Risky business names

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?”

There’s a burger joint here in town called “Buns Over Texas”. I have no idea why, there’s nothing risque about the place.

…but one more won’t hurt.

In Buffalo, there is a very large funeral home. Owned by the Amigone family.

Picture the sign.

There were several Kum & Go’s where I went to college…we named them

  1. Ejaculate-Evacuate

or

  1. Spurt & Split

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”.

… and what about the time when German conglomerate Seimens opened a very large office in Staines, Middlesex.

“Good afternoon, Siemens, Staines…”

When they put you on hold, do they play “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay”?

Thanks for the posts everybody.

I have no idea whether or not it’s still around, but there was a Chinese restaurant in Portland, Oregon in the '70s named Hung Far Low.

North of here, there’s a school district of the combined towns of Galesville, Ettrick and Trempealeau.

The school is called G-E-T High.

Going along with the S&M theme, there’s a law firm here in RI called Mastors & Servant.

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.”

( …ummmmm…what grade are we in? )

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 :wink:

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 :smiley:
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!

Um, that story wasn’t exactly, uh, true. I’m sorry.

we have one in Lansing, too. and you can’t read the menu out loud:

Pad Prick Phuc Dam…

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:

ONANZA

Not as funny as the ones you’ve all mentioned but there is a high tech company in Montreal, Quebec called “Zero Knowledge”.

Yup, that the bunch I want helping me with my business IT problems.