Why don’t you just change it to L’Echo Base - that ought to shut them up.
Another risky business name I remembered, along the lines of the one mentioned by occ - in North Conway, New Hamphire - S&M Vending. I always imagined the truck filled up with dildoes, ball gags and cock rings.
“Ding, Dong. S&M Vending calling.
Hello Mrs. Nesmith, we have your Bavarian Swivle Fuck Harness, where would you like it installed?”
A story I heard recently, which may or may not be true. The lift manufacturer Otis has a UK head office located in Reading, Berkshire (pronounced “redding”). According to the person who told me the story, the switchboard there answers the phone with “Good morning, Otis Reading”.
In OKC, there’s a Thai restaurant called Bangkok Restaurant. Excellent food, but the running joke was, of course…“Whatcha doin’ for lunch?” “I’m going to Bangkok.”
OK, a few Dutch ones, for your international reading pleasure.
In Amsterdam, there is a construction company called Krot BV (BV equals Ltd.). Now, why is this so funny? The word krot (which in this case is of course the name of the owner, or so I hope) means “hovel”. Yup, I’ll let THOSE guys remodel the attic, honey
In my old hometown of Tilburg, they renamed the univerity in the 50’s after a change in education laws. The name they chose was Katholieke Universiteit Tilburg (I’m sure that I won’t have to translate that one), or K.U.T. for short. And this is funny because kut is simply the Dutch word for “cunt”, if you’ll exucue my… Dutch
Shortly thereafter, the university was once again renamed to Katholieke Universiteit Brabant - after the province Tilburg is in.
I remember about 10 years ago in a suburb north of L.A. (forget the name) there was a Chinese restaurant called the Poo Ping Palace. One-liners are too obvious to list.
Three of my neighbors in Brooklyn – Hank Child, Moe Explicit, and Izzy Pornography – decided to open a photography shop on the next street corner over.
Their establishment is called…you guessed it…the Explicit-Child-Pornography Photographic studios!
The diesel engine dealer here has up a sign that says:
Cummins - Onan
In Conway, where I went to school, for a long time the “B” was not working on the top of the local steakhouse. Never did really want to try: