It’s above the Arlington Pediatric Care, but I think it might be a real ad, mixed in with the others. I’ll bet you see something different. Well the V with the blue dot above it (now) looks like a women with her legs up in the air.
When Compaq bought Tandem we wondered if they would be called Comdem or Tampaq.
Wierd, I get no ad at all in the spot you’re talking about.
Oh well, I went and looked at their logo at their website. I guess I can see it. 
-FrL-
How about “Nads” hair removal?
Oh, lord. That one almost killed me.
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Really! I remember watching the infomercial for this when it was first introduced and them saying that the product was named for the inventor’s daughter Nadine. I can imagine what it was like, cheering HER on in school competitions: “Go NADS!!”
What am I missing about “La Crosse”?
It’s Quebécois slang for wanking. (Who knows that in Winsconsin?)
How about Bimbobakeries?
About a month before the car came out it was mentioned on the news, otherwise no one would have known it. But since a friend of mine that lives in La Crosse it always kinda stuck with me.
How about the Mitsubishi? Pajero?
It’s actually pronounced Beembo, but yeah, you’re right, it looks pretty funny in print and on packaging and on really big trucks!
At Alice Cooperstown restaurant in downtown Phoenix (owned by Alice Cooper), they have a giant hotdog named Randy Johnson’s Big Unit, named after the the 6’10" baseball player.
CRAP – the name of the Conservative Reform Alliance Party, which was chosen when the Canadian Conservative party merged with some brethern further to the right.
This probably qualifies as “colorful” instead of “unfortunate”, but Service Supply Co. of Indianapolis (which sells hardware supplies) calls itself “The House Of A Million Screws”.
The slogan appears (or used to appear) on the cover of their catalog, which is very impressive. I don’t know if Eric Burdon recorded a jingle for them, but he should have.
Oh, I forgot a local one. In the town I grew up in there was a dry cleaner called Johnson Cleaners. They must’ve had some sense of humor about themselves, because they sold tshirts with a guy with his pants around his ankles on them that said “Drop Your Pants at Johnson Cleaners.” There was another angle I don’t think they thought of - or at least they didn’t know how to react, when my friend and I called and asked how much it would cost to get our johnsons cleaned.
I always thought the “cavalier” was one of the all time worst-named cars in history. Did they not notice that a secondary, but still very common meaning of the word was “careless?” At Chevy, we’re cavalier about quality!
In more recent car-naming fiascos, the Chevy “crossfire.” It could mean an engine malfunction OR a deadly spray of bullets. I can’t really think of the meaning of the word that isn’t something horrible. Just remember folks - don’t get killed in the crossfire!
There was also the Chevy Citation, although maybe they were impying that it was speedy.
I always sort of wondered about the Toyota Cressida, too. Not exactly good implications connected with that name.
Why not just go direct and drive a KIA?
There’s the prototype for GM’s first electric car, which was called the Impact. :dubious: Not my idea of a good car name.