# Odd names for businesses **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 16, 2003, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414 "2003-12-16T22:43:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/21 "2003-12-17T21:15:39Z")
There’s a “Green Prosthetics” somewhere in the Bay Area. (I forget exactly where.) I like to think they’ve been getting a lot of business from maimed orcs in the last few years. ---
**Author:** ![carimwc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac8455/32.png) [@carimwc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carimwc)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/22 "2003-12-17T21:33:30Z")
There’s a Fukien Gourmet in Fredericksburg, VA. It’s not really pronounced how most people would assume but in a collge town… I remember doing an email compilation one time and coming across a company that had its ending as [fu.com](http://fu.com). It’s a big company too. Forrester something. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/23 "2003-12-17T22:03:36Z")
“Lady J’s Gingerbread House”, in Nashville. A Real American Herooooo, various noshes are here! 😛 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/24 "2003-12-17T22:34:23Z")
In San Francisco, near the downtown end of the 38 Geary bus line, is **Home Boy Liquors**. Also in SF, on San Jose St. somewhere, is the sign in front of a church, a professionally done sign, not a changeable text sign, that reads **Jesus Christ “Cares For You”** , WITH the quotation marks… > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rico \* > \*\*On Beach Blvd. in Huntington Beach, California: > > **Phuket Thai** > > Thai Food Restaurant - \*\* I think Phuket is a style of cooking or something, because it’a a common word in the names of Thai food restaurants all over the country. Either that or Thai people have a real sense of humor… hrh ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/25 "2003-12-17T22:59:07Z")
There’s a restaurant near my place called the [Insomnia Karaoke Restaurant](www.city.richmond.bc.ca/council/ meetings/2002/082602\_agenda.htm). Also on Kingsway in Burnaby, there’s a Vietnamese restaurant called Pho Bich Nga. Mispronounce that just _slightly_… F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/26 "2003-12-18T01:38:29Z")
DAMM Fine Printing ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/27 "2003-12-18T01:55:06Z")
I keep seeing a tutoring place: “Kumon”. If these people were at all educated … ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/28 "2003-12-18T02:21:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by fishbicycle \* > **And what about the store that only sells beads? How do places like this stay in business?** Well, I don’t know about bonsai stores, but the last time I accompanied **ladybug** into a bead store, the place was mobbed with bead-crazed women, oohing and aahing over every piece of quartz, markesite, pyrite, and verbed glass of all sorts, not to mention wood, plastic, and even petrified dinosaur bone… All with holes drilled/cast/molded into them so that they could reside on a piece of string next to other toric bits of overpricedness… In other words, I was amazed at the demand. Sorry - didn’t mean to jack yer thread. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/29 "2003-12-18T02:26:21Z")
I’ve posted this before, but my dad swears **Jack Doff Real Estate** actually existed in Five Dock, Sydney, c. 1972. ---
**Author:** ![HomerIU](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HomerIU](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HomerIU)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/30 "2003-12-18T02:56:14Z")
There is a law firm down the street from where I live with a sign outside proudly displaying the name of the owners : Lynch and Belch, attorneys at law. The funniest part is that for years they had three partners. They used to be Roach, Lynch and Belch. ---
**Author:** ![Standup\_Karmic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/31 "2003-12-18T03:23:42Z")
A friend of mine in property mgmt in California faxed me the proposed signage design for a new tenant moving into one of her buildings. It’s a hair salon. Apparently, they think that B.U.T. can be pronounced as “beauty”, and have named their salon **B.U.T. Cuts**. There was a **PMS Hobbies** in town, but they’ve recently changed their name to PM Hobbicraft. ---
**Author:** ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/32 "2003-12-18T04:47:09Z")
Both from Beecher IL: Beecher Meat and Liquor, and Beecher Tool and Die ---
**Author:** ![E.T.Bass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc29f/32.png) [@E.T.Bass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.T.Bass)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/33 "2003-12-18T05:24:13Z")
Phuket is a beach resort city in southern Thailand. ET ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/34 "2003-12-18T05:42:01Z")
Here in Longview: Kumho Tires, and Reich Builders (apparently they’re working on the 4th?) ---
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/35 "2003-12-18T06:19:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jonathan Chance \* > \*\*There’s a firm out here (Northern Virginia) with the truly unfortunate name of ‘Peed Plumbing’. \*\* One of their direct competitors is John C. Flood Plumbing. Of course, that could be a good thing: “John see flood. John fix flood.” ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/36 "2003-12-18T07:00:28Z")
Yankton Satellite TV and Hot Tub Company in Yankton, SD is my all-time favorite. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/37 "2003-12-18T12:27:35Z")
Used to be a Chinese restaurant on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn called “The Fu King Food Shop” which looked like the “c” had fallen off. I’m driving past there in an hour–I’ll look to see if it’s still there, though I think I’ve searched for it before and come up empty. ---
**Author:** ![lynxie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e99b99/32.png) [@lynxie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lynxie)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/38 "2003-12-18T12:34:30Z")
my faves… overwaite foods (grocery in victoria, b.c.) aikenhead hardware (now, unfortunately, home depot) ---
**Author:** ![Joachim\_Pieper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Joachim\_Pieper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joachim_Pieper)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/39 "2003-12-18T12:42:08Z")
there’s a chain of clothes shops in Hong Kong called ‘Wanko’. You have to wonder… Cheers. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/40 "2003-12-18T12:51:54Z")
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