Author Topic: The badly-named businesses thread (Read 114056 times)

Andrij · « **Reply #375 on:** 03 January, 2018, 09:04:13 pm »

Quote from: andrewc on 03 January, 2018, 06:07:15 pm

That's one for the brilliantly-named business thread!

Guy · « **Reply #376 on:** 04 January, 2018, 11:36:40 am »

The funeral director in Upton (W Yorks) is a chap called Burke. One wonders if he has ever had a business partner called Hare.

essexian · « **Reply #377 on:** 06 January, 2018, 07:38:35 am »

Not sure its badly named but it did make me do a double take when they arrived at my neighbours house yesterday to clean their horribly smelly wood burner....

https://nacs.org.uk/up-urs-ltd/

robgul · « **Reply #378 on:** 14 January, 2018, 08:40:19 pm »

Driving on the A1 near Biggleswade today and I spotted a sign : Huge Tackle Shop

.... turns out it was for fishing stuff.

Rob

Ian H · « **Reply #379 on:** 14 January, 2018, 09:08:32 pm »

A local estate agent has shortened its name to 'gth', all lower-case. It's quite difficult to pronounce without significant expectoration.

cygnet · « **Reply #380 on:** 14 January, 2018, 09:52:02 pm »

get to heck, go to hell, or is gth simply the verbalised response to encountering an estate agent?

Torslanda · « **Reply #381 on:** 15 January, 2018, 12:58:33 am »

Quote from: robgul on 14 January, 2018, 08:40:19 pm

Driving on the A1 near Biggleswade today and I spotted a sign : Huge Tackle Shop

.... turns out it was for fishing stuff.

Rob

Not, strictly speaking, badly named but somewhat (tenuously) related - being on the A1 - between Ferrybridge and the A14, there are a number of ex-diners which have been converted to sex shops.

I know long motorway journeys can be tedious but . . .

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #382 on:** 15 January, 2018, 08:59:44 am »

Numerous colossal billboards for "Adult Superstores" along I-70 between Kansas City and St Louis suggest this phenomenon is not confined to BRITAIN.

Tom M · « **Reply #383 on:** 15 January, 2018, 10:46:46 am »

I saw someone on a local Facebook group advertising their new pet sitting service, which for some reason they'd decided to call Cruella Deville pet sitting... Perhaps not the kind of association you'd want really

Jakob W · « **Reply #384 on:** 15 January, 2018, 11:46:37 am »

I always assumed the roadside adult emporia were intended to help provide succour for the loneliness of the long-distance trucker; I'm always surprised that they seem to be hanging on in an age of online shopping and mobile internet devices.

Torslanda · « **Reply #385 on:** 15 January, 2018, 11:59:46 am »

Where's Jacomus when you need him?

Insight required...

ian · « **Reply #386 on:** 15 January, 2018, 07:47:28 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 15 January, 2018, 08:59:44 am

Numerous colossal billboards for "Adult Superstores" along I-70 between Kansas City and St Louis suggest this phenomenon is not confined to BRITAIN.

Not sure what the planning laws are in the UK, but zoning in the US often pushes such 'adult enterprises' out onto the highways where they won't risk corrupting innocent little children and god-fearing christians.

Beardy · « **Reply #387 on:** 16 January, 2018, 08:56:19 am »

Quote from: ian on 15 January, 2018, 07:47:28 pm

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 15 January, 2018, 08:59:44 am
Numerous colossal billboards for "Adult Superstores" along I-70 between Kansas City and St Louis suggest this phenomenon is not confined to BRITAIN.

Not sure what the planning laws are in the UK, but zoning in the US often pushes such 'adult enterprises' out onto the highways where they won't risk corrupting innocent little children and god-fearing christians.

I thought it was so that God fearing Christians could visit said emporia without the risk of being seen by their fellow Congregationalists

Andrij · « **Reply #388 on:** 27 January, 2018, 08:52:34 pm »

To clarify, that is the BARGAIN MEAT CENTRE.

Bledlow · « **Reply #389 on:** 27 January, 2018, 09:05:37 pm »

Quote from: Tom M on 15 January, 2018, 10:46:46 am

I saw someone on a local Facebook group advertising their new pet sitting service, which for some reason they'd decided to call Cruella Deville pet sitting... Perhaps not the kind of association you'd want really

Specialist in dalmatians?

hellymedic · « **Reply #390 on:** 30 January, 2018, 01:27:49 pm »

Observed the 'sham lounge' shop front in the taxi on my hospital clinic trip today.
?

Wowbagger · « **Reply #391 on:** 30 January, 2018, 01:35:34 pm »

Quote from: Tom M on 15 January, 2018, 10:46:46 am

I saw someone on a local Facebook group advertising their new pet sitting service, which for some reason they'd decided to call Cruella Deville pet sitting... Perhaps not the kind of association you'd want really

That's a good spot...

clarion · « **Reply #392 on:** 13 February, 2018, 11:33:35 am »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 30 January, 2018, 01:35:34 pm

Quote from: Tom M on 15 January, 2018, 10:46:46 am
I saw someone on a local Facebook group advertising their new pet sitting service, which for some reason they'd decided to call Cruella Deville pet sitting... Perhaps not the kind of association you'd want really
That's a good spot...

Fur Goodness' Sake!

andrewc · « **Reply #393 on:** 03 March, 2018, 07:52:51 pm »

Now that's what you call a memorable slogan....

Canardly · « **Reply #394 on:** 03 March, 2018, 07:56:50 pm »

Its a fire sale.

T42 · « **Reply #395 on:** 04 March, 2018, 09:05:19 am »

Is there a Ralph's around here?

Jaded · « **Reply #396 on:** 04 March, 2018, 09:37:37 am »

Ashes to cashes

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #397 on:** 07 May, 2018, 11:24:07 pm »

I'm not sure the people behind floplast.co.uk went to Specsavers.

ElyDave · « **Reply #398 on:** 30 May, 2018, 08:35:09 pm »

not sure if this should be here or the div thread, parked in the railway station carpark, I suspect an altercation with the nearby low bridge, the most driven into in the country despite hi-vis signs every-bloody-where.

It's the "careful removers" strapline that made me chuckle

hellymedic · « **Reply #399 on:** 14 June, 2018, 11:48:53 pm »

Appletree Court, a Nursing Home with Dementia....

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.6018763,-0.2688702,3a,15y,99.97h,91.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sF6z5ojGSMnpEhschvRpWCQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Author Topic: The badly-named businesses thread (Read 114056 times)

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