# Unintentionally evil (if perhaps morbidly funny) things you've seen **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 15, 2013, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439 "2013-05-15T18:44:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![MacLir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@MacLir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacLir)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/101 "2013-05-20T15:19:54Z")
> [@Nerdessence](#): > > There’s a funeral home that used to bear the sign Butcher Mortuary. That one always made me laugh, especially because it was in a small town. > > Now, it goes by the boring: Todd Funeral Home (Butcher Chapel). You do realize “tod” is German for “death”, right? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/102 "2013-05-20T15:48:51Z")
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina in 1914, precipitating WWI. The Winter Olympics were held there in 1984. One of the US television networks had a logo of a skier, cross hairs of a scope, and said, “Set your sights on Sarajevo!” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/103 "2013-05-20T15:59:48Z")
There’s a Redneck Street running though Moonachie to Little Ferry, New Jersey. I’ve always wondered how people who live there get anyone to believe their address. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/104 "2013-05-20T16:51:19Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > When I was much younger - Right after a double-mint gum commercial on TV where the jingle is a sing-song voice going “double your pleasure double your fun” - > The local newscaster comes on right after the commercial to do a 5 second news promo and says, “Double Homicide. Details tonight at ten.” I am reminded of a time early in the AIDS epidemic, listening to a radio news story about rising HIV infection rates. After that the station went to a commercial break for a (then) popular appetite suppressant candy, with the announcer’s voice saying “Lose all the weight you want with Ayds!!” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/105 "2013-05-20T22:44:16Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > I am reminded of a time early in the AIDS epidemic, listening to a radio news story about rising HIV infection rates. After that the station went to a commercial break for a (then) popular appetite suppressant candy, with the announcer’s voice saying “Lose all the weight you want with Ayds!!” :eek: Poor Ayds. They came out in the wrong era. Also, there is an Australian soft drink [unfortunately](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome) called “[SARS](http://www.nsitt.com/2012/07/02/sars-soft-drink-from-australia/)” (after sarsaparilla, I think). Not evil/morbid, but another Australian(?) product, a depilatory, is called “Nads.” I remember first seeing the commercial as a teenager, it was extremely funny then. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/106 "2013-05-21T13:30:32Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > There’s a Redneck Street running though Moonachie to Little Ferry, New Jersey. > > I’ve always wondered how people who live there get anyone to believe their address. My aunt lives on Hardup Road in Albany, GA, pronounced just like you think. Her kids did sometimes have school officials not believe them. (And it was, in the past, seriously hard up.) Bizarrely, in the fantastic documentary _All My Babies_ (about the black midwife who we believe probably delivered my youngest aunt and uncle), which is an amazing cultural record and one of those Smithsonian Important Films, the second birth (which is staged) happens in a horrible little shack on Hardup Road. And I totally recognized it. Couldn’t believe it. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/107 "2013-05-21T21:09:32Z")
Some years ago there was a terrible housefire in Montgomery, AL that killed an elderly homeowner. This is why I and many other people watching felt bad for laughing when the newscaster said “Firemen said that the homeowner that Mrs. \_\_\_ was cooking when the flames started.” ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/108 "2013-05-21T23:53:31Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina in 1914, precipitating WWI. > > The Winter Olympics were held there in 1984. > One of the US television networks had a logo of a skier, cross hairs of a scope, and said, “Set your sights on Sarajevo!” And then less than 10 years later it was the site of Sniper’s Alley. Wickedly perverse closing of the circle. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/109 "2013-05-22T15:02:38Z")
> [@Renifer](#): > > Why would there be chains? Addy was never on a slave ship; she was born on a plantation in North Carolina. Her parents were likely born in America too. > And most of the items are from her life as a free person in Philadelphia. Even her signature dress was a symbol of her new free life (though some items, like her doll, did carry over from her days as a slave.) I believe her doll, Ida Bean, was actually a present from her mother for their first “free” Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![March](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@March](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/March)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/110 "2013-05-25T04:13:18Z")
My wife and I were on a motorcycle trip when I saw a sign that made me do a U turn to go back and photograph it. The large sign said “\_\_\_\_\_\_\_County Sanitary Landfill” In the background there were rows and rows of gravestones in the large Church graveyard behind the sign. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/111 "2013-05-25T04:40:17Z")
I used to see a gynecologist named Dr. Clapp. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/112 "2013-05-26T05:48:08Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > They’ve added several historical dolls lately. In the interests of being “collectable” they retire and add dolls with regularity. I don’t think that’s the reason. “With regularity” seems to mean once, in 2010. And they’ve kept some of the oldest dolls, without changing them at all. (At least if there were different versions, each version could be collectable.) I think it is more likely to be due to more modern sensibilities. As my sister recently pointed out to me after going through the books on a nostalgia binge, the American Girl series seems to be about teaching American history to young girls. And what is the trend in American history classes now? There is an emphasis put on the non-white parts of history that most of us didn’t learn, a lot of stuff about immigration, and a more modern focus. All of which are represented by the changes in the American Girl book series. And whence go the books, so go the dolls. ---
**Author:** ![Cmoore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Cmoore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cmoore)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/113 "2013-05-26T18:37:34Z")
I once bought a fabric detergent from the supermarket that was called cyclon biological. I took it out of the bag at home and something clicked in my mind, on the logo the biological was shortened to B and the tagline was “keeps whites white!” ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/114 "2013-05-26T20:22:28Z")
Like 100 dead tree versions of our company’s sustainability report stuffed in a cabinet, covered in dust. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/115 "2013-05-27T16:13:23Z")
There was a motel behind my apartment building when I was 13. The “e” fell off the sign so it said “Weekly Rats”. ---
**Author:** ![jsquire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@jsquire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsquire)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/116 "2013-05-29T02:41:59Z")
> [@InternetLegend](#): > > I used to see a gynecologist named Dr. Clapp. A notable local urologist is named Dr. Dick Tapper. He does a lot of vasectomies. He’s getting old and has a younger partner, Dr. Wang. I am not making any of this up. ---
**Author:** ![Chipacabra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@Chipacabra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chipacabra)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/117 "2013-05-29T07:56:52Z")
It’s not exactly capital E evil, but it still weirds me out that Dairy Queen stuck with calling their white+black=brown drink a Moolatte. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/118 "2013-05-29T13:11:45Z")
> [@jsquire](#): > > A notable local urologist is named Dr. Dick Tapper. He does a lot of vasectomies. > > He’s getting old and has a younger partner, Dr. Wang. > > I am not making any of this up. Can you cite their webpage? ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/119 "2013-05-29T13:37:00Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > My steak was too well-done. > > Regards, > Shodan The only thing better would be is if the Nagasaki Barbecue’s motto is: Cooked in a flash! ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/120 "2013-05-29T14:35:20Z")
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