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Kim

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #400 on: 15 June, 2018, 12:58:48 am »

T42

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #401 on: 15 June, 2018, 07:44:36 am »
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

rogerzilla

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #402 on: 19 June, 2018, 09:56:02 pm »
There is a van parked near me for "Axis Signs".  Sadly, they didn"t add a swastika, the Rising Sun flag and Mussolini's fasces.  But they could probably knock a few up.
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hellymedic

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #403 on: 19 June, 2018, 10:17:42 pm »
Basil Towers is a facility in Weymouth for treating addiction etc.

I keep thinking of Mr Fawlty...


Basil

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #404 on: 19 June, 2018, 10:52:47 pm »
 :o
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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #405 on: 20 June, 2018, 07:33:20 am »
https://goo.gl/images/ykHvSn

probably neither vegan nor vegetarian

T42

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #406 on: 20 June, 2018, 09:06:50 am »
Might go well with some of this*:



And the maker's name would be pronounced "crotchy".

* OK, it means "bones and raw food" but all the same...
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Andrij

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #407 on: 27 November, 2018, 12:14:10 pm »
WinterHellWonderland has returned to Hyde Park.  I spotted, over the wall, a banner which read THOR'S TIPI BAR.  I never new the Norse used wigwams.
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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #408 on: 27 November, 2018, 01:49:09 pm »
WinterHellWonderland has returned to Hyde Park.  I spotted, over the wall, a banner which read THOR'S TIPI BAR.  I never new the Norse used wigwams.
Well 'ish


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Kim

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #409 on: 27 November, 2018, 01:51:43 pm »
Isn't it more a case of the Norse used anything they wanted to?

ian

Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #410 on: 27 November, 2018, 01:57:55 pm »
Is it some Norvish variant of a tiki bar? Everyone likes tiki bars. Fact.

Andrij

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #411 on: 27 November, 2018, 02:38:34 pm »
WinterHellWonderland has returned to Hyde Park.  I spotted, over the wall, a banner which read THOR'S TIPI BAR.  I never new the Norse used wigwams.
Well 'ish


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_people

I sit corrected.
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ElyDave

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #412 on: 27 November, 2018, 07:46:49 pm »
I'm currently reading a book on the Vikings, seems they were not afraid of a bit of cultural appropriation, so why not?
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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #413 on: 28 November, 2018, 08:19:36 am »
I'm currently reading a book on the Vikings, seems they were not afraid of a bit of cultural appropriation, so why not?

If you live in the Fens it's useful to know something about the people who live next door, especially if they have red hair.....

Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #414 on: 28 November, 2018, 08:34:44 pm »
http://cycle.panasonic.jp/products/pos/

more in the "not all three-letter acronyms translate well" department, unless they mean "Piece of Shinyness"

Basil

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #415 on: 28 November, 2018, 10:33:21 pm »
The Muff Diving Club.

https://www.muffdivingclub.ie/
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Andrij

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #416 on: 29 November, 2018, 08:46:22 am »
http://cycle.panasonic.jp/products/pos/

more in the "not all three-letter acronyms translate well" department, unless they mean "Piece of Shinyness"

My initial reading of POS is 'point of sale'.  I blame too many years working in retail.
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essexian

Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #417 on: 29 November, 2018, 08:51:03 am »
Trans Peninne "TRAINS"

Do I need to say more?????

hellymedic

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #418 on: 10 December, 2018, 12:31:59 am »
What do you call a lorry that crashes into a house?


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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #420 on: 24 February, 2019, 06:43:47 pm »
Because we don't have a badly-named places thread. And because it might in fact be quite a good name for this place:


I was actually looking for a similarly-named town on the China/Kazakhstan border...
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #421 on: 25 February, 2019, 03:21:11 pm »
Also not a business (oh no, he's a plastic surgery procedure):
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/obituaries/dick-tuck-dead-democrat-consultant.html
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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #422 on: 26 February, 2019, 01:12:46 pm »
Because we don't have a badly-named places thread. And because it might in fact be quite a good name for this place:


I was actually looking for a similarly-named town on the China/Kazakhstan border...

There's a Bumpass Mountain in the Lassen Volcanic NP in Northern California.  The mountain next to it, sadly, is not Brokeback Mountain.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #423 on: 26 February, 2019, 01:27:05 pm »
I've been wondering how it's pronounced. I'd assumed Bum-pass but it could be Bump-ass.
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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #424 on: 26 February, 2019, 01:28:12 pm »
I've been wondering how it's pronounced. I'd assumed Bum-pass but it could be Bump-ass.

I think 'ass' is more USAnian than 'bum'...