# (un?)intentionally funny signs, ads, & business names, revisited **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 16, 2005, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587 "2005-04-16T02:42:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/1 "2005-04-16T02:42:07Z")
I know we’ve done stuff like this before, listing business names, signs, and ads which may or may not have been intended to amuse. But here we go again. There’s a restaurant a few blocks away from me which has a sign that I find hilarious–or maybe it’s just my twisted mind at work. You tell me. It reads: [so and so’s] family restaurant and coffee shop. **We Bake Our Own.** Their own _what_? I know what I’m thinking, but I’m still afraid to ask. * * * And then there are a few that just seem slightly incongruous or maybe just choppy: 1. DIVORCE, BANKRUPTCY and typing 2. Shoe and Repair. We make keys. Got any you’d like to share? ---
**Author:** ![Bag\_of\_Mostly\_Water](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bag_of_mostly_water/32/1029_2.png) [@Bag\_of\_Mostly\_Water](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bag_of_Mostly_Water)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/2 "2005-04-16T02:52:20Z")
There’s an automotive radiator repair shop I pass that has the tag line “A great place to take a leak.” ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/3 "2005-04-16T02:57:53Z")
There’s a septic company in the California high desert that has the motto:\*\* “We’re Number One In The Number Two Business”\*\* ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/4 "2005-04-16T04:51:38Z")
There’s one around here called **Caskets N’ More.** I can only speculate as to what “more” could mean. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/5 "2005-04-16T14:46:16Z")
Newspaper clipping on cow-orkers cubicle wall: (Truckstop, gas station) “Kids with GAS eat free!” ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/6 "2005-04-16T16:29:27Z")
One day about 15 years ago in Hackensack, NJ, I saw a company called **Abrasive Consultants, Inc.** (they apparently dealt in sandpaper, emery, etc.) and the **Jakey Convenience Store.** (“Jakey” in the midwest means shoddy or cheaply built, but in Hackensack I guess it’s just someone’s name). ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/7 "2005-04-16T16:46:30Z")
I remember the trucks of **Camelback Movers**. Their logo: “ **Humpin’ to please!** ” ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/8 "2005-04-16T16:48:01Z")
Also **Hernia Movers**. Their slogan is “ **The potentate of totin’ freight** ”. ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/9 "2005-04-16T17:23:43Z")
In the yellow pages: Seegars Fence Co: “Dependable Erection Since 1949” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wonderwench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/35a633/32.png) [@wonderwench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderwench)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/10 "2005-04-16T17:28:05Z")
One of my favorites was a Chinese restaurant on University Ave. in Berkeley. They had a big handwritten sign in the window that said: HUMAN FOOD Guess they ran out of cats. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/11 "2005-04-16T17:36:28Z")
For years in my hometown I was amused to see [SIZE=2] **Lemmen’s Used Cars** [/SIZE] Now, there’s someone who needed to change their name… ---
**Author:** ![wonderwench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/35a633/32.png) [@wonderwench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderwench)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/12 "2005-04-16T17:37:50Z")
> [@2nd Law](#): > > For years in my hometown I was amused to see > > [SIZE=2] **Lemmen’s Used Cars** [/SIZE] > > Now, there’s someone who needed to change their name… The late SF Chronicle columnist Herb Caen called this a namefreak. He would periodically have a few in his column - very funny stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/13 "2005-04-16T17:46:08Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > Also **Hernia Movers**. Their slogan is “ **The potentate of totin’ freight** ”. Oh, sweet baby jesus, I wish I had something I needed to move, so I could call these guys. That’s gotta be the best slogan ever! I wouldn’t care if they broke all my breakables and lost the family photos. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/14 "2005-04-16T17:57:11Z")
Then there’s the subcontractor in Texas called Mammoth Erections. Ironically enough, while the name conjures up images of pr0n spam, Googling “Mammoth Erections” provides dozens of links referencing the funny business name, but only one or two links actually talking about, well, mammoth erections. ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/15 "2005-04-16T18:00:41Z")
Cambridge. MA residents will be familiar with Long Funeral Home on Mass Ave, with the motto “Long Funeral Service”. plynck ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/16 "2005-04-16T18:09:05Z")
Here in San Diego there’s a Chinese fast food restaurant that dwells on the bottom floor of a condo building. Right next to the restaurant’s name sign (“Wok Something or Rather”) the condo advertisers have posted a “Cat’s Welcome!” ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/17 "2005-04-16T18:10:08Z")
Premature posting! Here it is again: Here in San Diego there’s a Chinese fast food restaurant that dwells on the bottom floor of a condo building. Right next to the restaurant’s name sign (“Wok Something or Rather”) the condo advertisers have posted a neon-lit “Cats Welcome!” ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/18 "2005-04-16T18:18:40Z")
[This](http://www.google.ca/local?hl=en&lr=&q=hung-gay&near=Vancouver,+BC&sa=X&oi=locald&radius=0.0&latlng=49250494,-123111934,902961195570457541) is the uh, _biggest_ asian food importer in Vancouver. I’ve noticed that in the last year they’ve repainted their trucks and warehouse to read “H.G. Enterprises.” I guess they got sick of their clients being scandalized trying to find them on Google. 😃 There’s a (really good) Pho place near my house that has a mural depicting a skyline, captioned _THE CITY WHERE DREAMS COME TRUE_. The strange thing is, it prominently features the CN Tower and the SkyDome. (ie; it represents _Toronto_, way over on the other side of the continent. WTF?) ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/19 "2005-04-16T18:27:23Z")
There’s a booze store not too far from my apartment called the Liquor Box. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Violaceous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Miss\_Violaceous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Violaceous)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/20 "2005-04-16T18:49:18Z")
There was a shop in Burbank, CA that had a big sign in the front window that proclaimed “Oil Paintings Made From Photographs!” Right below the sign hung a copy of The Last Supper. :dubious: That one’s a head-scratcher. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587.md?page=2)