# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/121 "2019-07-03T02:00:37Z")
> [@Stuntman\_Mike](#): > > No such thread would be complete without a mention of my home town’s very own “ **Bunghole Liquors** ”. > > [https://bungholeliquors.com/about-us/](https://bungholeliquors.com/about-us/) I always wonder how many prank calls they get asking for TP. > [@kayaker](#): > > 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. Remember Whiskey Dick’s in the Strip District? Is that place still around? ---
**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:** [July 3, 2019, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/122 "2019-07-03T11:52:05Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Remember Whiskey Dick’s in the Strip District? Is that place still around? I’m more of a SouthSide drinker. The Strip was all dance clubs. I’ve been to Altar Bar there, but there were a ton of clubs that are now gone; Metropol, Rosebud, Whiskey Dicks, Touch, Donzis, Tequila Willies, The Boardwalk, Have a Nice Day Cafe, Banana Joes, Bar Pittsburgh, G Spot, Sanctuary, Chemistry, Stratus, Mynt, and Plutos to name a few. 😃 ---
**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:** [July 3, 2019, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/123 "2019-07-03T19:26:26Z")
Saw a place over the weekend called Thai Me Up. ---
**Author:** ![Tride](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tride/32/13907_2.png) [@Tride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tride)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2019, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/124 "2019-07-04T23:11:53Z")
A neighbor in Colorado had a small excavation business: “Cheap Hoe.” Up here in Bozeman we have “Auto Body Experience”… ---
**Author:** ![Awgrimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Awgrimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Awgrimm)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/125 "2019-07-05T17:23:03Z")
I feel like I’ve seen several humorous porta-potty business names but the only one I can think of off of the top of my head is “Drop Zone”. ---
**Author:** ![Space\_Vegetable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Space\_Vegetable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Space_Vegetable)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/126 "2019-07-05T21:24:34Z")
A former Pittsburgh takeout place offering Chinese/Mongolian food plus ice cream: Genghis Cones. ([Their logo](https://trademark.trademarkia.com/genghis-cones-73594156.html).) ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/127 "2019-07-06T05:04:32Z")
One I saw in Austria: Studio Hairlich (a pun on “herrlich”, which means “splendid”). I used occasionally to go to a fish and chips place called Rock’n’Roe (= rock salmon/cod’s roe). And somewhere in the UK I think there is a Chinese business called Ho Lee Fook. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/128 "2019-07-06T05:26:58Z")
A Thai restaurant here in Honolulu is called To Thai For. No, we’ve not tried it. A similar thread had the gynecologist [Dr. Harry Beaver](https://health.usnews.com/doctors/harry-beaver-784569) in Fairfax, Virginia. In the Patpong red-light district in Bangkok is a gay bar called Screw Boy. I think even if I were gay, I’d not dare wander in there. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/129 "2019-07-06T13:22:43Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > . . . A similar thread had the gynecologist [Dr. Harry Beaver](https://health.usnews.com/doctors/harry-beaver-784569) in Fairfax, Virginia. . . . Dr. Beaver must be getting pretty old by now. He was (supposedly) practicing when I was in high school, 50 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/130 "2019-07-06T18:49:59Z")
> [@Awgrimm](#): > > I feel like I’ve seen several humorous porta-potty business names but the only one I can think of off of the top of my head is “Drop Zone”. Two I recall are [Here’s Johnny](https://loweringthebar.net/2010/04/man-still-cannot-use-heres-johnny-for-portable-toilet-business-says-trademark-board.html) and Johnny on the Spot. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/131 "2019-07-06T19:40:43Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > A few miles from my house in College Park: [Cluck U Chicken](https://www.cluckuchicken.com/default.aspx) I love Cluck U Chicken, and I really wish there were one close to where I now live. Best chicken sammichs. On the way home from work, I occasionally pass the law offices of Angst & Angst. They specialize in family law. ---
**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/132 "2019-07-06T19:49:56Z")
There was an eating joint called The Greasy Spoon. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/133 "2019-07-06T19:53:14Z")
- As featured in the mockumentary film “Kenny” there was (still is?) an Australian porta-potty outfit called “Splashdown.” - Here in my fair city we have a local grocery place, “The Food Co-op.” I insist on referring to it as either “The Food Coop” or “The Foe-Odd Coe-Op.” - Not exactly the type of businesses being discussed here, but 50 years later honorable mention for the Beatles’ “Apple Corp. LTD” ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/134 "2019-07-06T21:27:35Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > It was thirty years ago, so sure to be long gone. I went to a BBQ place in reno, located in a very narrow storefront. It was _The Squeeze Inn._ Man they had good food. There’s a small chain of Squeeze Inns and Squeeze Burgers in northern California, and an even smaller chain of Squeeze Ins around Reno. An ex of mine’s family ran a place in Wisconsin called **Halldin’s Squeeze In** back in the 70s or so, so they’re probably one of the first. The place used to be just **Halldin’s** but after truckers complained about tight parking and having to squeeze in, the name changed. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/135 "2019-07-06T21:46:45Z")
I haven’t read the whole thread, so sorry if it’s been mentioned, but there used to be a truck stop motel nearby in the Washington city of Tukwila off I-5 near SeaTac Airport named The Tuk-Inn. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2019, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/136 "2019-07-07T00:16:20Z")
There is a liquor store in NYC I thought was called City’s Liquors. It is in fact called City Sliquors. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2019, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/137 "2019-07-07T01:03:06Z")
Isn’t there an (apocryphal?) story about a liquor store near the Hoover Dam, with a sign “Best Liquor Store By A Dam Site”. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2019, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/138 "2019-07-07T01:04:32Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > There’s no “pf” in it. It’s just /f/. And the vowel is pretty much an “uh” said with falling and rising tone. (So, sort of like “fuh?”). [Many audio examples here](https://forvo.com/word/ph%E1%BB%9F/#vi). At least one guy there, a native pronounces it “Foe” like I do, I lived in San Jose for decades. Or you can simply call it “Great noodle soup!” ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2019, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/139 "2019-07-07T01:28:37Z")
I’ve never heard a Vietnamese native pronounce it “foe.” Maybe he didn’t want to embarrass customers? There used to be Happy Lay Mattress Company in San Gabriel, but it wasn’t an intentional “funny.” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2019, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/140 "2019-07-07T02:28:14Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > …Not exactly the type of businesses being discussed here, but 50 years later honorable mention for the Beatles’ “Apple Corp. LTD” Even better than you remember: [Apple Corps - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655.md?page=8)