The best part is their phone number, also prominently displayed on their trucks: 1-800-DIAL-GOD.
See, it’s as easy as that.
Speaking of delivery, I love the YELLOW truck company. Whose logo is in that shade of YELLOW…wait, orange!
Jack Chalker wrote a series of novels about a fictional company called G.O.D. and swears he didn’t know an actual such firm existed…
…until one truck with G.O.D. on it pulled up next to him at a stop light one day. Freaked him out.
I see trucks with the name Smurfit-MBI on the roads here. Related company?
Is that any worse than Mahindra & Mahindra?
I always wondered about that as well.
That’s one of those situations where I wondered for awhile, until I realized that it’s probably a FAQ that is on the company’s website. Which indeed it is: apparently deep orange sticks out better at night than yellow.
I suspect a lot of people are linking to their website for giggles, and if I understand Google’s methodology right, that helps their ranking.
There’s a business in the Chicago suburbs called Adolf Funeral Home and Cremation Services. Yes, it has the “and Cremation Services” right on their sign, and I hate to say it always brings up bad associations with the “Adolf” part. They have a bad location, too - funeral home right next to an old age home.
We have a Leavitt Funeral Home.
That always slays me. Although, personally, I think I’m going to have my services at the House of Browns.
There’s a chain of West Indian restaurants in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) called Willy’s Jerk. They have a franchise not far from where I work. At some point, a competitor opened up called “Juicy Jerk’s”…
once again…
When I lived in NYC, there was a “Soon Fat” Chinese take-out place.
There used to be an OB-GYN in western MA named Dr. Finger.
who can forget Big Bone Lick state park. It’s even on Beaver Rd. And yes, there is indeed a Beaver Lick baptist church down the street.
We have a local attorney firm by the name of Grimm & Grimm…we fondly referred to them as The Brothers Grimm.
What were the designers at “http:/ /www.speedofart.com/” thinking?
ETA: And I also forgot about ANY business in French Lick, Indiana…
As long as we’re talking state parks, how about the Bong Recreation Area?
They are an outplacement firm that large companies bring in to help soon-to-be-axed employees transition from employment/relative security to unemployment/job searching/insecurity. I always thought it sounded ironic because if you see them around your workplace late in the year, you would probably be wise to plan only modest Christmas festivities and save your money.
There’s the Clabber Girl brand of baking soda. There’s nothing particularly bad about the name, but I used to be perplexed by their URL, which has since been changed. It was www. clabbergirl2.com. That’s right, “clabbergirl2”. Because with all the people clamoring to use the URL “ClabberGirl”, they were obviously asleep at the switch when they decided to put up a Web site.
We have 'em on this coast, too. Actually, I just made an appointment with one of their sales agents for a quote next week.
She closed with the question, “How did you hear about us?” I told her that they had a contract with another company I worked for about fifteen years ago, and opted not to add that I was reminded of them by an internet messageboard thread about unfortunate company names.
I think most Red Dwarf fans would agree that Italian appliance manufacturer Smeg has an unfortunate name… 
I loved seeing these trucks as a kid back in the 80’s. Seriously, what kid wouldn’t love seeing a truck that said “humpin to please” in HUGE letters?!
http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/kevin_mcclintic/2003/aug26/hump66.jpg
There used to be a video rental place in Chicago called Tapeworm. I suppose someone was thinking “books:bookworm::tapes:…” Their logo was an anthropomorphic caterpillar.
I once came across some inexpensive spatulas sold under the brand name Rubber Queen. When I think of the phrase “rubber queen,” kitchen implements is not the first thing, or even the second thing, that comes to mind.
You beat me to this one! There’s a Rentokil plant service in Chicago as well. I can’t look at the name without thinking, “Rentokil - when rent-to-own isn’t enough.”
Granted this isn’t a corporate name, but it seems to fit the theme well. Living at a certain apartment house in my neighborhood probably is a good deal more pleasant than you would think, judging by the name of the place.
Of course knowing it’s pronounced “Levitt” blunts the gag a little.
In the Buffalo area, there are several mortuaries called Amigone. Put a ? after it if you have to.
It must suck trying to get deliveries to the Crapi Apartments.