Internet (or Ford) Exploder, Nutscrape, Taco Hell, Home Despot (or Deathspot), Pizza Slut/Butt, WallyWorld, check.
Fred Meyer – Freddie’s
Burger King – Booger Kinky
Quizno’s – Jizzno’s
Papa Murphy’s – Papa Smurfy’s
Safeway – Snaveway
Jack in the Box – Gag in the Bag or Jack in the Crack
Muchas Gracias – Mucho Gass Me Ass
Winco – Weeeeenco
Dairy Queen – Hairy Queen
Fry’s – Geek Mecca (newspaper ads are “the crack page”)
Radio Shack – Radio Crap
Wienerschnitzel – Der Veenervagger
Long John Silver’s – Long Dong Slivers
Windows – WinBloze (as in “it crashes whenever the…”)
Washington Mutual – Wamu
Wendy’s – Spendy’s
Burrito – Weewoh (juvenile pronunciation of my daughter’s that stuck)
Any cheese dip product is “sleaze cheese”
We used to have a local diner that was painted red with black & white cows on it–I’m sure it actually had a name but to us it was always “wanna have breakfast at the cows?” Man, I miss that place…
'Round these parts there’s a restaurant/country store called The Red Rooster. We call it The Scarlet Cock or Le Coque Rouge. There’s also grocery store a couple of towns over called Hanselpacker’s that we call Hanselfucker’s.
Burger King - BK Lounge
Wal-Mart - Sprawl-Mart
Save-Easy - Slave-Easy
Superstore - Stupidstore
McDonald’s - Mickey D’s
Kentucky Fried Chicken - Dirty Bird
convenience store - 'beenience store
There are probably more but none are coming to me right now.
My favorite is for Circuit City (electronics mart) to become Suck It Silly (for no obvious reason than that people tend to laugh)
Kroger is Kay Roger
100 Oaks (first mall in the Nashville area back in the mid-to-late 60’s) was Billion Oaks until I saw a sign that had bled or run together so that it looked like 1000 Aks
Best Western is As Good A Western As Any
Long ago a favorite fern-bar/pub/English inn sort of place was Jolly Ox, which became Pissed Off Jackass for the regulars
WalMart - Hell Mart
KFC - Kentucky Fried Rat
Spaghettios - Can O’Crap or Crap Boyardee
Toys R-Us - Toys B-We
There are more that will occur to me as I walk away from the puter.
My brother had a knack for combining soundalikes and adding syllables. The Dane County Coliseum - the site of many a concert back in the 70’s when we did that stuff - became the Drain Country Colimuseum (read that carefully). I STILL can’t say it right to this day!
Yeah, that was a surprise for me last year going thru that after not having done so for a year. With all of my senses telling me I’m going in the wrong direction, especially since I’d gone RIGHT to go RIGHT so many times before. There’s gotta be a political joke in there somewhere
There certainly was, a few weeks back; former right-wing governor Jim Gilmore got stuck in the interchange when we had an ice storm that shut the whole thing down . I live 3 miles away from the interchange and go through it several times a week and I find the best thing to do is just concentrate on your own route and ignore all the myriad other flyovers, or you’ll get dizzy, and find yourself exiting at the next opportunity and seeking out a plate of pasta because you’ve just been overcome with a craving for spaghetti.
Oooh - just remembered: “Tipsy McStaggers”. Stolen from the Simpsons, where it was the name of a chain restaurant. We use it to refer to the step-above-fast-food places such as Ruby Tuesday’s, Chili’s, Applebee’s etc.
Newspapers:
Toronto Star = Toronto Scar.
Toronto Sun = Toronto Stun.
Globe and Mail = Groan and Wail.
National Post = Notional Pest.
Bancroft Times = Bankrupt Crimes.
The freeway known as King’s Highway No. 401, however, has earned the title Evil Death Highway of Doom.
There’s a seafood place here called “The Bone Fish” I call it The Blow Fish. I don’t know why, it just sounds gross to me. The food there is actually outstanding.