I always have to laugh when I pass Cosmoprof here in Pasadena.
Cosmoprof, saving the universe from unruly frosh!
I have no idea what the business really is.
Don’t know if it still exists or not…but there used to be a chain of drug stores in Colorado named Skagg Drugs.
Skag was a user name for heroin. I always got a kick out of that.
I forgot about those. I have some bad news for you Grace so brace yourself. We’re are neighbors no longer. After moving to Little Elm I got married and moved out of the great state of Texas to Arkanas. <sniff> Sorry to have mislead you with a false profile.
Marc
Hey, I live in El Paso…
Actually the ultimate insult is that El Paso Gas is no longer headquartered in El Paso. Yes, first we lose the salsa plant and now even our gas business has found greener pastures.
They are now called “El Paso Energy”, I guess they were tired of the snickering too.
Nooooooooo! When did you leave Little Elm? There’s a lot of development going on there and in Prosper. If you’ve been gone awhile, you might not even recognize the place.
December. I was at a house in one of those new developments. Most of the time I lived there you couldn’t even get a pizza delivered. Then some place called “Roadrunner Pizza” opened up. Hmmm…that could be another bad business name I suppose. Kind of like Possum Pizza. It sounds like roadkill.
Marc
Pizza! You’re out in the boonies and you’re worried about pizza? I’d be worried about getting good mexican food. Although there is that one mexican restaurant out by the lake there.
Sorry bibliophage for hijacking the thread.
Beaver, Colorado boasts Beaver Liquors. They market on it too, you should see the T-shirts they sell. One of my more memorable conversations with my mother was when my brother and I tried to explain to her why these T-shirts were popular with the college crowd. “Gee, everyone wears these T-shirts, that must be a good liquor store! Maybe I should buy one to bring home to your Aunt Eileen?” “Ummm, Mom?”
There’s a construction company in eastern North Carolina called Mr. Beaver Home Construction. Not all that unfortunate, until you hear their advertising jingle on television–
Mr. Beaver does it all for you-ooo…
One of the adjuncts to training ofparamedics is the need for realistic scenarios, complete with casualty simulation: “patients” made up with simulated fractures, lacerations, burns etc.
The preferred supplier of the necessities of cas-sim in South Austrlia is a pharmacy located at Dragon Street, Hillcrest.
The additional irony here is that until recently, Hillcrest was the location of a major psychiatric hospital.
Here in Seoul there’s a company called “Dorco”; they haven’t made it big in the English-speaking world… I wonder why?
…and in the little town of Bath, Ontario, right next to the main road, just down from the ferry, lies the… Bath Water Filtration Plant. 
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Marc, I am your neighbor too, Allen.
There was an accounting firm in Lubbock, Texas it was Swindle and Swindle…I swear!!!
I used to live down the street from Liquor Box.
Haj
And anyone driving on Highway 401 west, out of Toronto, has seen the large office building with huge, bright orange letters that read “FAG” – no… I have no idea what it stands for.
Cherry Insurance.
A prosperous business in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, where I used to live. Cherry was the family name, so I suppose it seemed logical to them. But a photo of the shop front once appeared in the late, lamented National Lampoon magazine’s True Facts page under the heading, “You want to insure your what?”
Same magazine, under the heading, “Who Named the Business?” a photo of a shop front that said:
Preparation H Construction Co. Pile Driving Specialists.
Here in sunny Victoria, Australia is the small town of Buchan (that’s Buck-en). Not much there, just the Buchan General Store, the Buchan pub, the Buchan police station, and the tourist attraction, the Buchan caves.
Hey, it makes me giggle.
I’m originally from El Paso. near where i used to live in california was a horrid restuarant named El Paso.
Everyone called it El Paso, Gas-o.
I was pretty tired of that too! 
Somewhere on the net, someone’s got pics of a “Beaver Cleaners”! There’s a place called “Dorko” down the street from where I live, and in Kentucky, they have a “Big Bone Lick State Park”! Then there was the towing company called “Happy Hooker Towing”!
From a friend: Dick Holden Used Cars
Heh.