# Punny company names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 11, 2005, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-company-names/303372 "2005-05-11T10:01:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-company-names/303372/61 "2005-05-12T17:29:10Z")
There was a men and boys clothing store in Green Bay, WI at one time called “Sons of Britches.” I’m not sure if it was a chain or not. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-company-names/303372/62 "2005-05-12T19:05:40Z")
I’ve seen a truck for a septic tank service whose motto was “We’re thankful for your tankful.” ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-company-names/303372/63 "2005-05-12T20:41:04Z")
I used to be a delivery driver for **Cluck-U Chicken** in College Park, MD. ---
**Author:** ![Pez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5e9695/32.png) [@Pez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pez)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-company-names/303372/64 "2005-05-13T01:15:16Z")
In Prague, Czech Rep, is a pizza delivery service called “Pizza GO home” Always made me smile. Have no ideas how the pizza was 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-company-names/303372/65 "2005-05-13T02:03:56Z")
> [@Mycroft Holmes](#): > > My two favourite punny company names are **Volvo** and **Audi**. > > **Volvo** is Latin for “I roll” which is a perfect name for a car manufacturer. 😃 > > **Audi** is a little more convoluted. The company was originally named **A. Horch & Cie.** after its founder August Horch. “Horch” is also the German word for “listen” (imperative). The Latin imperative for “listen” happens to be “audi”. On another note: the four rings of the Audi logo represent the four companies that form today’s Audi company. They are **DKW** , **Horch** , **Wanderer** and **NSU**. > > Does anyone else have any nice examples of punny company names? I always thought that it was an Audi-mobile. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shadez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Shadez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadez)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-company-names/303372/66 "2005-05-13T05:43:38Z")
Wax paper anyone? [Handy Wacks](http://www.handywacks.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Atheist\_Princess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@Atheist\_Princess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atheist_Princess)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-company-names/303372/67 "2005-05-13T06:14:53Z")
> [@Mycroft Holmes](#): > > Wow, that’s the first time one of my threads ever made Threadspotting. I feel so honoured. > > First of all, I’d like to thank the Academy, and all the lovely people who worked with me on this thread. **picunurse** , I couldn’t have done it without you. **Atherist Princess** , take a bow please. Also, I’d like to thank my great-aunt, my third cousin twice removed, my … _WHACK_ > > What? ::Blushes:: ::Curtsie:: 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SiJESUS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@SiJESUS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiJESUS)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-company-names/303372/68 "2005-05-13T06:19:05Z")
Columbus, OH has some of the worst business names… Nacho Momma’s Restaurant T. Estes Trucking and Knigga Electric don’t ask me to pronounce the last one :smack: Also down in Gallipolis, OH there was Borg Industries… the tempation to put “Resistance is Futile” on their sign was insurmountable ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-company-names/303372/69 "2005-05-13T06:22:21Z")
Used to be a real estate agent in my college town named Dick Longing. Kids would always steal his signs from lawns. Eventually he changed the signs to read “Henley Longing”. I didn’t know Dick was a nickname for Henley, nor even that Henley was a first name, but I’ve alwas wondered why anyone would go by Dick. Especially with that last name! ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-company-names/303372/70 "2005-05-13T06:35:38Z")
I know a guy who started off his business as an auto mechanic, specializing in rebuilds. He then switched careers mid-life, become a massage therapist and Rolfer. Took a bit of remodeling to redo his space for his healing work. He didn’t change his sign though. Still calls it **The Body Shop**. ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-company-names/303372/71 "2005-05-13T13:43:27Z")
In the St. Louis suburbs, “Big Boy’s Steel Erection”. They rent moble cranes. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2005, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-company-names/303372/72 "2005-05-13T13:58:48Z")
> [@](#): > > In the St. Louis suburbs, “Big Boy’s Steel Erection”. They rent moble cranes. In BOston it’s **Shaunessey’s Erections**. My wife and her friends have an in-joke/story about that they caused them to make up T-shirts that read “Were you there for Shaunessey’s Erection?” A few years ago we passed a lot filled with their cranes, all labeled “Shaunessey Erection”, and all tilted at a suggestive angle. \*\*Pepper[/P], ever the photographer, had to get severa shots. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2005, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-company-names/303372/73 "2005-05-14T02:08:34Z")
There’s a take-out chicken place in New Brunswick, New Jersey, near Rutgers University. Its original name was Cluck-U. Some folks were offended and the official name was changed to Cluck University. But that’s not what everybody called it. ---
**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2005, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-company-names/303372/74 "2005-05-14T02:14:33Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > In BOston it’s **Shaunessey’s Erections**. Oh ick. I do not need to think about Dan Shaunessey\* that way. \*Boston Globe sportswriter who bears a striking resemblance to a used Q-tip. With a personality to match. ---
**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2005, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-company-names/303372/75 "2005-05-14T02:22:21Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > In BOston it’s **Shaunessey’s Erections**. Oh ick. I do not need to think about Dan Shaunessey\* that way. \*Boston Globe sportswriter who bears a striking resemblance to a used Q-tip. With a personality to match. ---
**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2005, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-company-names/303372/76 "2005-05-14T02:23:41Z")
I enjoy posting. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2005, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-company-names/303372/77 "2005-05-14T02:42:37Z")
It’s obviously not a preconceived, intentional literary reference, but I always think that Time Warner should have as its slogan “carpe diem.” ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2005, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-company-names/303372/78 "2005-05-14T06:46:58Z")
I often see trucks bearing the words, “WAXIE: the busy bees of sanitary supply,” complete with a bee logo. There’s a street in one of the South Bay Area cities (I forget which one exactly) called Alameda De Los Pulgas, and a restaurant on that street called Flea Street. It’s a literal translation from Spanish, but not really a good name for a restaurant. Just Desserts makes what you would expect. ---
**Author:** ![Gerome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Gerome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gerome)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2005, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-company-names/303372/79 "2005-05-14T13:09:35Z")
Not really pun-tastic, but in Melbourne there’s a gym called “Harmony” right next door to a furniture store called “Equilibrium”. Well, it might be the other way round, but still amusing. I noticed this last week and have been dying for an occasion to mention it. ---
**Author:** ![Cherry2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cherry2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cherry2000)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2005, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-company-names/303372/80 "2005-05-14T16:01:27Z")
BF tells me he once used a law firm in Albany, Oregon that was named _Johnson, Cramm, & Harder_ . How appropriate! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-company-names/303372.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-company-names/303372.md?page=5)