# Inappropriate business or product names? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 26, 2006, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-business-or-product-names/362143 "2006-06-26T01:06:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sharky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Sharky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sharky)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-business-or-product-names/362143/41 "2006-06-27T06:01:15Z")
[QUOTE=Dung Beetle] I hate it when restaurants give themselves unappealing names, like Tubby’s, or restaurants that serve a variety of items but use one particular type of food in their names, like Macaroni Grill. Bleh. [/QUOTE] Talk about unappealing . . . there is a restaurant here on the beach called [Dirty Dick’s Crab House](http://www.dirtydickscrabs.com/index.htm). Their slogan is “I Got My Crabs From Dirty Dick’s”. Bleh, indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-business-or-product-names/362143/42 "2006-06-27T06:22:15Z")
[QUOTE=SnakesCatLady] Shopping last night I saw a container amongst the hand lotions. It was labeled “Crack Cream”. I snerked and almost bought it just because of the name. [/QUOTE] It’s a worthwhile buy! That stuff is awesome! Stings a little, but if you have dry, cracked hands, that stuff is no joke. Well, okay, it is a joke, but it works well, too. 😃 It was a source of much amusement to us ladies dealing with cardboard boxes constantly at the factory. “Ow!” we’d say. “Shove this in your crack!” they’d reply. Good times. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-business-or-product-names/362143/43 "2006-06-27T07:07:19Z")
Here in Jackson we have one Paul Flood … … Realtor. I mean really, after Katrina and all, let’s don’t use the F-word, mmmmmkay? I got a guffaw from the guys at my Hubby’s work . . they were teasing about his ‘manliness’ I says, it’s written right there on the side of his work truck (he’s Superintendent of Vehicles) … Major Equipment. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-business-or-product-names/362143/44 "2006-06-27T07:21:47Z")
[QUOTE=dnooman] Tom Raper RV [/QUOTE] Just drove by this yesterday while going through IN. I really got the vibe that they have no sense of irony about it, even as I passed the **YOU’RE IN RAPER COUNTRY!** billboard. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-business-or-product-names/362143/45 "2006-06-27T08:11:37Z")
[QUOTE=Subway Prophet] It’s a delivery truck for [Grupo Bimbo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo_Bimbo), a Mexican bread company. They have a manufacture/distribution deal with the bread factory down the street from me. Not sure why they picked that name. It doesn’t mean anything in Spanish IIRC. The comany was founded in 1945 - does anyone know if “bimbo” meaning “easy girl” was in common usage then? [/QUOTE] Interestingly, my Japanese SO and I were vacationing in Mexico recently. We came upon a billboard advertising BIMBO bread. She started giggling and said that in Japanese ”ビンボウ” (bimbou) means “poverty, destitute, poor.” ---
**Author:** ![ululate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/59ef9b/32.png) [@ululate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ululate)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-business-or-product-names/362143/46 "2006-06-27T12:27:47Z")
Saw a truck not too long ago with the “TWO GUYS AND A TRUCK” company name emblazoned on it. Right behind it was another such truck. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-business-or-product-names/362143/47 "2006-06-27T12:49:21Z")
[QUOTE=hajario] There used to be a diet pill that was heavily advertised on TV in the 70’s. It was called A.I.D.S. By the late 70’s, they had changed their name to A.Y.D.S. but I doubt that they survived the unfortunate choice of name. “A.I.D.S. will make you lose weight fast!” Ugh. [/QUOTE] They always were called “Ayds” (and never an acronym). The rise of AIDS [didn’t seem to hurt sales](http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,926056,00.html) in the begining, but they were hurting even before then, and went out of business in the late 80s. ---
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-business-or-product-names/362143/48 "2006-06-27T12:56:51Z")
\*\*Dicks Sporting Goods \*\* also struck me as an odd choice. I can hear the employees describe how they enjoy working for Dicks. Also the \*\*Siemens Corporation \*\* obviously found no objections to any juvenile connections with their name. Now if these two planned a merger, then…oh never mind. When I worked for construction, one of the John Deere competitors was **Ingersollrand** which always looked like a bad Scrabble rack to me. ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-business-or-product-names/362143/49 "2006-06-27T16:57:14Z")
[QUOTE=Whifton\_Polekitty] As a wee tad, my grandfather and I got rgeat pleasure from a local store, I thikn furnature or something, called “A. Dewey Pyle”, which we decided was a secret group that went out and collected, ahem, “fertilizer” from local cow pastures… (York, PA for those of you with scorecards) [/QUOTE] It’s still around, and I always pictured a cow pie covered with morning dew when I see that name. There is also a company in the same area called[Asplundh](http://www.asplundh.com/). Which I, of course, pronounce as Ass Plunder. I think that is what butt pirates do, ass plunder. ---
**Author:** ![tashabot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tashabot/32/6250_2.png) [@tashabot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tashabot)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-business-or-product-names/362143/50 "2006-06-27T17:44:18Z")
Someone opened a record store here called “WTF Records.” I didn’t think much of it until I was babysitting a five year old who was learning how to read right and she asked me “Tasha, what does double-you tee eff spell?” Not only did I have to give her an impromptu less on acronyms, I had to lie and tell her it stood for the owner’s names’. ☹ ~Tasha ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-business-or-product-names/362143/51 "2006-06-27T18:11:26Z")
I’d never given it a second thought, but when passing a home improvement store an acquaintence from England found it hilarious that we had a store named “Me nards”. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-business-or-product-names/362143/52 "2006-06-27T19:00:41Z")
**Annie** writes: > [@](#): > > There’s a local delivery service named Guaranteed Overnight Delivery. Their trucks have a huge “G.O.D.” on them. Some religious people have complained. Science Fiction/fantasy writer Jack Chalker wrote a series of books about a fictional company called “G.O.D., Inc.” The premise is that this interdimensional delivery service is responsible for the cheap stuff you see advertised on late-night TV and the like. (Did you think Ronco and K-Tel stuff really originated _ion Earth_?). I forget what the initials stood for, but it wasn’t “Guaranteed Overnight Delivery”. Chalker was apparently unaware of the real company of that name. One day he was waiting at a traffic light, and a G.O.D. truck pulled up next to him. As he told it, he almost had a heart attack. Probbably followed by wondering if some fans had arranged the Mother of All Practical Jokes on him. They’re not “local”, by the way – they’re up here in New England, too. And Chalker lived in Maryland, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-business-or-product-names/362143/53 "2006-06-27T19:18:22Z")
Buffalo Sanitary Wipers. Doesn’t that conjure up a nice image? Especially when the sign features the silhouette of a bison? Maybe the wipers have been used to clean up A. Dewey Pyle or two as well. Actually it’s the name of a commercial laundry near downtown Seattle. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-business-or-product-names/362143/54 "2006-06-28T00:47:46Z")
My current employer is [Mac & Jac](http://www.macandjac.com/home.html). The name comes from unusual diminiutive forms of the owners’ two daughters, but to me it sounds like Macaroni and Jack Cheese as it might appear on the menu of one of those restaurants that tries too hard to be fun. (But their kit is better than the name might lead one to believe, at least. :D) ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-business-or-product-names/362143/55 "2006-06-28T01:16:59Z")
[QUOTE=Whifton\_Polekitty] As a wee tad, my grandfather and I got rgeat pleasure from a local store, I thikn furnature or something, called “A. Dewey Pyle”, which we decided was a secret group that went out and collected, ahem, “fertilizer” from local cow pastures… (York, PA for those of you with scorecards) [/QUOTE] A. Duie Pyle is a trucking company based in West Chester, PA (not York). And, yes, Pennsylvania has its fair share of cow pastures. Robin [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-business-or-product-names/362143.md?page=2)