There is a company that is named “Homedics”. I can’t decide whether that is supposed to be pronounced “Ho Medics” or “Home Dics”, but neither of them sound very good. What the hell were they thinking of, is what I want to know.
Anyway, so, how ya doin? Long time no see.
I dunno, but I always heard it in my head as
home medics
but run together like.
I use a moisturiser called “Glysomed”, which I always pronounced “Glyso-med”. A lady I used to work with, however, asked me if she could borrow my hand cream once, and told me that Glys-omed was her favourite brand.
Then again, this is a lady who once saw “Happy Birthday, Bubba!” posted on the bulletin board one day, and slowly read aloud: “Happy…birthday…Booba? Who’s Booba?”
I miss her.
Homedics is a silly name, but I, too, always read it as “Home Medics” run together.
The first time I saw a television ad for peoplepc, it was with the muting on. My mind wanted to parse it as pe-o-plepc.
Clearly, they sell medics for a ho. Or for the home. Or for homos. Hm.
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As god is my witness, today I drove by a business on Tonawanda, New York, called the
“Amigone Funeral Home.”
Seriously.
It’s hookers who are trained in CPR. It’s tragic for everybody when a john dies in the arms of a ho.
In a Goldie Hawn movie (Protocol?) she played a woman whose husband had a fatal heart attack on their wedding night. His last words were, “I’m coming!”
There used to be a company called ViaGrafix which made computer training CDs. I heard of more than one IT person who was quizzed by the corporate purchasing department wanting to know why he wanted the company to pay for a Viagra Fix.
Here in town is a meat store called “Western Butchery.” I like that one.
Years ago I used to deal with a company that sold absorbent materials for spill control. They were called “Super Pig.”
How bizarre. I mean, Ton-a-wanda?
Publix = Pube Licks
That was Private Benjamin. 
The company I used to work for had a client called Elf Lubricants. It still makes me giggle just thinking about it. Lubricants for elves? Made by elves? Made with elves? I took to calling it “Keebler K-Y” in my head.
My husband pointed this out and it gets us rolling every time we see it.
CBS and their new public service messages called “cbscares”.
Keep an eye on your children playing in the street so they don’t get snatched up or run over by a car because…
… CB scares.
There’s a local car dealership called O’Neill Auto around here, and their license plate rims have their website on them - oneillauto.com.
I always read it as “One Ill Auto.”
When TRW sold off its credit reporting division, which was sold again to General Universal Stores, the company still kept the TRW name for a year while they looked for a new one. As is the custom, they went to a marketing agency for ideas. ‘Experían’ (the elongated ‘dot’ on the i does not indicate an accent, but is intended to show an upward-moving, forward-thinking company – i.e., it’s a logo, and the actual name is Experian) was chosen because it connotes ‘experience’ in dealing with financial matters.
Of course, I immediately thought of the (relatively) nearby Hyperion Sewage Treatment Plant. 
Where I live we have TV ads for a money-lending business called Get-A-Yes. Their phone number is displayed at the bottom as 1-800-GETAYES. It took me several viewings to figure out that it wasn’t “get ayes.”
Both mean the same thing, though, come to think of it.
Korn/Ferry, International.
But it’s only silly because I kept hearing the name on the radio and finally saw it in writing when I did a search to find out who the heck would call their company Cornfairy.
Yup. I figured a corn fairy was either a minion of Ceres or a short haul grain barge.