Author Topic: The badly-named businesses thread (Read 114448 times)

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #350 on:** 06 January, 2017, 10:56:13 am »

"Office? Is that popular beat combo?"

hellymedic · « **Reply #351 on:** 15 May, 2017, 11:30:19 pm »

The Speedwell School of Motoring, London NW.

For phone number geeks, SPEedwell was the London exchange that was renumbered as (01) 455 in the 1960s and was on the Hoop Lane exchange, with MEAdway, which became 458.

I see they have a 458 phone number so they would have had a wrongly-named business 50 years ago...

andrewc · « **Reply #352 on:** 24 May, 2017, 11:10:41 pm »

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/truck-plows-analtech-odor-leads-hazmat-situation-article-1.3189762?

rogerzilla · « **Reply #353 on:** 25 May, 2017, 11:26:41 am »

http://www.open19.org/foundation/

The logo doesn't really look like "PENIS". Not at all.

Legs · « **Reply #354 on:** 25 May, 2017, 11:54:01 am »

Has the Office of Government Commerce logo come up on this thread, or similar, before?

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #355 on:** 25 May, 2017, 11:58:42 am »

Quote from: rogerzilla on 25 May, 2017, 11:26:41 am

http://www.open19.org/foundation/

The logo doesn't really look like "PENIS". Not at all.

It's a penis with a cock ring!

MalRees · « **Reply #356 on:** 03 June, 2017, 07:41:49 am »

John Pagan & Son, Funeral Directors, Dumfries.

HTFB · « **Reply #357 on:** 03 June, 2017, 08:13:50 am »

Quote from: hellymedic on 15 May, 2017, 11:30:19 pm

The Speedwell School of Motoring, London NW.

For phone number geeks, SPEedwell was the London exchange that was renumbered as (01) 455 in the 1960s and was on the Hoop Lane exchange, with MEAdway, which became 458.

I see they have a 458 phone number so they would have had a wrongly-named business 50 years ago...

It's a terrible name now. How about "Keepwithinthespeedlimitandensureyoucanstopwithinthedistanceyoucanseetobeclearwell"?

hellymedic · « **Reply #358 on:** 03 June, 2017, 04:47:59 pm »

Quote from: HTFB on 03 June, 2017, 08:13:50 am

Quote from: hellymedic on 15 May, 2017, 11:30:19 pm
The Speedwell School of Motoring, London NW.

For phone number geeks, SPEedwell was the London exchange that was renumbered as (01) 455 in the 1960s and was on the Hoop Lane exchange, with MEAdway, which became 458.

I see they have a 458 phone number so they would have had a wrongly-named business 50 years ago...
It's a terrible name now. How about "Keepwithinthespeedlimitandensureyoucanstopwithinthedistanceyoucanseetobeclearwell"?

Germander speedwell is a pretty little weed thobut.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #359 on:** 14 July, 2017, 02:03:05 pm »

On a lorry on the M25: J CARRION

On another lorry on the M25: DISCORDIA - I couldn't see whether it had "HAIL ERIS" on the other side.

Andrij · « **Reply #360 on:** 14 July, 2017, 02:10:08 pm »

If you're in the business of hiring out white vans emblazoned with your company name, the name ANKER may be asking for trouble.

essexian · « **Reply #361 on:** 22 July, 2017, 08:04:04 am »

The Middle of Nowhere Festival.....

Now, with a name like that, you would be expecting the festival to be in the middle of, er, nowhere, miles from civilisation and a decent pub. Somewhere like Glen Coe, or the Welsh Highlands or Leeds.

Nope, the Middle of Nowhere Festival is to be held next week on a field overlooking the M6 motorway....hang on, it must be somewhere north of Lancaster, like Shap: that's quite remote...... two miles south of Junction 13, the turning for Stafford and Penkridge.

Er.....Stafford is like the middle of everywhere: less than 75 minutes to London, 55 minutes to Liverpool and Manchester and 30 minutes (not that the trains are ever on time), to Mordor Central. Okay, Penkridge is a few miles south but still has a mainline station so is hardly cut off from the rest of the UK.

Strange name for a Festival which is not in the middle of nowhere!

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #362 on:** 22 July, 2017, 12:40:32 pm »

We don't have a badly sited businesses thread, but next to the Shelter shop up the road is a branch of a trendy estate agency (Elephant).

T42 · « **Reply #363 on:** 27 August, 2017, 03:06:41 pm »

T42 · « **Reply #364 on:** 13 September, 2017, 10:35:38 am »

Holy Water, Batman!

rogerzilla · « **Reply #365 on:** 13 September, 2017, 02:18:55 pm »

Special shampoo, wash and dry programme for Popemobiles.

hellymedic · « **Reply #366 on:** 28 September, 2017, 02:02:05 am »

LittleWheelsandBig · « **Reply #367 on:** 28 September, 2017, 02:08:33 am »

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/09/i-wish-australias-new-space-agency-was-called-arse/

T42 · « **Reply #368 on:** 26 October, 2017, 08:45:52 am »

They drive around in Carz.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #369 on:** 22 December, 2017, 03:46:46 pm »

On the side of a lorry on the M25 today: "DISCORDIA"

Hail Eris!

rafletcher · « **Reply #370 on:** 22 December, 2017, 04:37:48 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 22 December, 2017, 03:46:46 pm

On the side of a lorry on the M25 today: "DISCORDIA"

Hail Eris!

See post 359.....

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #371 on:** 22 December, 2017, 07:58:40 pm »

clarion · « **Reply #372 on:** 27 December, 2017, 11:23:26 am »

I cannot tell you with what delight I find that the German-Japanese watch & pen manufacturer Wancher make a pen called Juvenile.

Sadly, it does not say "Juvenile Wancher" on the side, or i would have ordered one tout de suite!

Pingu · « **Reply #373 on:** 02 January, 2018, 06:30:06 pm »

Companies House rejects 50 potentially offensive names

andrewc · « **Reply #374 on:** 03 January, 2018, 06:07:15 pm »

Author Topic: The badly-named businesses thread (Read 114448 times)

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