Can’t forget the classic Nads.
How about Payless ShoeSource?
If I am going to get sores from my shoes - why would it be important to me to pay less for the privilidge?
“Kum & Go” is better than “Pick and Save”, but not, IMHO, as funny as “Pump and Munch”.
Normaltown? What do they call the residents? Wait, lemme guess…The Normals!
Ach, I’m in Tokyo right now, and there are way too many examples to list.
Well, okay. Just one or two.
“Calpis” is a common beverage, as is “Pocari Sweat.” While looking for a comb in a combini (variety store), I came across a bottle of “Man Slime” (blue hair gel).
Cerowyn, I lived in Tokyo for a few years in the mid-80s; I remember Calpis (sounds like “cow piss”) and Pocari Sweat (“What’s a Pocari and why would I &c.”), both Gatorade-like drinks, as I recall.
There used to be a non-dairy creamer for coffee there called Creap, too; is it still available?
Chi Chi’s restautant: it’s hispanic slang for tits.
S & M Auto Repair (What are you doing to my car???!!!)
Giant Drugs (a subsidiary of Giant Foods, a supermarket chain)
Crack Patch.
“Tired of staring at your Plumber’s ass? Try Crack Patch!”
“Got an addiction you can’t shake? Try Crack Patch!”
Nope. It’s a home improvement product to cover, that’s right, a crack in the wall.
There’s a company that manufactures things like concrete pumper trucks, the ones with long extendable booms. The name? Putzmeister. I’m not making this up: their home page.
Or how about the kitchen appliance company SMEG?
Fairy Soap anyone?
– Derleth, who loves VAX-11 assembly but loves MIPS more.
I mentioned this in another thread a while ago. We’ve got cookies here called Otis Spunkmeyer. How about that warehouse type store called BJs?
Crack Cream.
It worked on my hands and face butt that was about it.
I swear to Pete I heard a radio ad last night for Crack Cream. Damn near drove off the road, whilst thinking about this specific thread. I thank you, lieu, for beating me to the punch.
Crack Cream!
Or, there’s always a similar product…
The Bunghole Liquor Store in Peabody, MA.
It is called Normaltown because that is where the “Normal” school was established.
In the late 1800’s an exciting new theory in the US was that teaching was a science, and that teachers could be trained. Various teachers colleges to train public school teachers were established, and were called “Normal Schools”, apparently a reference to the European “Ecole Normale,” or model school.
Eventually, the functions of this particular normal school were moved over to the College of Education at UGA, and the property where the school was located wound up in the hands of the US Government, which explains why there is a Navy base (a Supply School) in Athens, GA.
Now you have made me hungry for cheeseburgers with onions and a pitcher of cold stuff from Allans in Normaltown, and here I sit in Aladamnbama. :o
That Chevy “Nova” thing never made much sense to me–you’d think that if it was true, then the “Yugo” would have sold a lot better in English-speaknig countries…
How about Darkie Toothpaste?
I dunno, doesn’t seem any more morbid to me than Tombstone pizza.
Here in Springfield, we used to have “Ideal Drugs.”
I’m probably the only person in the world who’s bothered by this, but I don’t like the name of Pantene hair care products. It sounds too much like “panties”–what, you’re putting panties on your head?
Thudlow, you say that like it’s a bad thing.
