# Wonderfully funny business names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 28, 2019, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655 "2019-05-28T16:47:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/1 "2019-05-28T16:47:06Z")
Nothing delights me more than a really clever funny business name. just the other day I saw a truck for a landscaping firm called simply “Mowtown,” which is great. It’s not the best in town though. Just minutes from my house is a racquet sports shop called The Merchant of Tennis. And a few minutes in the other direction is a tile sales and installation place called Grout Expectations. What good ones are in your home town? ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/2 "2019-05-28T16:50:13Z")
There’s a waxing place called the Pretty Kitty. We had an ice cream shop called Dairy Air. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/3 "2019-05-28T16:57:00Z")
A few miles from my house in College Park: [Cluck U Chicken](https://www.cluckuchicken.com/default.aspx) Also in College Park is a place called “Pizza Kingdom.” Nothing wrong with that, except on their sign they used a slice of pizza as the “a” in “pizza,” which when seen from the major road, looks like it says, “Pizz Kingdom.” View on Google Maps, as seen from Route 1: [Google Maps](https://goo.gl/maps/FSacfaucjWPiCJGB9) ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/4 "2019-05-28T17:06:33Z")
I interviewed at the Union Fork and Hoe Company across from ye olde Ohio Penitentiary in downtown Columbus in 1984, it was medieval. There were also worn out forkin hoes just down the street hanging out on the corner. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/5 "2019-05-28T17:22:24Z")
When I went to college (University of Florida), I came across a little Chinese takeout place, whose name I always found amusing : Chinee Takee Outee ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/6 "2019-05-28T17:43:51Z")
A new Vietnamese restaurant in Keene, New Hampshire: Pho Keene Great! ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/7 "2019-05-28T18:26:10Z")
Call Main Line Hooker Service when you want a tow truck. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/8 "2019-05-28T18:29:16Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Nothing delights me more than a really clever funny business name. just the other day I saw a truck for a landscaping firm called simply “Mowtown,” which is great. A buddy of mine did landscaping for a company called **All Green Lawncare**. When he started his own landscaping business, he asked his friends to help brainstorm a new name. I got an artist friend to do a mock-up presentation on **Al Green Lawncare** complete with the singer’s likeness and musical notes. He chose another moniker. Another buddy opened a beeroporium right at the start of the craft beer craze. He used the name\*\* [House of 1000 Beers.](http://www.houseof1000beers.com/)\*\* Yes, they have over 1000 unique beers. When I wear one of their tshirts, people tend to laugh/smile. ---
**Author:** ![Stana\_Claus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stana_claus/32/13874_2.png) [@Stana\_Claus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stana_Claus)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/9 "2019-05-28T19:00:00Z")
The hair salons around here seem to compete with each other over the funniest names. There’s a Curl up and Dye, Best Little Hair House in Town, and a Cliptomaniac all within just a few miles of my house. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/10 "2019-05-28T19:11:56Z")
Thai restaurants often go for funny names - There was a Thaitanic restaurant near my old office. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/11 "2019-05-28T19:34:38Z")
There was a restaurant in the kosher area of town called “Burrito Lam”. A play on the Hebrew for “eternal covenant”, _brit olam_. Also in the department of bad Jewish puns, there’s a traveling BBQ that used to be called Hakadosh Barbecue (_Hakadosh Baruch Hu_ means “The Holy One, Blessed Is He”). Then they switched their kosher certification company, and the new rabbis apparently didn’t have a sense of humor about that sort of thing. So now they call themselves The Wandering Q. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/12 "2019-05-28T19:38:11Z")
Nail salon called ‘Get Nailed’, they had a high traffic of men clients. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/13 "2019-05-28T20:04:37Z")
I’ve mentioned [Hung Far Low](https://www.google.com/search?q=hung+far+low&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQ__augr_iAhURK30KHU5HC3cQ_AUIDygC&biw=1920&bih=969#imgrc=QutLAIOI2wxQbM:) here in Portland, now defunct. I also like [Skinny Dick’s Halfway Inn](https://www.google.com/search?q=skinny+dick%27s+halfway+inn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi0rPLJgr_iAhX9JzQIHeV9DCEQ_AUIECgD&biw=1920&bih=969#imgrc=4pDPsqwwuxQ7BM:), just south of Fairbanks, AK. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/14 "2019-05-28T20:13:31Z")
When I was but a teenager, I used to get my hair cut at a place called “Hair It Is!” That’s not all that interesting, but due to the way they jammed all the letters onto their sign, they ended up without any noticeable spacing. So it read “HAIRITIS!” “Sir, I hate to have to tell you this, but the test results are back and it’s not good news. You have a case of the rare disease _hairitis_. [There’s nothing we can do.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O1TbUHGN_k)” ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/15 "2019-05-28T21:17:54Z")
There is an auto body restoration shop near here that specializes in repairing damage from a specific type of weather. It’s called “Oh Hail Naw!”. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/16 "2019-05-28T21:37:40Z")
We had a Vietnamese customer at work. In conversation I asked her where one could get the best Vietnamese food in the area. Without hesitating she steered me toward What the Pho. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/17 "2019-05-28T22:25:07Z")
A friend owns and operates a small coffee shop. He’s a big Star Wars fan, so he called his coffee shop, “Java the Hut.” > [@Pork\_Rind](#): > > When I was but a teenager, I used to get my hair cut at a place called “Hair It Is!” That’s not all that interesting, but due to the way they jammed all the letters onto their sign, they ended up without any noticeable spacing. So it read “HAIRITIS!” Also dealing with letter spacing on a sign, a local bar called the “Top Hat” recently moved. There wasn’t enough space on the new location’s sign for two words, so they crammed them all together: TOPHAT. It’s starting to become known as the “Toe-Fat.” ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/18 "2019-05-28T22:42:00Z")
A bad, but funny, name for a local seafood restaurant: Something Fishy. ---
**Author:** ![Swampwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Swampwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swampwolf)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/19 "2019-05-28T23:03:43Z")
I want Snoop Dog to open a Vietnamese restaurant and call it “Pho Shizzle” ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/20 "2019-05-28T23:07:56Z")
It took a couple of months for Bob to get the name of the new Chinese place near our house: Moon Wok [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655.md?page=2)