous)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2001, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/29 "2001-08-16T05:31:27Z")
There is a restaurant in Vietnam named “My Dung” Mmmm…yummy There is an “Amigon” funeral home I saw in the midwest. Am I gone? I saw a gas station/restaurant sign that boasted “Kids with gas eat free.” what a deal! I saw a doctor’s office with a large sign in Logan, WV: Dr. Pimpa, gynecology ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2001, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/30 "2001-08-16T07:08:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Maeglin \* > \*\*There’s a infant/toddler clothes store a few blocks from me called “Babies on Amsterdam,” as it’s right on Amsterdam Avenue. This is only mildly funny. > > The sign is partially occluded by a tree. From most angles, the sign says “Rabies on Amsterdam.” \*\* “Babies on Amsterdam”? Huh? Me lack clue. No get “mildly funny”. Help clue lack man grok ha ha. ---
**Author:** ![Kittie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Kittie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kittie)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2001, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/31 "2001-08-16T07:11:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scott \* > \*\*Hartford, CT - The Foo King Kitchen Chinese Restaurant. I love it. \*\* I go there often. Best damn chinese food around! If I had a buisness I’d name is Uranus Hertz. ~Kittie ---
**Author:** ![psychogumby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c0e974/32.png) [@psychogumby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychogumby)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2001, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/32 "2001-08-16T22:07:43Z")
It’s amazing how much more lucid one is when they’re on here first thing in the morning. Two other REAL candidates from the pissant white-bread mountain town I call home include: The Vietnamese restaurant called ‘A Dong’. The chinese restaurant and karaoke bar called ‘U Sing’. Why is it that asian cuisine and dubious nonmenclatures go so well together? ---
**Author:** ![brad\_d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@brad\_d](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brad_d)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2001, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/33 "2001-08-16T23:33:14Z")
For a while in Arlington, Texas there was a sign visible from Highway 183 for **Murphy’s Law** Legal Services. ---
**Author:** ![brad\_d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@brad\_d](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brad_d)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2001, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/34 "2001-08-16T23:35:12Z")
Ahem. That would be Irving, not Arlington, for the DFW-savvy. Near the MacArthur exit, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2001, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/35 "2001-08-16T23:36:18Z")
Bar in a college town: The Library. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/36 "2001-08-17T03:15:32Z")
There’s an old building several miles south of the town I live in which _looks_ like it came from a main street of a small town about 130 years ago, but sits all by itself on a dirt road out in the middle of nowhere. In front is a bunch of rusty old road construction equipment. The sign over the door says “Expanding Contracting.” ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Stewart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Dave\_Stewart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Stewart)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/37 "2001-08-17T08:27:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sublight \* > \*\*An American retro-crap shop in Hamamatsu, Japan: The Booby Whoop. Absolutely no idea where they got that. They also sold “key fucks” for 3000 yen. > > Cafe Salive (Drool Cafe), also in Hamamatsu. Not far from Booby Whoop. > > The Vulgar Cafe, in Nishi-Nippori, Tokyo. Good Curry. > > Many more, but it’s too late for me to remember anything. > > –sublight. \*\* In Osaka, there is a chain of bars called ‘Someplace Else’ (I used to frequent the one at Triangle Park in Amerika mura). As in, “Where have you guys been?” “Someplace Else.” In Kobe, there is a really nice restaurant, overlooking Kobe Bay near the ferris wheel, called Mosaic (great paella). Trouble is, “mosaic” in Japan means the square fuzzy big pixels in front of genitalia in pornography. Lots of people eat there, anyway. In Hong Kong, buying milk from “Kowloon Dairy Company” makes me wonder if the milk contains mad cow disease. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2001, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/38 "2001-08-18T01:59:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pldennison \* > \*\*There’s a store on Clifton Blvd. in Lakewood, OH (in the artsy portion of town) that sells all kinds of novelties, decorations, toys, etc. It’s owned by a wonderful pair of gay men who sold me a way-cool ice-cream-cone lamp. The name of the store is Clifron Web. (I bet Eve thinks it’s funny, anyway.) \*\* Phil: You mean **Clifton’s** Web, right? That’s where I got my Abbie Hoffman shirt. I used to live in Lakewood. Man, that was the life. ---
**Author:** ![Kalashnikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@Kalashnikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalashnikov)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2001, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/39 "2001-08-18T03:29:27Z")
There’s a business I drive past that’s called “Patriot Supply”. I keep thinking it \*\*should]/b] be a gunshop or a surplus store. But no, its just a lumberyard. This is new england after all. ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2001, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/40 "2001-08-18T03:47:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dave Stewart \* > > In Osaka, there is a chain of bars called ‘Someplace Else’ (I used to frequent the one at Triangle Park in Amerika mura). > > As in, “Where have you guys been?” “Someplace Else.” > \*\* Wow, my family has talked about how cool it would be to start a restaurant called Someplace Else. My roommate has a pair of boxers with the phrase “I got my crabs at Dirty Dick’s.” Dirty Dick’s, being, of course, a seafood restaurant/store (not sure which, I forgot to ask her). There’s a Vietnamese foodcart and restaurant in Madison called I’m Here. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375.md?page=3)