Are there other words that can be pulled apart that have oddly ironic or funny meanings?
THere are plenty of anagrams, but I’m interested in words where you don’t have to change the order of the letters…
“Hey, man, did you know that ‘IF’ is the middle word in ‘LIFE’?”
– The Photographer
Okay, not exactly what you’re after, but it will do until I think of something better.
The Notable Furniture Co.
[Alex Trebek]“That’s ‘Pen Is Mightier’, Mr. Connery”.[/Trebek]
When you ASSUME you make an ASS out of U and ME.
together / to get her
I once saw a whole list of websites that, when spelled out in sentence form, were perfectly respectable. But once they were crammed together to form a web name, they were all pretty wrong! “www dot therapist dot com” was one of them. I’ll see if I can dredge up some of the others…
Good ones so far! Here’s another gem that isn’t what the OP is after, but I can’t resist:
soy sauce
It means “I am a willow tree” in Spanish.
Manslaughter = Man’s Laughter
(oddly enough, in German, the word for slaughter 'Schlachen" also contains the German word for “laughter” - “lachen”)
his-story. Not quite what you wanted, but close/
Well, I can vouch for the fact that, in the early days of the commercial web, a plant nursery in the small town of Mole Station, NSW, Australia, really did register and use the domain molestationnursery.com. Mole Station, if written without a space, seems to meet your criterion.
They now have the domain http://www.molerivernursery.com/. It is all quite innocent.
Similarly, www. penisland. com purported to be a website selling pens (although I believe in this case it was a deliberate joke rather than a mistake).
There used to be a software company called Via Grafix. They registered their domain as www. viagrafix.com. It got thousands of hits per day from people looking for a Viagra fix.
How about “The notable doctor was not able to operate because he had no table”?
Yeah, another one on the list was “Experts Exchange”, which now uses a hyphen in its URL. “expertsexchange” tends to get parsed rather differently.
A domain name with a double meaning is called a slurl.
Ah, I’ve seen that list, too. There was an Italian power-generating company on it: www.powergenitalia.com
A site I used to visit quite a bit, that invited computer experts to exchange tips: www.expertsexchange.com. (They’ve since added a hyphen as a word break.)
ETA: I should reload a thread before posting (or preview my response). A tip of the hat to you, yabob.
harass / her ass meant
On “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” Charlie was trying to explain that he was a “Philanthropist”, but it came out: “Full On Rapist”.
“I’ll take ANAL BUM COVER for 7000.”
penisland.net is a great (less than serious) example of that.