# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/41 "2003-12-18T13:16:12Z")
One of the better ones I’ve heard of is the construction company [Mammoth Erections](http://www.thecityofaustin.com/concrete/) (just scroll down the page for the address). ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/42 "2003-12-18T14:36:46Z")
Bare and Swett Insurance. Help me fabricate a sexual reference here, dopers. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Marko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@El\_Marko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Marko)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/43 "2003-12-18T15:14:43Z")
There’s a place in Morehead City, NC called the Sanitary Fish Market. It’s a restaurant, so I’ve always been puzzled by the “Market” part of the title. And I’ve always been a bit concerned that they felt the need to emphasize the cleanliness of the place in the name. The one that really take the cake for me is the “Chinese Tak-ee Out-ee” place I say once - don’t remember where though. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/44 "2003-12-18T18:12:05Z")
There once was a Thai cook from Phucket Who soaked his fish heads in a bucket What about the fish tails? He threw those in pails I can’t think of an ending, so f\_\_k it! ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/45 "2003-12-18T20:00:03Z")
Swett and its various subsdiaries have gone through some gyrations through the past several decades and are know known as Swett & Crawford. My ex works with them and jokes that he’s in a Swett shop. Around town, I see trucks for Smelly Mel’s Plumbing. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/46 "2003-12-19T01:11:40Z")
“Assmonkey’s Breakfast Pastries, Tire Swallowing, and Titty Massage.” Not really. ---
**Author:** ![MarkD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@MarkD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarkD)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/47 "2003-12-19T12:19:30Z")
Amigone funeral homes in Buffalo NY. Amigone? ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/48 "2003-12-19T12:47:51Z")
The Spread Eagle (a pub) ---
**Author:** ![whippingboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@whippingboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whippingboy)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/49 "2003-12-19T13:05:54Z")
Wan Kink Chinees restaurant … amsterdam ---
**Author:** ![whippingboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@whippingboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whippingboy)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/50 "2003-12-19T13:05:55Z")
Wan Kink Chinees restaurant … amsterdam ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/51 "2003-12-19T19:26:03Z")
There’s a place near here named “S&M Machinery”. Do you REALLY wanna see what’s inside?! ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/52 "2003-12-20T01:28:32Z")
I driver by Teter Prosthetics frequently. That makes me laugh. There’s also a coffee shop in my town called The Wooly Bugger. I know (now) that it’s a fishing lure used in fly fishing, but when it first opened, I thought it was some kind of coffee shop for big, hairy gay men. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/53 "2003-12-20T02:24:32Z")
Signage on a septic tank pumping truck here in SW Connecticut. “We’re Number 1 in Number 2” And another… “Your business is our business” ---
**Author:** ![Lathe\_of\_Heaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Lathe\_of\_Heaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lathe_of_Heaven)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/54 "2003-12-20T04:35:19Z")
Used to be a place here in L.A. called “Hot Buttered Elves”. I swear. Toy prototyping. They’ve gone out of business. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/55 "2003-12-20T04:53:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by El Marko \* > **There’s a place in Morehead City, NC called the Sanitary Fish Market. It’s a restaurant, so I’ve always been puzzled by the “Market” part of the title. And I’ve always been a bit concerned that they felt the need to emphasize the cleanliness of the place in the name.** Do you know when they were opened? In the 1920s there was a major “sanitation” fad in the United States. That’s when the term “sanitary napkin” became commonplace, for one thing; there were also sanitary cigars, sanitary milk bottles, and a chain of restaurants known as Sanitary Lunch. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/56 "2003-12-20T05:06:08Z")
That must be about the time the Sanitary Market Building was added to the Pike Place Market complex here in Seattle. Their big thing was that they wouldn’t allow the shopkeepers to bring their goods in to their stalls with horses. You can imagine how that would make your fruits and veggies more sanitary, especially on hot summer days. Only a mile or so away is the Rubber Tree. They sell condoms. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/57 "2003-12-20T05:12:03Z")
The Sing Hing chinese restaurant. Yes I took a photo of the neon sign in the rain. ---
**Author:** ![mishaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@mishaa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mishaa)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/58 "2003-12-20T11:07:00Z")
In Grapevine, TX there is a shopping center with a store (?) called Breaking Wind. I’ve only seen the name on the center’s sign. I need to stop someday and see what it is… ---
**Author:** ![PlanMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@PlanMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlanMan)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/60 "2003-12-20T16:37:38Z")
There are a few “FU KING CHINESE RESTAURANTs” in north Florida. Also a chain called “CHINEE TAKEE OUTEE” and a “HUNAN WOK” - which if you look quickly reminds one (well this one) of the Donner Party. I think “PEOPLES GAS” was bought out by another company. Around here, the trucks say “TECO” on one line, then, in smaller print below “Peoples Gas”. Dentist in town: DR AIKEN Eye surgeon: DR SCHNIPPER Not a name, but a lawn care company, here in sunny NE Fla., has on the side of their equipment trailers: “FREE SNOW REMOVAL” ---
**Author:** ![myrnajean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@myrnajean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myrnajean)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414/61 "2003-12-20T17:06:40Z")
Tin Lung Chinese Restuarant (need iron lung after eating there?) The Sit & Sip, a nasty dive bar that we all called the Slouch & Slurp instead. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-names-for-businesses/219414.md?page=4)