# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/41 "2019-05-29T17:24:39Z")
There was a podiatrist in DC in the 80’s named Dr. Korn. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/42 "2019-05-29T18:16:08Z")
A few years ago there was an excavation company around that called itself Biggus Diggus. I haven’t seen it lately, though. ---
**Author:** ![Rhodes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhodes/32/273_2.png) [@Rhodes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhodes)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/43 "2019-05-29T18:44:52Z")
There’s a few flexible tubing shops called “House of Hose”. I’ve seen dumptrucks labeled “Dirt Done Cheap”. Looks like that’s also the name of a carpet cleaner in AZ. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/44 "2019-05-29T19:52:03Z")
There’s a salon in my home town called “It’s Only Hair,” which frankly wouldn’t really be the attitude I would want in a salon, noble though it is. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/45 "2019-05-29T21:04:15Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > 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 I think Takee Outee is some sort of chain or franchise. We had a place that used to have another name but at some point, maybe 10 years or so(and still today) it became Takee Outee. I’ve not been there, it’s near enough we often pass it, but not so near that we’d order from there when we have a half dozen or more places much closer. There’s another place that had a name that amused me as a kid, Wok Inn. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/46 "2019-05-30T00:34:29Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > 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) Pizz Kingdom? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/47 "2019-05-30T01:29:33Z")
We had a salon called Public Hair. Their sign was in a font that made it easily misread. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/48 "2019-05-30T01:34:49Z")
The Chinese restaurant House of Poon went out of business, but we now have Thai Me Up. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/49 "2019-05-30T01:55:43Z")
A Chinese restaurant in Newport, Kentucky called “Wok Dis Way” and it has footprints painted on the sidewalk outside leading up to it. A pet grooming salon near me called “Ben Fur”. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/50 "2019-05-30T05:07:39Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > We had a salon called Public Hair. Their sign was in a font that made it easily misread. Did they do Brazilian waxes? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/51 "2019-05-30T05:11:59Z")
> [@BwanaBob](#): > > There was a podiatrist in DC in the 80’s named Dr. Korn. I once filled a prescription written by a urologist named Dr. Wiener. There also used to be a podiatrist in Chicago named Dr. Frank Zappa. ---
**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 30, 2019, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/52 "2019-05-30T08:06:18Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > There also used to be a podiatrist in Chicago named Dr. Frank Zappa. A local lawyer is named Ronald McDonald. He’s no clown–he’s actually a very well respected legal practitioner–and nobody, including the local judges, minds if he prefers to be called “Ron,” inside or outside of the courtroom, for obvious reasons. Mr. McDonald is old and close to retirement, and I think it’s safe to say that he received his name long before the fast food chain invented its clown. ---
**Author:** ![Noel\_Prosequi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b19c9b/32.png) [@Noel\_Prosequi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noel_Prosequi)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/53 "2019-05-30T08:10:20Z")
In line with the “Curl up and dye”, there is a hairdresser in the Simpsons called Hairy Shearers. Nyuk nyuk nyuk. A mate of mine had always wanted to open a delicatessen called “Cheeses Christ”. And a little googling reveals you can get a cheese grater called Cheesus Christ (slightly different spelling). ---
**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 30, 2019, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/54 "2019-05-30T08:14:48Z")
> [@Noel\_Prosequi](#): > > A mate of mine had always wanted to open a delicatessen called “Cheeses Christ”. And a little googling reveals you can get a cheese grater called Cheesus Christ (slightly different spelling). Reminds me of the time a friend of mine went up to the deli counter at the local supermarket, and asked if they had any cheese from Israel. Upon being told that they didn’t, he said, “What, you have no cheeses of Nazareth?” ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/55 "2019-05-30T23:58:21Z")
Dew Drop Inn ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/56 "2019-05-31T00:23:38Z")
When I lived in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, there was a candy shop with an English sign saying “Butt Sweet House”. Never quite could get myself to go in there. ETA: And it’s closed… [Bittersweet ending for Butt Sweets Shop | Uae – Gulf News](https://gulfnews.com/uae/bittersweet-ending-for-butt-sweets-shop-1.2243010) ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/57 "2019-05-31T00:26:47Z")
There’s this place here in town with a giant sign “KirkhamIT” but I can only read it as “Kirk Hammet” (guitarist for Metallica) ---
**Author:** ![I.Dunno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9f8e36/32.png) [@I.Dunno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I.Dunno)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/58 "2019-05-31T05:29:56Z")
In the St. Louis area there is a company named Big Boy’s Steel Erection. They erect steel stuff dontcha know. It always brings a smile to see their trucks around town. I’ve often wondered what it’s like to have the job answering the phone there, especially for a member of the fairer sex. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/59 "2019-05-31T05:48:51Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > There’s this place here in town with a giant sign “KirkhamIT” but I can only read it as “Kirk Hammet” (guitarist for Metallica) My town’s recycling bins say “GO ALL IN” and I know I am not the only one who thinks it looks like “GG ALLIN.” > **[Recycling - Waste Commission](https://www.wastecom.com/recycling/)** > > Rethink Recycling Scott Area Recycling Center receives and processes all of the residential recyclables from Scott County Communities.  Watch what happens when recyclables arrive at our facility! What Goes in Your Cart? Glass bottles & jars:... We also have some car washes called “Supermatic” and I always read it as “Spermatic.” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/60 "2019-05-31T05:51:37Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > A local lawyer is named Ronald McDonald. > > He’s no clown–he’s actually a very well respected legal practitioner–and nobody, including the local judges, minds if he prefers to be called “Ron,” inside or outside of the courtroom, for obvious reasons. Mr. McDonald is old and close to retirement, and I think it’s safe to say that he received his name long before the fast food chain invented its clown. I read somewhere else that this renowned oncologist has been called “Bud” since childhood and prefers to be called that for reasons that are now obvious (to many of us, anyway). > **[Donald L. Trump](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_L._Trump)** > > Donald Lynn "Skip" Trump (born July 31, 1945) is an American oncologist who has been the executive director and chief executive officer of the Inova Schar Cancer Institute in Falls Church, Virginia, since January 2015. He is not related to former United States President Donald J. Trump. > Trump grew up in Hudson, New York. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Johns Hopkins University, where he also completed his fellowship and residency. > Trump's first academic appointment was ... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655.md?page=4)