# know you are proud of your name but maybe you shouldn't use it as a business name

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 21, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/know-you-are-proud-of-your-name-but-maybe-you-shouldnt-use-it-as-a-business-name/625879 "2012-06-21T19:50:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/know-you-are-proud-of-your-name-but-maybe-you-shouldnt-use-it-as-a-business-name/625879/21 "2012-06-22T19:16:06Z")

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I patronized an eye doctor simply because his name was I. Glasser, and a dry-cleaner whose name was Tee Hee.

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2012, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/know-you-are-proud-of-your-name-but-maybe-you-shouldnt-use-it-as-a-business-name/625879/22 "2012-06-23T01:22:43Z")

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I’ve met two Frankensteins over the years. Both were American; I don’t know if they were related because I didn’t want to say “I met another Frankenstein once…” as I’m sure they’ve heard every conceivable joke about the name and probably wouldn’t think “Oh, maybe he knows Cousin Ed”. In any event, I’d have changed the surname to Franken, maybe, or Stein, but they were apparently more attached to it.

There was a family of urologists in one place where I lived named Cox. I understand you don’t go there or they’ll get… well, pissy.

Not a person’s name, but there’s an eye clinic in Tuscaloosa, AL on [Helen Keller Blvd.](http://www.superpages.com/bp/Tuscaloosa-AL/Davis-Eye-Clinic-Thomas-M-Davis-Jr-MD-L0117326196.htm).

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**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2012, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/know-you-are-proud-of-your-name-but-maybe-you-shouldnt-use-it-as-a-business-name/625879/23 "2012-06-23T04:29:29Z")

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There’s a [Raper Drugs](http://www.raperdiscountdrugs.com/) in Goldsboro, NC.

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**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/know-you-are-proud-of-your-name-but-maybe-you-shouldnt-use-it-as-a-business-name/625879/24 "2012-06-23T14:36:02Z")

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The one I saw recently was for a private cab service. The website was written across the back of the van, so the seam from the van’s doors split the address. The address was also written in a fancy or cursive style of lettering, which is kinda hard to read.

So, instead of reading 'www.jeff’s cab dot com"

it looked like “ew ew ew Jeff’s scab dot com”  
LOL

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