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Title: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 11 August, 2011, 07:18:18 am
http://www.stormfront.co.uk/

Seriously, did no-one tell them?  I suppose you can get Apple stuff in white...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: BrianI on 11 August, 2011, 08:22:18 am
http://www.penisland.net/ (http://www.penisland.net/)

 :o

It is safe for work, and they do sell pens.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: tiermat on 11 August, 2011, 09:09:55 am
http://www.coles-law.co.uk/

Always thought they should have missed out the hyphen, just for the giggles :)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Clare on 11 August, 2011, 09:16:29 am
Years ago there was a purveyor of dead animal parts on Town Street, Armley called:

S&M Quality Pork Butchers

 :o

Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: why1040 on 11 August, 2011, 09:19:00 am
Haha quality!

I have to say (very slightly off topic) that ever since we moved to the UK, I've been fascinated by "family butchers".   :o

Are they legal??    ;D
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Basil on 11 August, 2011, 09:32:31 am
I'm afraid that you'll just have to believe me on this one.  I've searched around and they no longer seem to be in business. (Or they've changed their name)

There was a small engineering works near Digbeth in Birmingham called The Maiden Screwing Co.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: LindaG on 11 August, 2011, 09:33:35 am
http://www.stormfront.co.uk/

Seriously, did no-one tell them?  I suppose you can get Apple stuff in white...

I don't get it  ???
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Rhys W on 11 August, 2011, 09:37:22 am
http://www.stormfront.co.uk/

Seriously, did no-one tell them?  I suppose you can get Apple stuff in white...

I stumbled on that a couple of days ago, I was reading something on Macworld I think... unbelieveable. I've just got this picture in my head of the staff who work there now...  :facepalm:
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Basil on 11 August, 2011, 09:39:04 am

I don't get it  ???

Oh good.

Nor do I.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: eeymsmo on 11 August, 2011, 09:39:20 am
http://www.stormfront.co.uk/

Seriously, did no-one tell them?  I suppose you can get Apple stuff in white...

I don't get it  ???

Stormfront (not linking to it) is a notorious Racist/Nazi/Aryan/F*&kwit online forum
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: clarion on 11 August, 2011, 09:53:45 am
I think it comes from the name of an SS detachment.

I think I've mentioned before the butchers in Littleover, Derby, called I M Hurt
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Si_Co on 11 August, 2011, 12:18:55 pm
I quite like this one:

http://www.boxbrosfuneraldirectors.co.uk/

Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 11 August, 2011, 01:56:35 pm
There is, or used to be, a motorcycle place in Bristol called Piston Broke.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 August, 2011, 02:20:58 pm
Top 10 Silly Website Names (http://listverse.com/2007/08/01/top-10-silly-website-names/).
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: CAMRAMan on 11 August, 2011, 02:25:53 pm
This place (http://www.wrighthassall.co.uk/) could be a right legal hassle...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: clarion on 11 August, 2011, 03:01:26 pm
Dolittle & Dalley, the appropriately-named West Midlands estate agents?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 11 August, 2011, 05:21:01 pm
What is it about hairdressers that gives them such a profundity of awful puns ?  http://www.flickr.com/groups/hairdressers/pool/

I've always wanted to own a tearoom.  I'm undecided whether to call it The Chocolate Teapot, or The Drum-Up.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: jogler on 11 August, 2011, 05:35:58 pm
In the 70's there was an engineering firm near Leeds FC Elland Road stadium who had an enormous roadside billboard with their name on it.

Rafferty's Toolworks

(some wag had painted on the wall below
"so does mine but I'm not bragging")

Don't know if it's still there.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Ian H on 11 August, 2011, 05:44:13 pm
A couple of foreign artics recently, on the A303: "Discordia" and "Stoptrans". The latter was Polish.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 11 August, 2011, 05:46:57 pm
Impact School of Motoring (Ealing)
Sidney Hurry Funerals
Burnt Oak Timber
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: diapsaon0 on 11 August, 2011, 05:54:02 pm
A firm of solicitors - in Birmingham,  I think - called Crooke, Swindell and Fraude.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 11 August, 2011, 06:02:54 pm
^ That reminds me of the Big Bang paper, published under the names of Ralph Alpher, Hans Bethe, and George Gamow.   :)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 11 August, 2011, 06:10:52 pm
http://www.peakoil.co.uk/

Get it before it runs out.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: teethgrinder on 11 August, 2011, 07:05:42 pm
A couple of foreign artics recently, on the A303: "Discordia" and "Stoptrans". The latter was Polish.

I thought that you might have mentioned a butchers shop that used to be in a Somerset town on the A30.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Efrogwr on 11 August, 2011, 08:12:51 pm
W. Ankers & Sons, market gardeners in Stokesley.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Canardly on 11 August, 2011, 09:01:57 pm
Had a bank manager called Mr Beg...... ::-)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Ian H on 11 August, 2011, 09:03:59 pm
A couple of foreign artics recently, on the A303: "Discordia" and "Stoptrans". The latter was Polish.

I thought that you might have mentioned a butchers shop that used to be in a Somerset town on the A30.

Char[re]d Meat?
Not a shop but a meat processor. Name changed some years ago.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Clare on 11 August, 2011, 09:31:58 pm
Of course there is also the Buckinghamshire coach company, based in Olney:

Sole's of Olney

who were founded by Richard* Sole and used to have his initial in their title as well. It was quietly dropped sometime in the late 70s.




*Might have been Robert but it definitely began with an R.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: gordon taylor on 11 August, 2011, 10:18:09 pm
(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c22/gordon1314/IMG_0447.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: teethgrinder on 11 August, 2011, 10:21:46 pm
A couple of foreign artics recently, on the A303: "Discordia" and "Stoptrans". The latter was Polish.

I thought that you might have mentioned a butchers shop that used to be in a Somerset town on the A30.

Char[re]d Meat?
Not a shop but a meat processor. Name changed some years ago.

That's the one.


Of course there is also the Buckinghamshire coach company, based in Olney:

Sole's of Olney

who were founded by Richard* Sole and used to have his initial in their title as well. It was quietly dropped sometime in the late 70s.




*Might have been Robert but it definitely began with an R.



I never knew it was R. Soles. They advertise on the local radio, just as Soles of Olney. (actualy, I think it's spelt Souls? but never mind)
Another one, not far from there is the hauliage company, Knights, which is based in a small village called, Old, hence the name, Knights of Old. Not sure that they are in business any more.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: teethgrinder on 11 August, 2011, 10:23:08 pm
While cycling in the North American desert, I saw a sign for the ironically named, "Death Valley Health Centre."
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Clare on 11 August, 2011, 10:31:03 pm
Of course there is also the Buckinghamshire coach company, based in Olney:

Sole's of Olney

who were founded by Richard* Sole and used to have his initial in their title as well. It was quietly dropped sometime in the late 70s.

I never knew it was R. Soles. They advertise on the local radio, just as Soles of Olney. (actualy, I think it's spelt Souls? but never mind)

I think you are right, it is Soul's, the R was dropped years ago but when I was a kid we used to regularly see' R Soul's of Olney' coaches.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: tonycollinet on 11 August, 2011, 11:12:45 pm
There is a little village near Oswestry called Knockin.

I desperately want to open a shop there.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 12 August, 2011, 12:04:22 am
There is a little village near Oswestry called Knockin.

I desperately want to open a shop there.

I recall an allusion to such an emporium in one of Noel Simpson's Arrivée articles...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: jogler on 12 August, 2011, 12:10:27 am
There is a little village near Oswestry called Knockin.

I desperately want to open a shop there.

The Knockin Shop appears on a Wigley Perm IIRC :)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: jogler on 12 August, 2011, 12:14:36 am

Another one, not far from there is the hauliage company, Knights, which is based in a small village called, Old, hence the name, Knights of Old. Not sure that they are in business any more.

They certainly are.I frequently see one or other of their HGV's in the Market Drayton area.In fact one passed Prees Heath roundabout during the Saturday night of the Mersey Roads 24hr TT.I believe you were in the vicinity at the time :)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 12 August, 2011, 06:40:17 am
Our local "recycling and landfill" company.

http://www.crapperandsons.co.uk/
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: bikesdontfloat on 12 August, 2011, 11:43:08 am
Birmingham also boasts the perennial disappointment to Victorian underwear fetishist Bloomer Heaven (http://www.bloomerheaven.co.uk/)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Rhys W on 12 August, 2011, 12:22:47 pm
We sometimes ride past this place. (http://www.192.com/atoz/business/pontypool-np4/sc/semen-world-ltd/30df1c57d8a51899f68fb277c3e2f91429c10803/comp/) I always imagine it to be some kind of theme park.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Giraffe on 12 August, 2011, 10:12:59 pm
Not really a bad name but could explain phantom pregnancies: Spook Erections, a builders in Moreton-in-Marsh in the '80s (didn't see it when the Birthday Rides were there).
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: microphonie on 13 August, 2011, 09:41:53 am
[Ben Elton] A little bit of politics...

 George Bush & Son, Wholesale Butchers  (http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blbushandson.htm)

[/BE]
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 13 August, 2011, 11:01:31 am
Many decades ago, the 'Yuk' Chinese restaurant, in Copenhagen. Locals did not see this as strange...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 13 August, 2011, 11:33:23 am
Photoshopped?  Probably not.  Deliberate?  Almost certainly.

http://www.soignorant.com/its-a-fuking-chinese-restaurant/
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Efrogwr on 13 August, 2011, 12:48:10 pm
There was a Chinese restaurant called Ho Lee Fook on the Kings Road in Chelsea.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Efrogwr on 13 August, 2011, 12:49:14 pm
I. Quibble, Contractor in Hull.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: MattH on 13 August, 2011, 02:59:32 pm
Well known in electronic engineering circles. (http://www.waynekerrtest.com/)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: zigzag on 13 August, 2011, 03:24:53 pm
flier found in our inbox today - hair and beauty salon "split endz". as per my mrs -  who would want to go there?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 August, 2011, 03:51:51 pm
There is a little village near Oswestry called Knockin.

I desperately want to open a shop there.

More than 20 years ago my brother and I cycled from Shrewsbury into Wales, dropping into the Knockin Shop for essential supplies.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Torslanda on 13 August, 2011, 04:06:16 pm
I can scarcely believe we are 48 replies in and no one has mentioned the tool firm 'Abingdon King Dick' famous for 'podging spanners' IIRC. whether that is a variety of wrench or an immoral act I'll leave it up to you to decide.

Or how about Facom?

Has anyone else had dealings with an estate agent called Richard Head? (Hazel Grove, 1990s)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: mr_brooks on 13 August, 2011, 04:17:18 pm
http://feeduscrap.com/

Made me do a double take when I drove past in Nantes, France.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Canardly on 13 August, 2011, 04:31:57 pm
You can street view this I am told.

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=wong+fook+hing+book+store&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=Aob&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1680&bih=878&tbm=isch&prmd=ivns&tbnid=iVWLBXXiaccfdM:&imgrefurl=http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php%253Ft%253D58221&docid=Fon6rN2h5wLXhM&w=480&h=360&ei=uphGTr-pM4iq8APzxP3JBg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=177&vpy=92&dur=266&hovh=194&hovw=259&tx=140&ty=114&page=1&tbnh=136&tbnw=173&start=0&ndsp=38&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 13 August, 2011, 04:47:31 pm
In Piddletrenthide, Dorset, astride the River Trent (or Piddle) lies the Piddle Inn.
Lavatorial humour abounds...
http://www.piddleinn.co.uk/ (http://www.piddleinn.co.uk/)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 13 August, 2011, 04:48:03 pm
I can scarcely believe we are 48 replies in and no one has mentioned the tool firm 'Abingdon King Dick' famous for 'podging spanners' IIRC. whether that is a variety of wrench or an immoral act I'll leave it up to you to decide.
King Dick was the name of the founder's dog, or something.  They are supposed to be very good spanners (I'm avoiding the word "tools" for obvious reasons).
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Torslanda on 13 August, 2011, 05:02:54 pm
That's most unlike you, Rog . . .
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Arch on 13 August, 2011, 05:08:15 pm
I can scarcely believe we are 48 replies in and no one has mentioned the tool firm 'Abingdon King Dick' famous for 'podging spanners' IIRC. whether that is a variety of wrench or an immoral act I'll leave it up to you to decide.

I read that as 'wench'.... 
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Torslanda on 13 August, 2011, 08:04:38 pm
You need help . . .
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 13 August, 2011, 10:02:57 pm
On Portland Sq in Bristol there is a Chinese foods wholesaler called Phoo Kew. I'm not sure of the spelling but that's the gist of it.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 13 August, 2011, 10:13:51 pm
And one I remember from India - Panicker's Travels.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: David Martin on 13 August, 2011, 11:29:44 pm
  They are supposed to be very good spanners (I'm avoiding the word "tools" for obvious reasons).

They are. I have some in a variety of sizes
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 August, 2011, 11:39:30 pm
In Piddletrenthide, Dorset, astride the River Trent (or Piddle) lies the Piddle Inn.
Lavatorial humour abounds...
http://www.piddleinn.co.uk/ (http://www.piddleinn.co.uk/)

I think that's the brewery that makes Piddle in a Bottle.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Efrogwr on 14 August, 2011, 06:58:04 pm
On the subject of booze; J. P. Sick, a wine merchant in Alsace.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mr Larrington on 15 August, 2011, 01:45:43 pm
Many decades ago, the 'Yuk' Chinese restaurant, in Copenhagen. Locals did not see this as strange...

In similar vein, I have seen a sports footwear shop in Roskilde called "Athlete's Foot".
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Kim on 15 August, 2011, 02:02:43 pm
We spotted the Ottery Foot Clinic on the Exmouth Exodus yesterday.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rachel t on 15 August, 2011, 03:42:58 pm
think the training provider the company I used to work for really should have thought about the website address http://www.careersexchange.co.uk would you really want to employ them to deliver professional training :)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Efrogwr on 15 August, 2011, 04:13:30 pm
Read A Tall Man In A Low Land (Harry Pearson) for some excellent examples from Belgium.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: jogler on 28 August, 2011, 06:32:43 pm


Has anyone else had dealings with an estate agent called Richard Head? (Hazel Grove, 1990s)

I have an ex-client of that name :-X
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Jasmine on 28 August, 2011, 09:00:12 pm
There's an antiques shop in Rhyl called the Glory Hole.

http://g.co/maps/szvu
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Ian H on 29 August, 2011, 04:39:03 pm
The official PBP supplier of gels. powders and potions is "Overstim".
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 02 September, 2011, 07:52:25 pm
Want a shit house building?

http://www.keechdesignandbuild.co.uk/
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: MattH on 09 September, 2011, 10:32:27 am
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6188/6129236175_9e09bf8e95.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: daveb on 09 September, 2011, 10:56:07 am
Reeves and Pain. Funeral Directors.

On the Abingdon Road in Oxford.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Marj on 09 September, 2011, 11:26:05 am
Joanne Foot - Chiropodist

In our village
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: LindaG on 16 October, 2011, 10:49:40 am
The Bogie Chain.

A pub in Wallsend.  You wouldn't order the soup would you?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: clarion on 16 October, 2011, 05:27:25 pm
I spotted a hair enhancement product in Claire's Accessories called 'Bumpits'.

I don't think they thought it through.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 16 October, 2011, 07:04:30 pm
I spotted a hair enhancement product in Claire's Accessories called 'Bumpits'.

I don't think they thought it through.

Good name for pilonidal sinuses though...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Speshact on 16 October, 2011, 09:24:25 pm
I spotted a hair enhancement product in Claire's Accessories called 'Bumpits'.

I don't think they thought it through.
Got to ask, were you shopping for yourself in CAs?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 05 November, 2011, 05:07:40 pm
Two special schools have merged, close to where I live. The resulting new school will be named 'The Village School'.
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Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Valiant on 05 November, 2011, 05:43:47 pm
I always found it weird that an electronic measurement company would call themselves Fluke (http://www.fluke.com/fluke/uken/home/default). But then i also love it.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Meegat on 05 November, 2011, 06:33:06 pm
While I applaud their service, I still double-take a bit at www.cycletherapist.co.uk/

There is a Chinese takeaway near here called Ming Yin. Doesn't really inspire confidence.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rower40 on 05 November, 2011, 06:59:58 pm
I always found it weird that an electronic measurement company would call themselves Fluke (http://www.fluke.com/fluke/uken/home/default). But then i also love it.
Wikipedia states:
Quote
Fluke was incorporated in Washington state by John Fluke on October 7, 1953 as the John Fluke Manufacturing Company, Inc.
I dunno if USAnian English has the same meaning of fluke as "stroke-of-luck".
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 05 November, 2011, 10:36:36 pm
While I applaud their service, I still double-take a bit at www.cycletherapist.co.uk/
Have you used them? Any good?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: mark on 06 November, 2011, 02:15:05 am
I always found it weird that an electronic measurement company would call themselves Fluke (http://www.fluke.com/fluke/uken/home/default). But then i also love it.
Wikipedia states:
Quote
Fluke was incorporated in Washington state by John Fluke on October 7, 1953 as the John Fluke Manufacturing Company, Inc.
I dunno if USAnian English has the same meaning of fluke as "stroke-of-luck".

It does.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mr Arch on 07 November, 2011, 05:38:23 pm
I used to see a van, on my way to work, that must have something to do with Dutch espionage. http://www.hollandspies.co.uk/ (http://www.hollandspies.co.uk/)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 17 February, 2012, 06:39:07 am
http://www.happyplace.com/13476/unintentionally-inappropriate-business-names

"Big Dick's Halfway Inn"  ;D
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: essexian on 17 February, 2012, 07:37:41 am
This shop always makes SWMBO giggle when we drive by:

http://g.co/maps/qscfc

Something about not being able to give it away let alone sell it......  :facepalm:
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: BrianI on 17 February, 2012, 08:00:32 am
Oh how we giggled at university using a http://www.wayne-kerr.co.uk/ (http://www.wayne-kerr.co.uk/) LCR bridge to measure electronic components.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: AndyH on 17 February, 2012, 08:23:56 am
In Poole there is a sandwich shop called Butterfingers.... unfortunately there is a rather prominent bus stop in front of their sign which from certain places on the pavement opposite obscures a couple of the letters!
sorry no pic, but next time I'm there i will endeavour to remember my camera....
posted by Mrs H, as Mr H seems to have hijacked my computer.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: mattc on 17 February, 2012, 10:22:18 am
Caesar's Camp Garage

Made me smile every single time I drove past.


(Near Caesar's Camp, west of Farnborough IIRC)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Jacomus on 17 February, 2012, 03:37:10 pm
Not a business, but I still *snork* every time a tube announces that it is going to Cockfosters ;D
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Juan Martín on 17 February, 2012, 04:50:33 pm
I remember a factory unit in the East End of London, possibly Poplar, in the '80s that had emblazoned 'Quick-Wrap Ltd'.

Or it may have been Kwik-wrap.

Something to do with insulation I think - it always made me laugh.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Biff on 17 February, 2012, 06:19:15 pm
(http://i43.tinypic.com/28hh5j4.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: mattc on 18 February, 2012, 06:51:36 pm
Oh I say!
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 19 February, 2012, 04:22:58 pm
Utterly deliberate, this one.  Northampton residents will probably recognise it.

(http://failfun.com/wp-content/uploads/sofa-king-low-win.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 27 March, 2012, 08:59:28 pm
Ye gods.

(http://www.peeble.com/steamer.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Jaded on 27 March, 2012, 09:13:31 pm
That made me giggle a lot and then cough uncontrollably, in my state of sickness.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Jules on 27 March, 2012, 10:16:47 pm
Tea has just gone up my nose.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Efrogwr on 13 April, 2012, 08:50:21 pm
Boagey Brothers, formerly of Redcar. An unfortunate name for a grocer's shop.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Jaded on 13 April, 2012, 11:20:05 pm
And a title for a Bowie song.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 14 April, 2012, 04:52:10 pm
I wonder if this firms  (http://www.jodafreight.com/)logistics expertise stretches as far as Spain?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: snail on 14 April, 2012, 07:03:02 pm
There is a wine warehouse in Bromsgrove which nearly had me swerving into traffic.
It's called The Noble Rot.
People keep pinching the "le"

There is a chinese takeaway in Lincoln called "Legal Food" and the story I heard was that the owners asked the signwriter for "Regal Food" but...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Redjeep! on 15 April, 2012, 12:48:59 am
Estate agency in Newport called Crook & Blight.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Giraffe on 15 April, 2012, 09:59:06 am
Utterly deliberate, this one.  Northampton residents will probably recognise it.

(http://failfun.com/wp-content/uploads/sofa-king-low-win.jpg)
Oh yes - walk or cycle past it several times a year.
About 50-odd years ago we lived in St. Leonard's Road about 50 yards from there - it was a cinema then (Odeon?).
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 02 May, 2012, 06:01:50 pm
Got this via Twitter.

(https://p.twimg.com/Ar5YUlsCAAEr4Wp.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: woollypigs on 03 May, 2012, 01:43:50 am
Spotted in Bariloche, Argentina

(http://www.woollypigs.com/images/Mr-cock-shop.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 18 November, 2012, 02:08:24 pm
The logo!  The company name!

http://www.fapco.ae/
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 24 February, 2013, 11:24:29 am
I have just ordered some light bulbs from a company called Winnet Trading.

If they turn out to be shite then I only have myself to blame.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Littlesox on 24 February, 2013, 08:59:28 pm
We have an Alvin Plummer, who guess what....is the local plumber.

So if you need a plumber, call A Plummer.

(Well I thought it was funny when he turned up to install our new shower, anyway).

p.s. not so funny when I got the bill......that'l teach me to laugh at his name.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: diapsaon0 on 24 February, 2013, 09:01:52 pm
I remember a roofer called Knight who used the advertising strap-line "Have a Knight on the tiles".
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Vince on 26 February, 2013, 08:45:40 am
I always used to misread 'Cheltenham Shopfitters' as 'Cheltenham Shoplifters' not just once, every time I saw their van.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Guy on 26 February, 2013, 10:02:33 am
There's a fitted kitchen company in Biggleswade called Loline Interiors. Whenever I see their vans I always read it as Lolife Interiors :facepalm:
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: agagisgroovy on 27 February, 2013, 11:38:18 pm
Anywhere to do with the village of Mycock in the Peak District... remember seeing Mycock Plumbers and Mycock Holiday Cottage when on a DofE expedition there a couple of years ago.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 28 February, 2013, 06:37:17 am
Anywhere to do with the village of Mycock in the Peak District... remember seeing Mycock Plumbers and Mycock Holiday Cottage when on a DofE expedition there a couple of years ago.
According to my university housemate, the captain of Caterham School cricket team was once a Philip Mycock.

You did NOT call him Phil.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: clarion on 28 February, 2013, 10:16:38 pm
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMG_2608_zps6d41ec94.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Kim on 01 March, 2013, 12:31:50 am
I wonder if they'd do our garden...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: jogler on 01 March, 2013, 09:20:15 am
They made short work of the Vietnamese jungle
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 03 March, 2013, 07:40:17 pm
Following on from the gastroenteritis thread:

https://www.facebook.com/BrownsLaserClinic

Nice logo, too.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Rhys W on 05 March, 2013, 07:04:44 pm
You wouldn't find these (http://www.luwaran.com/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=15&Itemid=544) by googling.  ;)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Littlesox on 26 March, 2013, 10:02:25 pm
Not quite a business, but is the same vein.

The girl presenting the weather forecast for BBC Midlands yesterday morning (and she was prediciting more snow) was Susan Blizzard.

I kid you not !
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: DrMekon on 26 March, 2013, 10:30:36 pm
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Curl_Up_and_Di_Hair_Salon_-_Otley_Road_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1593781.jpg/480px-Curl_Up_and_Di_Hair_Salon_-_Otley_Road_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1593781.jpg)

I ride past this. They've changed the sign, but the name remains the same.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 March, 2013, 11:27:26 am
Spotted a concrete mixer lorry the other day belonging to Jim'll Mix It :facepalm:
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Pingu on 27 March, 2013, 10:47:22 pm
I just had to google that:

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7072/7278663946_31c300a2ec_z.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Valiant on 27 March, 2013, 11:30:14 pm
Radiance Audio. All my friends keep calling it Raindance
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Littlesox on 28 March, 2013, 06:29:59 am
Shawbury Shropshire.

Hairdressers called "Deb'n'Hair"


Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 26 April, 2013, 10:02:27 pm
Gross Butchers.
http://goo.gl/maps/QZZK5 (http://goo.gl/maps/QZZK5)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: David Martin on 26 April, 2013, 10:28:23 pm
Local crane hire - James Jack Lifting.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Littlesox on 04 May, 2013, 12:18:29 pm
Next time I'm out that way, I'll take a photo to prove it, but over by Oswestry lies the village of Knockin.

Guess what the village store is called ?

Yes, The Knockin Shop.

Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: jogler on 04 May, 2013, 12:24:28 pm


Yes, The Knockin Shop.

I have been in there with Kim otp.

It's wellknown amongst the audax riders.

ETA

IIRC Kim has a photo of our bikes parked outside the Knockin Shop
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 04 May, 2013, 12:28:37 pm
Googling suggests that everyone in the world has taken a photo of it.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=knockin+shop&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=k_CEUda4F4PePc_ggdgK&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=460#imgrc=BOAw6uRSE9fCjM%3A%3BNvPYKh9QghdynM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fs0.geograph.org.uk%252Fgeophotos%252F02%252F05%252F76%252F2057685_bc4c553a.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.geograph.org.uk%252Fphoto%252F2057685%3B640%3B480
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Littlesox on 08 May, 2013, 10:53:03 pm
Googling suggests that everyone in the world has taken a photo of it.

Blimey, you are not kidding.

More photos than Pippa's rear-end !
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: clarion on 12 May, 2013, 10:47:06 am
Badly named product, at least:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0114_zps040deb02.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ado15/media/IMAG0114_zps040deb02.jpg.html)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Arch on 12 May, 2013, 04:40:57 pm
Badly named product, at least:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0114_zps040deb02.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ado15/media/IMAG0114_zps040deb02.jpg.html)

Depends what sort of device you use them in...

Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Arch on 12 May, 2013, 04:46:19 pm
From Twitter, not so much a bad business name, as an unfortunate strapline.

https://twitter.com/cox_tom/status/333231292302884864/photo/1
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 12 May, 2013, 06:12:22 pm
From Twitter, not so much a bad business name, as an unfortunate strapline.

https://twitter.com/cox_tom/status/333231292302884864/photo/1
Given the RSPCA's penchant for euthanising anything that sneezes, not too far from the truth.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Salvatore on 13 May, 2013, 07:26:43 am
Another unfortunately-named product. I saw one in the wild on the 1991 PBP. And heard it - it squeaked horribly at the pivots.

(http://www.bikecult.com/works/saddles/bummer.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Jaded on 13 May, 2013, 09:25:56 am
From Twitter, not so much a bad business name, as an unfortunate strapline.

https://twitter.com/cox_tom/status/333231292302884864/photo/1

For a brief moment I though the next door shop was selling used lambs.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Woofage on 13 May, 2013, 10:42:38 pm
Not a business but a product:

(http://www.otsuka.co.jp/product/pocarisweat/images/keyvisual.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: clarion on 21 May, 2013, 11:28:05 am
So, again, not a business, but a series of products.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0122_zps4212e67b.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ado15/media/IMAG0122_zps4212e67b.jpg.html)

Did no one ever say it out loud before publishing?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Vince on 21 May, 2013, 07:48:26 pm
May be they had never heard of inter-galactic by-passes
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: clarion on 21 May, 2013, 11:30:10 pm
Sadly, there didn't seem to be one on poetry.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Vince on 03 June, 2013, 02:16:37 pm
I can't stop safely anywhere to take a photo of this, so will have to link to their logo.

(http://www.djgroup.nl/App_Themes/DJGroup/images/logo.gif)

Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 03 June, 2013, 06:36:53 pm
My new team uses a lot of this:

http://www.softwareag.com/corporate/products/aris_platform/default.asp

Presumably they never consulted any cockneys before choosing the name.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: clarion on 03 June, 2013, 07:03:22 pm
Closer to home, there was the Sachs Aris (http://velobase.com/ViewComponent.aspx?ID=cb7fc0e4-ef81-4d88-9e58-5e93f0a60bfb) groupset, which, missing a trick, didn't include a saddle.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 03 June, 2013, 09:41:59 pm
An organisation, to which I am close, created a mascot for a financial education programme called "Ned".  I asked, apropos of nothing, if they intended to use him in Scotland.

Ned is tragically no more.

Anyway, those forriners are immune from such concerns:
http://www.neduet.edu.pk/
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Andrij on 04 June, 2013, 09:18:01 am
Our CEO recently sent out an email about our company's NEDs.  He was, of course, referring to Non-Executive Directors, but after spelling it out at the start, all other references were 'NED'.  Oh, how I chuckled.  The CEO is an easy-going, approachable guy, but I decided that I wouldn't mention the other use of 'ned' to him.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Oaky on 06 June, 2013, 12:33:44 pm
DONG energy (http://www.dongenergy.co.uk/EN/About_us/DONG_Energy_in_the_UK/Pages/DONG_Energy_UK.aspx)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: MattH on 06 June, 2013, 12:37:16 pm
Mustafa Koc (http://www.koc.com.tr/en-us/Corporate/Board_of_Directors/Pages/MustafaVKoc.aspx) is the chairman of Koc Holding (http://www.koc.com.tr/).
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: tiermat on 06 June, 2013, 12:38:23 pm
Mustafa Koc (http://www.koc.com.tr/en-us/Corporate/Board_of_Directors/Pages/MustafaVKoc.aspx) is the chairman of Koc Holding (http://www.koc.com.tr/).

:D You just couldn't make it up, could you?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Vince on 06 June, 2013, 02:16:37 pm
I buy spares for my boat from Kok watersport
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 06 June, 2013, 07:59:06 pm
Say it out loud.

http://www.nnfestival.org.uk/

I assume the festival in Norwich has been cancelled, then.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 21 June, 2013, 11:11:33 am
Not so much badly named as an unfortunate inter-lingual coincidence: blindman.pl
He's a photographer!
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Bledlow on 21 June, 2013, 12:21:13 pm
Mustafa Koc (http://www.koc.com.tr/en-us/Corporate/Board_of_Directors/Pages/MustafaVKoc.aspx) is the chairman of Koc Holding (http://www.koc.com.tr/).
Pronounced Koch - ch as in church.

BTW, it's Koç, not Koc. It'd be pronounced Koj (j as in jam) without the cedilla.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 22 June, 2013, 11:50:34 am
http://www.snickersworkwear.pl/
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 28 June, 2013, 02:31:35 pm
The Speedwell Driving School
http://www.speedwelldrivingschool.com (http://www.speedwelldrivingschool.com)

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 28 June, 2013, 06:09:09 pm
FUD
http://www.fud.com.pl/

They make lifts, cranes and so on...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Trull on 29 June, 2013, 04:50:30 pm
There's a nursery in Orkney called "Peedie Breeks"

(Peedie means wee, err little so that's all right then)

In York there's the Kamikaze School of Motoring
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: HTFB on 29 June, 2013, 10:31:06 pm
I always used to misread 'Cheltenham Shopfitters' as 'Cheltenham Shoplifters' not just once, every time I saw their van.
Similarly Oxford Shirtprinters, efficient suppliers of cheap kit to student sports teams, were universally known as Oxford Shirtlifters. They're ShirtWorks these days, perhaps because.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Biff on 30 June, 2013, 03:10:51 pm
An Italian friend told me that there was a counsellor working for the Italian version of Relate named Borgia. Wonder if he helped to solve problems by organizing parties? Catering must have been a bit iffy.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 11 July, 2013, 12:47:17 pm
Print your own arse.
http://arsuprint.pl/

(completely safe  :))
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: numbnuts on 25 July, 2013, 02:20:10 pm
Dunwalkin Driving School
http://www.dunwalkin.com/
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 09 August, 2013, 01:46:39 pm
This is where Flatus buys his baby's clothes.
http://fartlandia.pl/
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 24 August, 2013, 10:19:34 pm
There are so many ways to misinterpret this one.
http://www.beatit.pl/en/
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 September, 2013, 02:14:01 am
I passed a truck this morning belonging to an outfit called Lezzer Lumber...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 04 September, 2013, 04:52:49 am
It's not the name, it's the deliberately naughty tagline.

http://www.ckscaffolds.com/
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Giraffe on 04 September, 2013, 04:12:47 pm
I saw a gymn t'other day -t'was called "Fit for Less". OK.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Furious on 04 September, 2013, 05:36:57 pm
http://www.penisland.net/ (http://www.penisland.net/)

 :o

It is safe for work, and they do sell pens.

"We Specialize In Wood"

After looking through the site, I think they're doing it deliberately...

"a large assortment of exotic virgin woods"
"finishing with hand-rubbed lacquers"
"In most cases we can handle your wood"

Or is it just the internet has destroyed my brain (http://"https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=59553.0")?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 September, 2013, 03:32:11 am
Spotted a couple of large horse trailers on I-84 this afternoon.  The place from whence they hail is called "Sons Of The Wind Farm".  However, their website is www.sonsofthewindfarm.com.

(https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTe0T0Y5ehVd04AY0Ojmrf4EUaIuSGyMZtrhw6b0N1kSN--8On2)

??
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Giraffe on 08 September, 2013, 12:03:50 pm
In Wolverton:

Boyz ll Men

It's a barber - so well in to grooming, then.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Biff on 12 September, 2013, 01:17:49 pm
'Schindler's Lifts'?

http://www.schindler.com/com/internet/en/mobility-solutions/products/elevators/schindler7000.html
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Kim on 12 September, 2013, 01:24:13 pm
'Schindler's Lifts'?

http://www.schindler.com/com/internet/en/mobility-solutions/products/elevators/schindler7000.html

Objection: The company pre-dated Oskar Schindler by about 30 years.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 12 September, 2013, 01:38:00 pm
And the book was Schindler's Ark anyway.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Biff on 15 September, 2013, 08:36:11 pm
(http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc459/esperowl/FUNNYSHOPBUSINESSNAMES003_zpsce8d1ef6.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 15 September, 2013, 10:16:05 pm
'Schindler's Lifts'?

http://www.schindler.com/com/internet/en/mobility-solutions/products/elevators/schindler7000.html

Objection: The company pre-dated Oskar Schindler by about 30 years.

Said company were responsible for the lifts at the (Royal) Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield when it opened, having been a construction project for eons. They were less than reliable, which was a problem in a 19-storey tower block full of patients, staff and studies. They were lampooned mercilessly at a medics' revue.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: meddyg on 18 September, 2013, 09:46:03 pm
Quote
Said company were responsible for the lifts at the (Royal) Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield when it opened, having been a construction project for eons. They were less than reliable, which was a problem in a 19-storey tower block full of patients, staff and studies. They were lampooned mercilessly at a medics' revue.

'Difficulty getting it up, I suppose' ?

I was at Sheffield Medical School '73 -'74 until I got a free transfer.

However the Paternoster ' lifts in the Arts building  were well worth the trip
to the Russian faculty -y'know endless loop - step in  - step out
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 18 September, 2013, 09:51:45 pm
Quote
Said company were responsible for the lifts at the (Royal) Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield when it opened, having been a construction project for eons. They were less than reliable, which was a problem in a 19-storey tower block full of patients, staff and studies. They were lampooned mercilessly at a medics' revue.

'Difficulty getting it up, I suppose' ?

I was at Sheffield Medical School '73 -'74 until I got a free transfer.

However the Paternoster ' lifts in the Arts building  were well worth the trip
to the Russian faculty -y'know endless loop - step in  - step out

The paternoster in the Arts Tower was good for a quick snog as It went over the top or round the bottom of its endless loop. I don't think we were supposed to do that...

I believe Schindler became Schwindler. The lifts were out of order rather frequently initially.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 18 September, 2013, 10:11:10 pm
Saved by an umlaut.

http://www.fuecker-reisen.de/

(so it's "fooker").  Owned by the wonderfully-named Heinz-Günter Fücker, which could be the best German porn star name ever.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: T42 on 18 September, 2013, 10:25:20 pm
There used to be two wholesale butchers down by the abattoir in Stuttgart. One was called Anuss Fleisch and the other Harsch Fleisch (Arsch being German for what you think it is).

There's a house-painter's near us called Hittier. Until a couple of years ago it was Hittler.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 19 September, 2013, 06:32:41 pm
Quote
Said company were responsible for the lifts at the (Royal) Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield when it opened, having been a construction project for eons. They were less than reliable, which was a problem in a 19-storey tower block full of patients, staff and studies. They were lampooned mercilessly at a medics' revue.

'Difficulty getting it up, I suppose' ?

I was at Sheffield Medical School '73 -'74 until I got a free transfer.

However the Paternoster ' lifts in the Arts building  were well worth the trip
to the Russian faculty -y'know endless loop - step in  - step out
Zoinks galore! I seem to have perhaps possibly heard the name in a lift context but I didn't know what it was and I've certainly never seen one. I can only assume it got its name because it's a good idea to pray before getting in or out...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8-RdjCll0w
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 19 September, 2013, 08:58:43 pm
I *loved* the paternoster! Little queueing and constant movement kept people circulating. The conventional lift queues at the RHH were such that I usually used the stairs. My house job was on K floor, which was 9th or 10th...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 September, 2013, 09:15:23 pm
I saw an advert for 'Eco Wee' in the SAS in flight mag today. It didn't appear to be anything to do with urine but it made me snigger :)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 25 September, 2013, 10:48:25 pm
Not really subversive at all: http://lietosecurity.com.pl/
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: mr magnolia on 26 September, 2013, 10:24:54 am
I *loved* the paternoster! Little queueing and constant movement kept people circulating. The conventional lift queues at the RHH were such that I usually used the stairs. My house job was on K floor, which was 9th or 10th...

Back in the day, when I worked for *big co* there was a paternoster lift in the main block, and an accompanying story about the initiation of tea ladies by directing them, with their trollies, to said lift as they left on their first ever tea rounds. There was always someone who claimed to have travelled all the way over the top and around the back of the system....
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: clarion on 26 September, 2013, 11:17:30 am
Arts Tower Paternoster - ah, memories!

Generally, it broke down after Freshers Week requiring substantial repairs, and keeping it out of action for a long time.  Possibly due to the japes.

I recall the wallpapering of one level, a toilet bowl being put in, with someone sat on it, trousers down, reading a newspaper.  Mixture of horror and hilarity among the students.

There was the chap who went over the top facing the back, and turned round, lying down, on the descent, revealing gory injury make up, supposedly from the crushing in the gear mechanism.  I think some Freshers cacked their pants after that one.

But sometimes the simplest ones are the best.  The ingenious woman who went up over the top and back down doing a handstand was rather clever, and got studes puzzling.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: graculus on 26 September, 2013, 02:48:38 pm
I experienced it as a 6th former up at Sheffield for interview (what I was doing in the Art Tower I know not as my intended degree course was Chem. Eng.).

Does it still have the cryptic label 'over travel through loft or pit is not dangerous'?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 26 September, 2013, 04:08:00 pm
If you announced your intention to ride around the top or bottom, someone would invariably press the emergency stop button at the crucial point and leave you in the dark, waiting for the maintenance crew to come and bollock you.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Biff on 01 October, 2013, 11:48:59 pm
(http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/4900/dickliquor.jpg)

Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 02 October, 2013, 05:49:07 pm
http://www.tnyh.ca/

Oh dear.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: SteveC on 02 October, 2013, 06:27:31 pm
I experienced it as a 6th former up at Sheffield for interview (what I was doing in the Art Tower I know not as my intended degree course was Chem. Eng.).

Does it still have the cryptic label 'over travel through loft or pit is not dangerous'?
You are me and I claim my £5.
I too was intending to do Chem Eng at Sheffield. The Arts Tower was part of the tour organised by the students' union and we all 'had' to go round the top--I seem to remember the student taking us round saying something like "just follow me" as he got into the 'up' side when we were already on the top floor!
Nearly got snowed into the uni as well!
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: graculus on 03 October, 2013, 07:54:24 pm
I experienced it as a 6th former up at Sheffield for interview (what I was doing in the Art Tower I know not as my intended degree course was Chem. Eng.).

Does it still have the cryptic label 'over travel through loft or pit is not dangerous'?
You are me and I claim my £5.
I too was intending to do Chem Eng at Sheffield. The Arts Tower was part of the tour organised by the students' union and we all 'had' to go round the top--I seem to remember the student taking us round saying something like "just follow me" as he got into the 'up' side when we were already on the top floor!
Nearly got snowed into the uni as well!
Not quite! (peeks at SteveC's profile and realises why his avatar looks familiar - it is because we met each other 35 years ago)
Hi Steve.
It's Mike (Sheena's out circle dancing at present)
Small world.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 15 October, 2013, 07:13:13 pm
Back on topic...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spunk_%28candy%29

And yes, they do taste salty   :sick:
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: MattH on 15 October, 2013, 07:23:10 pm
I must admit to having asked a young lady if she'd like to taste my spunk, before producing the box  :)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Vince on 31 October, 2013, 10:44:19 am
(http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t140/VinceHall/CyclingStuff/2013-10-30183622_zpsbb447b8f.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: clarion on 31 October, 2013, 11:05:20 am
Firklover.

It's a chocolate bar from Norway.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 31 October, 2013, 11:54:13 am
Mardybum. (http://mardybum.pl/index.htm)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: clarion on 31 October, 2013, 12:02:46 pm
What on earth does that mean in (I presume) Polish? :o

Do they use the Arctic Monkeys' song as a corporate anthem, d'ye think? ;D
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 31 October, 2013, 12:13:58 pm
It doesn't mean anything. It's one woman making and selling dolls, toys and jewellery, so perhaps she's an Arctic Monkeys fun - makes as much sense as anything else.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: clarion on 31 October, 2013, 12:17:41 pm
Or maybe she's just a mardybum.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Ham on 31 October, 2013, 01:49:04 pm
Badly named book  but still might be useful for forumers needing to educate their children

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=9780710511287&n=100121503&cm_sp=mbc-_-9780710511287-_-used
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: tiermat on 31 October, 2013, 01:55:30 pm
One I saw on the way into work the other day, a bit of a YACF in-joke (almost)

http://www.bobblack.uk.com/

I am pretty sure EG doesn't think that of him, but hey.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: ian on 31 October, 2013, 03:52:26 pm
(http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t140/VinceHall/CyclingStuff/2013-10-30183622_zpsbb447b8f.jpg)

I've got a bottle of the Unicum (it's a Hungarian drink). It's best not to swallow.

You can replicate the taste by licking the floor of an A&E in the early hours of a Saturday morning.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Wobbly John on 04 November, 2013, 11:31:30 pm
Hairy Growler Jewellery (http://www.hairygrowler.co.uk/about-hairy-growler/)  :o
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Biff on 12 November, 2013, 06:05:33 pm
(http://i1070.photobucket.com/albums/u496/airwise2/54caf016.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Auntie Helen on 12 November, 2013, 06:14:20 pm
German for 'jewellery' so you see it quite a lot.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Biff on 12 November, 2013, 07:04:25 pm
German for 'jewellery' so you see it quite a lot.

 :facepalm:   :-[
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 13 November, 2013, 06:06:51 pm
A well named supplier of dog food.
http://barf-warszawa.pl/
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 14 November, 2013, 08:35:21 pm
And a well-named consumer of dogfood.
http://maltipoo.pl/
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Biff on 16 November, 2013, 07:28:59 pm
You might think twice before investing your hard-earned with

http://www.carlmarks.com/homepage.aspx
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 17 November, 2013, 03:04:45 pm
Sticking with politics...
Torys in rags! (http://torys.pl)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Giraffe on 18 November, 2013, 12:15:21 pm
In Peterborough:

PMP Recruitment

Cue last round on Only Connect.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Squarewheels on 18 November, 2013, 09:05:50 pm
-Walter Wall Carpets (more than just a clever name)...(they say)...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: clarion on 19 November, 2013, 10:16:02 pm
Not badly named as such, but it makes you wonder why they felt they had to mention it:
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5524/10940622385_2654f2e8ae.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93751227@N04/10940622385/)
PB141966 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93751227@N04/10940622385/) by TJ Clarion (http://www.flickr.com/people/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Gus on 30 November, 2013, 09:07:47 pm
not badly named, but using the wrong type of logo.
http://www.theuntappedsource.com/blog/best-worst-logo-designs/ (http://www.theuntappedsource.com/blog/best-worst-logo-designs/)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Ham on 01 December, 2013, 08:22:28 am
Shedloads more here http://gendermosaic.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/sexual-logos-phallic-symbols-and-sexual.html
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 01 December, 2013, 08:34:43 am
I'm surprised that the onomatopoeically-named FAP (a UAE power company) didn't get on there.  It has a fabulous spurting CDC logo.

Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 06 December, 2013, 09:07:41 pm
(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg74/jubed/image001-1.png)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: T42 on 06 December, 2013, 09:34:34 pm
Run by a regular guy, presumably.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 08 December, 2013, 11:57:48 am
Gescrappened or geese crap?

(http://www.gescrap.com/english/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gescrap-icono.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 13 December, 2013, 07:55:06 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-25362863

DONG Energy Power...we could mostly use a little of that.  Love the capitals.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: contango on 14 December, 2013, 11:07:04 am

I read that Susan Boyle released a new album, launched with the website susanalbumparty.com

Innocent enough, until you respace the words.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 14 December, 2013, 11:45:28 am

I read that Susan Boyle released a new album, launched with the website susanalbumparty.com

Innocent enough, until you respace the words.

I rather like the idea of arty bumps...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 15 December, 2013, 05:27:20 pm
Or Susana and her pound of arty ump(h).
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: meddyg on 25 December, 2013, 08:20:38 pm
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2882/11552513134_0592def41a.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 December, 2013, 11:56:28 am
A couple of years ago I lived just around the corner from a hairdresser's called "The hairdresser" where they'd had the letters done randomly in yellow, orange, blue and green. Unfortunately they'd not paid enough attention to which letters would disappear under sodium streetlighting and at night the sign would appear as:

T.. .A.R...S.E.

After the infamous Michael Fish storm of 1987, the branch of Dewhurst the Butcher, in Southend, had all the letters blown off the front of the shop. Some wag had returned them, but rearranged them to read "WE TURDS". I don't know what happened to the H. Perhaps they dropped it.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: perpetual dan on 26 December, 2013, 03:53:59 pm
(http://dqdqvfk41fkzb.cloudfront.net/INTERSHOP/static/WFS/Majestic-uk-Site/-/Majestic/en_GB/p/37168_p.jpg)

"Ned" wine. That's aspirational marketing if I ever saw it.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 26 December, 2013, 03:55:44 pm

I read that Susan Boyle released a new album, launched with the website susanalbumparty.com

Innocent enough, until you respace the words.
Tautology there, Su, and a missing apostrophe.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Pingu on 26 December, 2013, 10:19:45 pm
(http://dqdqvfk41fkzb.cloudfront.net/INTERSHOP/static/WFS/Majestic-uk-Site/-/Majestic/en_GB/p/37168_p.jpg)

"Ned" wine. That's aspirational marketing if I ever saw it.

(http://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Buckfast1-354x640.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Somnolent on 28 December, 2013, 04:54:03 pm
(http://www.nicolas.com/images/nicolas/contrib/grand/p436576.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Ham on 03 January, 2014, 10:06:58 am
Would you be happy stepping into one of these? I've always thought the sharing of body excretions in an ideal environment for microbiological propagation is odd, but this .....

http://www.poolandspa.com/
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Charlotte on 03 January, 2014, 02:11:33 pm
www.norkclinicbanstead.co.uk

:D
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: clarion on 03 January, 2014, 06:25:26 pm
Anyone visiting Corridori Cycles will probably have enjoyed the delights of Nork.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Zipperhead on 09 January, 2014, 03:36:42 pm
The small boy in me (which is really all there is of me) was highly amused this morning when I stopped behind a lorry and saw the name of the company - Cleveland Cable Company (http://www.clevelandcable.com/)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hatler on 09 January, 2014, 05:35:14 pm
www.norkclinicbanstead.co.uk

:D
Be careful now. That was my doctors' when I was a lad.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: PaulR on 09 January, 2014, 05:43:43 pm
...and I often hear my MiL reminiscing about her childhood in Nork Way
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: spesh on 09 January, 2014, 05:46:02 pm
Seen on a van in Pompey this week:

Martin Leaning Masts & Rigging (http://www.masts-and-rigging.co.uk/)

Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hatler on 09 January, 2014, 05:53:32 pm
...and I often hear my MiL reminiscing about her childhood in Nork Way
Blimey, that was just round the corner.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 15 March, 2014, 04:51:36 pm
From my Twitter feed:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BiyDBoJCMAEDet8.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Basil on 05 August, 2014, 09:44:59 pm
A colleague, who commutes in from the Black Country, told me that she passes a company called B J Cheese.
I didn't believe her, but there was no way either of us were going to Google that at work.

Bloody hell!  It's true.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: eck on 05 August, 2014, 09:49:06 pm
A colleague, who commutes in from the Black Country, told me that she passes a company called B J Cheese.
I didn't believe her, but there was no way either of us were going to Google that at work.

Bloody hell!  It's true.
When my kids were little, there was a local after-school club in Dundee which called itself BJ's Fun Club.
I was told there was a long waiting list.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Steph on 05 August, 2014, 10:09:14 pm
(http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/ae29/cyclisttony/DSCF6049.jpg) (http://s954.photobucket.com/user/cyclisttony/media/DSCF6049.jpg.html)

(http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/ae29/cyclisttony/1169.jpg) (http://s954.photobucket.com/user/cyclisttony/media/1169.jpg.html)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Jurek on 05 August, 2014, 10:15:19 pm
You'd think this lot (http://www.modernmix.co.uk/) would've changed their trading name.... no?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Steph on 05 August, 2014, 10:37:41 pm
One of my favourite characters was named Virginia Saville by me as a deliberate play on his name, for she is known as 'Ginny'. Oops.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: jsabine on 06 August, 2014, 12:39:45 am
You'd think this lot (http://www.modernmix.co.uk/) would've changed their trading name.... no?

Bzzzt - repetition (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=50596.msg1449851#msg1449851).
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hulver on 06 August, 2014, 01:30:35 pm
Does anybody want some Birley Builders?

http://www.birleybuilders.co.uk/
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 August, 2014, 02:11:39 pm
Does anybody want some Birley Builders?

http://www.birleybuilders.co.uk/

I once had a cow-orker named Simon Burley.  From Purley.  Sadly Mrs Burley wasn't named Shirley.

He drove a minter Capri 2.8i.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 06 August, 2014, 06:56:11 pm
I note partner's camera tripod is a manfrotto...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: andrewc on 22 August, 2014, 08:18:50 am
I was doing some work for this outfit yesterday.....      http://www.weeworld.com/ (http://www.weeworld.com/)

Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Auntie Helen on 22 August, 2014, 05:33:16 pm
There's a company that makes sensors in Germany with the fantastic name of 'Sick'

http://www.neffpower.com/neff-power-products/sick-optic-electronics-advanced-optic-sensors
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: pdm on 23 August, 2014, 11:16:16 am

(http://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Buckfast1-354x640.jpg)

Many moons ago, we visited Buckfast Abbey. The label on the bottles then also contained the sentence: "Guaranteed to contain no meat"
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Efrogwr on 23 August, 2014, 11:40:22 am
A wine merchant in Alsace; J P Sick.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: StuAff on 23 August, 2014, 04:54:54 pm
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2936/14321386087_d947fd9e91_c.jpg)
Rochefort-sur-Loire, just SW of Angers, a couple of months back. Obviously inspired by 7-11....sort of.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: perpetual dan on 23 August, 2014, 07:09:18 pm
Passed a sign for "Jump Start Nursery" in Brighton today.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 07 August, 2015, 07:06:24 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CL0xyIgWsAA6I6Q.jpg:large)

Actually, this is a British firm which clears septic tanks and jets drains...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Jaded on 08 August, 2015, 12:40:15 am
Bastard Automobile in Sallanches (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@45.957146,6.633863,3a,75y,218.45h,97.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1RnyzBEj3HY4-SCakXAuHA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1)

Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Giraffe on 08 August, 2015, 12:04:17 pm
Not a business as such: software utility for pasting clips of text called TwinkiePaste. The developer probably has Smeg white goods.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 23 September, 2015, 03:52:22 pm
Bastard Automobile in Sallanches (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@45.957146,6.633863,3a,75y,218.45h,97.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1RnyzBEj3HY4-SCakXAuHA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1)
I remember seeing a firm of the same name somewhere in France circa 1986.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Bledlow on 23 September, 2015, 06:53:42 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CL0xyIgWsAA6I6Q.jpg:large)

Actually, this is a British firm which clears septic tanks and jets drains...
Therefore badly named because it's not Italian.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Torslanda on 23 September, 2015, 07:25:36 pm
But it definitely 'does what it says on the tin'!
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Guy on 24 September, 2015, 08:30:30 am
I saw a smallish sheet-sided vand yesterfay morning with the letters "f g m" writ large on the side, which I thought was a bit unfortunate considering what most people now think of when they see those letters.

Still, if it helps to keep the issue in the public eye it can't be a bad thing.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: spesh on 24 September, 2015, 12:47:02 pm
Rhyming slang FTW!  ;D

Or not, as the case may be...  :-X :sick:

Quote from: Aunty Beeb
The owners of a kebab shop which sold food contaminated with human faeces have been ordered to pay compensation to customers who became ill.

A rare strain of E. coli - only the second outbreak of its kind in Europe - was found at The Khyber Pass in Nottingham in June 2014.
In August, owners Mohammad Abdul Basit and Amjad Bhatti pleaded guilty to breaching food hygiene regulations.
(Emphasis mine)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-34337626
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Legs on 24 September, 2015, 01:40:54 pm
Every time I see an advertising hoarding for http://www.dbassremovals.com/ (http://www.dbassremovals.com/), I wonder why anyone would want to have their ass removed...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Ham on 28 September, 2015, 06:12:33 pm
I've just noticed on Linkedin that a colleague from a while back now works for the CDCard Company ... truly appropriate, actually.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Aunt Maud on 28 September, 2015, 06:25:57 pm
There's a carpenter round out way called Klit.

Apparently if your house is skidt, ring til Klit.

Or in the lingo "Har dit hus det skidt, ring til Klit"
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 30 September, 2015, 10:47:59 am
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g294308-d808137-Reviews-Turtle_s_Head_Pub_Microbrewery-Quito_Pichincha_Province.html

 ;D
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 01 October, 2015, 11:51:57 pm
Pedant alert!
Why use an octagon for your company logo?
http://tinyurl.com/q2vbv5v (http://tinyurl.com/q2vbv5v)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Torslanda on 02 October, 2015, 08:59:20 am
Pedant alert!
Why use an octagon for your company logo?
http://tinyurl.com/q2vbv5v (http://tinyurl.com/q2vbv5v)

I'm nicking that!
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: T42 on 02 October, 2015, 09:10:16 am
^Me too.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 02 October, 2015, 10:01:56 am
Pedant alert!
Why use an octagon for your company logo?
http://tinyurl.com/q2vbv5v (http://tinyurl.com/q2vbv5v)
that is brilliant. It's like a parody of that design meeting where the engineer tries to explain why the triangle can't be made up of parallel lines.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: T42 on 02 October, 2015, 10:04:52 am
"...because they only meet at infinity."

"How do you know? Have you been there?"
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Giraffe on 02 October, 2015, 04:11:11 pm
"...because they only meet at infinity."

"How do you know? Have you been there?"
I did at work - good for covering my own arse.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 03 October, 2015, 11:15:47 am
Pedant alert!
Why use an octagon for your company logo?
http://tinyurl.com/q2vbv5v (http://tinyurl.com/q2vbv5v)

I am minded to start an 'Ignorance that makes you cringe' thread the next time I see something like this...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Andrij on 02 December, 2015, 05:39:27 pm
The BBC reports on an Indian company (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34975365)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: T42 on 02 December, 2015, 05:43:25 pm
Quote
Google is a play on the word googol - the term for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros

No it isn't. They really thought it was spelt that way.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Basil on 02 December, 2015, 05:49:19 pm
The BBC reports on an Indian company (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34975365)

Every teenage boy knows what a spunk sock is.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: woollypigs on 02 December, 2015, 05:56:04 pm
The BBC reports on an Indian company (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34975365)

Every teenage boy knows what a spunk sock is.
what is wrong with Lakris ?

(http://dagligvarernettet.dk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Spunk-Lakrids.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 03 December, 2015, 09:07:58 am
The curious thing is how spunk got from bravery to, well, spunk. Presumably through having balls.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: T42 on 03 December, 2015, 09:28:02 am
Barley-corn, barley-corn, injun-meal shorts,
Spunk-water, spunk-water, swaller these warts.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 03 December, 2015, 09:14:55 pm
There's an IT company called Splunk.  They seem to enjoy the confusion.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hujev on 08 December, 2015, 09:11:42 pm
I still remember the late 1970s TV ads for 'the aids diet plan' (may have been some similar spelling). I recall it continued well into the early 1980s... I hate feeling embarrassed for people I don't even know!

Also, when I was living in Ukraine about 15 years ago, 'fart' beer was one of the locals. (fart means luck in Ukrainian).

Lastly, there is a roadhouse a bit south of here (Fairbanks Alaska, which is why I don't 'get' so many of the posts in this thread or elsewhere in the English Language...) called 'skinny dick's halfway inn' - not sure if it's the same as referred to with slightly different name earlier; the link there was 'censored' on my US Government komputer (just as well...). I always call it 'slippery dicks', as I have heard the owner is just that. Have never been there...

 
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Andrij on 08 December, 2015, 09:37:21 pm

Also, when I was living in Ukraine about 15 years ago, 'fart' beer was one of the locals. (fart means luck in Ukrainian).


Що?!?   :o    *дивиться у словники*   А-га, це жарґог/сланґ.

Wondered how I had missed that word, but a bit of research confirms that is a slang term, arising from the 'criminal classes' (according to one of my dictionaries).
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 08 December, 2015, 10:00:37 pm
The same word is used in Polish, as is fuks. I've not seen any beer with either name but I've seen a pub called Fuks. It was a 'sports' bar aimed at anglers. 
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 09 December, 2015, 12:57:06 am
I still remember the late 1970s TV ads for 'the aids diet plan' (may have been some similar spelling). I recall it continued well into the early 1980s... I hate feeling embarrassed for people I don't even know!

The slimming sweeties were called Ayds.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: T42 on 09 December, 2015, 08:17:31 am
There should be a verb similar to google-bombing for what happens to a business whose name is usurped by something vile, such as AIDS or ISIS.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 09 December, 2015, 09:14:04 am
Or all those punters among the dreaming spires.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 December, 2015, 10:07:08 am
There should be a verb similar to google-bombing for what happens to a business whose name is usurped by something vile, such as AIDS or ISIS.

There should also be a word for the kind of low-browed grunting dick who gives people or businesses grief for being called "Isis".  Yes, you, Ferrero, who refused to give a little girl in Australia a personalised jar of Nutella.  With this dickishness you are spoiling us, and the entire world.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 09 December, 2015, 06:55:53 pm
There should be a verb similar to google-bombing for what happens to a business whose name is usurped by something vile, such as AIDS or ISIS.
A lot of baby girls have been called Isis in recent years (after the Egyptian goddess, not the fundie bastards).  Oh dear.  Still, there is a precedent; poor old Ira Gershwin.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Tim Hall on 09 December, 2015, 07:40:16 pm
Where does the second boat in Oxford University's rowing club stand in all this?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 December, 2015, 01:03:39 am
Where does the second boat in Oxford University's rowing club stand in all this?

I expect it'll be sunk by the USAF before long.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: T42 on 10 December, 2015, 07:38:39 am
Where does the second boat in Oxford University's rowing club stand in all this?

I expect it'll be sunk by the USAF before long.

Bags I a drumstick.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: T42 on 15 December, 2015, 05:56:39 pm
Not a business but a product: the Cooler Master Storm Devastator is really just a computer keyboard.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Basil on 15 December, 2015, 06:10:48 pm
Not a business but a product: the Cooler Master Storm Devastator is really just a computer keyboard.

Are keyboards like bikes?  The more aggressive the name, the more rubbish the product.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mr Larrington on 15 December, 2015, 06:42:06 pm
And vice-versa, presumably.  What sort of a rubbish name is "Model M", FFS ???
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: HTFB on 15 December, 2015, 07:46:39 pm
Where does the second boat in Oxford University's rowing club stand in all this?
Not too well. They're going backwards fast.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Kim on 15 December, 2015, 08:06:46 pm
Not a business but a product: the Cooler Master Storm Devastator is really just a computer keyboard.

Are keyboards like bikes?  The more aggressive the name, the more rubbish the product.

More like saddles.  Lots of people seem to swear by the IBM Model M, but some of us only really get on with modern plastic rubbish.

And then there are the darksiders with their voice recognition...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: PeteB99 on 21 January, 2016, 10:51:58 am
Someone's just delivered a leaflet for Fat Boys kebab and pizza
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 21 January, 2016, 07:06:03 pm
https://www.linkedin.com/company/hand-job-auto-detailing
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: HTFB on 21 January, 2016, 07:33:04 pm
https://www.linkedin.com/company/hand-job-auto-detailing
http://www.aveda.co.uk/product/7527/33798/Collections/hand-relief/Hand-Relief-Night-Renewal-Serum/index.tmpl

Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: woollypigs on 22 January, 2016, 11:38:57 am
While scanning the shelves at the local health food shop, I burst out laughing.

http://www.tisserand.com/ - Tisserand Aromatherapy

It works best in Danish: "Tisser" - means taking a piss, or the nickname of the dangly bits on a man, "and" - just means duck, nothing naughty.

But when just fast reading the product name it does look very close and could easily be mis read as - Tissermand.

"Tisser" - as above, "mand" - man. So put together we got the Danish word that kids and parents use for willy. Therefore we got the aroma of a nop in bottles :)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 22 January, 2016, 02:42:26 pm
There's always that Belgian cultural icon..
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: T42 on 02 February, 2016, 07:40:16 am
Not to mention:

http://www.smeg.fr/cuisinieres/
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 02 February, 2016, 04:29:24 pm
Not to mention:

http://www.smeg.fr/cuisinieres/

Win a fridge in today's London24 competition!
http://www.london24.com/competitions/win_a_smeg_fridge_1_4398646?utm_medium=email&utm_source=eshot&utm_campaign=newsletterlink (http://www.london24.com/competitions/win_a_smeg_fridge_1_4398646?utm_medium=email&utm_source=eshot&utm_campaign=newsletterlink)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: ian on 02 February, 2016, 08:45:26 pm
We have a Smeg dishwasher and washing machine. Not bought for the name, they seemed to be only brushed stainless steel appliances going at the time.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 February, 2016, 08:40:07 am
How we laughed at that picture of sadly deceased racing motor-ist Gilles Villeneuve walking down the pit lane with the word "SMEG" writ large across his chest.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: T42 on 03 February, 2016, 12:40:18 pm
Had it entered the vernacular already, back then? Dearie me.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: ian on 03 February, 2016, 12:46:59 pm
SMEG is an acronym (Google says Smalterie Metallurgiche Emiliane Guastalla). Founded 1948, so I think they claim prior art.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 February, 2016, 06:33:46 pm
Had it entered the vernacular already, back then? Dearie me.

He was dead before "Red Dwarf" made its debut but it was still pretty funny.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: clarion on 04 February, 2016, 02:33:54 pm
The word had currency before Red Dwarf.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 05 February, 2016, 04:58:06 pm
From my Twitter feed...
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CadyDSSW4AAVcqJ.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: HTFB on 05 February, 2016, 06:58:49 pm
I can think of no better partner for a bolt, uh?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: slope on 06 February, 2016, 10:52:39 am
In the 90s if one telephoned the Service Department of Wang Computers (by the M4 Chiswick flyover) an American woman with a twangy accent would answer -

"Wang Care, how may I help you?"
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: clarion on 06 February, 2016, 01:14:50 pm
From my Twitter feed...
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CadyDSSW4AAVcqJ.jpg)
That's just nuts!
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Zipperhead on 07 February, 2016, 10:26:53 am
From my Twitter feed...
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CadyDSSW4AAVcqJ.jpg)
That's just nuts!

You just had to get that into the thread didn't you?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Canardly on 07 February, 2016, 12:12:35 pm
Is that logo cropped?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 07 February, 2016, 05:56:22 pm
Shamelessly nabbed from another context in my Twitter feed...
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CaoJ5KiXEAAnbt-.jpg)

Seems rather apt in that congestion...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Giraffe on 09 February, 2016, 08:25:10 am
There was a local-ish coach co. that was R. Souls.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 18 February, 2016, 04:48:16 pm
Had a business card put through my litter box this morning for
CAC Airport Cars.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: T42 on 17 March, 2016, 10:11:00 am
(http://www.pbase.com/image/162798404.jpg)

Should probably go in the appropriately-named businesses thread, if we had one.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 March, 2016, 10:18:15 am
I'm not sure I'd want to work on a fuming industrial park but if Pingfu is short for "Pingfuckit" then I'd at least like to visit.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Giraffe on 18 March, 2016, 09:19:41 am
I'm not sure I'd want to work on a fuming industrial park but if Pingfu is short for "Pingfuckit" then I'd at least like to visit.
Spring is the best time - go now!
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 March, 2016, 09:38:10 am
Ping-fu: ancient martial art practiced mainly by the inhabitants of Furryboottoon.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: David Martin on 18 March, 2016, 10:27:08 am
The visiting Dutch students chortled when they discovered the East Neuk of Fife is indeed a real place.. And got plenty of pictures of themselves with Neuk Beer in one of the local hostelries.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: ElyDave on 18 March, 2016, 04:37:34 pm
Courtaulds at one point decided that their expertise in spinning fibres qualified them to do the same with a plant based meat substitute.

The called it Courtaulds Edible Spun Protein or CESP

Which was a dismal failure and turned by the wags into CESPit
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: T42 on 19 March, 2016, 10:55:51 am
This lot (http://www.areva.com/EN/news-5429/eurysis-mesures-picks-up-speed.html) used to be a customer of mine.

"Piddle in that jar over there, we need it for a drug test".
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 06 May, 2016, 10:18:48 pm
My cousin in Chicago has just Facebooked that he's dining at Minghin Cuisine
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Minghin-Cuisine/1722429267989645 (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Minghin-Cuisine/1722429267989645)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 06 May, 2016, 10:24:33 pm
In the 90s if one telephoned the Service Department of Wang Computers (by the M4 Chiswick flyover) an American woman with a twangy accent would answer -

"Wang Care, how may I help you?"
Similarly, the Fujitsu Siemens laptop repair place used to answer the phone, "Hello, Siemens Staines".
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 May, 2016, 10:27:51 pm
Ping-fu: ancient martial art practiced mainly by the inhabitants of Furryboottoon.

;D
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 19 June, 2016, 11:54:35 pm
bad.org.uk
British Association of Dermatologists.
Trufax!
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: tonyh on 20 June, 2016, 06:55:12 am
Thanks Helly, that cheered me up!

The excellent Bristol and district triathletes attempt something similar with

www.badtri.org/
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Steph on 20 June, 2016, 05:30:07 pm
We have a Smeg dishwasher and washing machine. Not bought for the name, they seemed to be only brushed stainless steel appliances going at the time.

"Brushed"? Wipe clean, shurely...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 July, 2016, 10:25:00 am
Seen on the M25 recently, a lorry from "Carsi Transport".  I suspect it does not mean the same thing in Slovenian, unless there really is money to be made from hauling great white telephones from Maribor to Milton Keynes.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: T42 on 22 July, 2016, 11:08:00 am
Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note
As his carsi to the rampart we hurried...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: spesh on 22 July, 2016, 11:40:16 am
Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note
As his carsi to the rampart we hurried...


Gardez l'eau!
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 July, 2016, 12:51:32 pm
Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note
As his carsi to the rampart we hurried...


Quote from: n molesworth
SIR THE BURIAL SIR OF SIR JOHN MOORE SIR AT CORUNNA SIR
(A titter from 2B they are wet and I will tuough them up after.)
Notadrumwasheardnotafuneralnote
shut up peason larffing
As his carsi
As his carsi what is a carsi sir? gosh is it?
to the rampart we carried
(whisper you did not kno your voice was so lovely)
Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot
PING!
Shut up peason i know sir he's blowing peas at me
Oer the grave where our hero we buried.
(A pause a grave bow i retire and Egad! peason hav placed a dainty pin upon mine seat. Fie!)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 29 July, 2016, 06:34:21 am
There is an officer at Swindon police station called DS Anger, which presumably means he always gets the same role in those good cop/bad cop interrogations.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: T42 on 29 July, 2016, 07:35:35 am
Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note
As his carsi to the rampart we hurried...


Quote from: n molesworth
SIR THE BURIAL SIR OF SIR JOHN MOORE SIR AT CORUNNA SIR
(A titter from 2B they are wet and I will tuough them up after.)
Notadrumwasheardnotafuneralnote
shut up peason larffing
As his carsi
As his carsi what is a carsi sir? gosh is it?
to the rampart we carried
(whisper you did not kno your voice was so lovely)
Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot
PING!
Shut up peason i know sir he's blowing peas at me
Oer the grave where our hero we buried.
(A pause a grave bow i retire and Egad! peason hav placed a dainty pin upon mine seat. Fie!)

George?  George, don't do that.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Pingu on 04 September, 2016, 11:50:54 pm
(https://c4.staticflickr.com/9/8143/29220104411_f60f454d92_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Lw5F2D)
IMG_7417_01 (https://flic.kr/p/Lw5F2D) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Pingu on 04 September, 2016, 11:51:46 pm
(https://c3.staticflickr.com/9/8156/28676196874_4253d30a2c_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KG21gu)
IMG_7418_01 (https://flic.kr/p/KG21gu) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Giraffe on 28 September, 2016, 07:45:51 am
On a van in Northampton: WBP Foods
So, marine ply then - better than cardboard?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 28 September, 2016, 02:38:43 pm
(https://c3.staticflickr.com/9/8156/28676196874_4253d30a2c_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KG21gu)
IMG_7418_01 (https://flic.kr/p/KG21gu) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
"One does not simply fly into Mordor.
One drives an articulated lorry"
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 28 September, 2016, 08:18:27 pm
A product rather than a business name, but:

https://www.amazon.com/Kenneth-Cole-Reaction-Flap-Shot-Portfolio/dp/B01B4URSNG

No idea if it's deliberate.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 28 September, 2016, 08:20:57 pm
Have we had those cheeky German coach ooperators yet?

http://www.fuecker-busreisen.de/

It's better with an umlaut instead of "ue".

It's even better the way they've rendered the umlaut as a seagull in their logo, basically negating it.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 16 December, 2016, 06:43:59 pm
http://thepikeyla.com/
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mr Larrington on 16 December, 2016, 06:58:00 pm
http://thepikeyla.com/

I drove the full length of Sunset Boulevard back in September.  If I'd known about this I could have stopped for a point and a laugh.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Basil on 22 December, 2016, 01:05:36 pm
Parked outside Llandysul churchyard this morning.

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4311/36273150656_ee62e63143_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/XgknXf)20161222_101143 (https://flic.kr/p/XgknXf) by Basil W (https://www.flickr.com/photos/153328377@N08/), on Flickr

I mean.  Really?
I'm sure light hearted flippancy is not what any prospective customer would be looking for at this time.
You're not a fucking hairdressers, mate.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 22 December, 2016, 04:08:30 pm
I suppose it's marginally better than Stone Dead or Tomb Raiser.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Kim on 22 December, 2016, 04:47:33 pm
At least they haven't got a stray apostrophe...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Auntie Helen on 22 December, 2016, 06:12:06 pm
Have we had those cheeky German coach ooperators yet?

http://www.fuecker-busreisen.de/

It's better with an umlaut instead of "ue".

It's even better the way they've rendered the umlaut as a seagull in their logo, basically negating it.
Grevenbroich is just down the road from me (well, 50km away).

A farm about 2km away is called Fückers, according to my Garmin map, but there is no name sign on the building sadly.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 22 December, 2016, 08:27:34 pm
I'm sure light hearted flippancy is not what any prospective customer would be looking for at this time.
You're not a fucking hairdressers, mate.

If most folk agree with you, then they'll go bust soon enough. I'd probably hire them though, if they did good work.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Jaded on 23 December, 2016, 07:27:18 am
I'm sure they are capable of carving out a niche.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Canardly on 24 December, 2016, 10:03:09 am
Thats a good point. Will bolster the local economy.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Bledlow on 05 January, 2017, 11:42:18 am
http://thepikeyla.com/

I drove the full length of Sunset Boulevard back in September.  If I'd known about this I could have stopped for a point and a laugh.
The funny thing is, it must be deliberate. The chef's from East Dulwich, & graduated with distinction from Jamie's Kitchen. It must be his little joke.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: caerau on 05 January, 2017, 12:41:06 pm
I must have missed a trendy high street shop along the way somewhere.


Yesterday I was searching for pen refills for the fountain pen my wife got me for Christmas.


Amongst the shops, down Queen St Cardiff were the bold letters 'OFFICE' on one shop that looked to still be open.  Off I trotted.


Hmm, no pens, only clothes.  WTF?  ::-)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 06 January, 2017, 10:56:13 am
"Office? Is that popular beat combo?"
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: 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...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: andrewc on 24 May, 2017, 11:10:41 pm
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/truck-plows-analtech-odor-leads-hazmat-situation-article-1.3189762?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Legs on 25 May, 2017, 11:54:01 am
Has the Office of Government Commerce logo come up on this thread, or similar, before?  ;D
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 25 May, 2017, 11:58:42 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!
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: MalRees on 03 June, 2017, 07:41:49 am
John Pagan & Son, Funeral Directors, Dumfries.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: HTFB on 03 June, 2017, 08:13:50 am
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"?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 03 June, 2017, 04:47:59 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.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Veronica_chamaedrys_ziedas.JPG/220px-Veronica_chamaedrys_ziedas.JPG)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mr Larrington 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.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Andrij 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 (http://www.ankervanhire.co.uk/) may be asking for trouble.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: essexian 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!
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec 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).
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: T42 on 27 August, 2017, 03:06:41 pm
(http://www.pbase.com/image/166096085.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: T42 on 13 September, 2017, 10:35:38 am
Holy Water, Batman!
(http://www.pbase.com/image/166198300.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 13 September, 2017, 02:18:55 pm
Special shampoo, wash and dry programme for Popemobiles.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 28 September, 2017, 02:02:05 am
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DKpi0PxV4AALHep.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 28 September, 2017, 02:08:33 am
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/09/i-wish-australias-new-space-agency-was-called-arse/
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: T42 on 26 October, 2017, 08:45:52 am
(http://www.pbase.com/johnewing/image/166464907.jpg)

They drive around in Carz.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 December, 2017, 03:46:46 pm
On the side of a lorry on the M25 today: "DISCORDIA"

Hail Eris!
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rafletcher on 22 December, 2017, 04:37:48 pm
On the side of a lorry on the M25 today: "DISCORDIA"

Hail Eris!

See post 359.....
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 December, 2017, 07:58:40 pm
 :facepalm:
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: clarion 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!
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Pingu on 02 January, 2018, 06:30:06 pm
Companies House rejects 50 potentially offensive names (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-42016501)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: andrewc on 03 January, 2018, 06:07:15 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSiqshUUIAUyCFB.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Andrij on 03 January, 2018, 09:04:13 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSiqshUUIAUyCFB.jpg)

 ;D  That's one for the brilliantly-named business thread!
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Guy 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.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: essexian 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/
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: 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
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Ian H 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.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: cygnet 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?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Torslanda on 15 January, 2018, 12:58:33 am
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 . . .
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: 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
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Jakob W 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.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Torslanda on 15 January, 2018, 11:59:46 am
Where's Jacomus when you need him?

Insight required...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: ian on 15 January, 2018, 07:47:28 pm
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.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Beardy on 16 January, 2018, 08:56:19 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  ::-)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Andrij on 27 January, 2018, 08:52:34 pm
(http://google.localdataimages.com/800_WM/2349/23496479.jpg)

To clarify, that is the BARGAIN MEAT CENTRE. :hand:
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Bledlow on 27 January, 2018, 09:05:37 pm
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?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 30 January, 2018, 01:27:49 pm
Observed the 'sham lounge' shop front in the taxi on my hospital clinic trip today.
?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 January, 2018, 01:35:34 pm
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...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: clarion on 13 February, 2018, 11:33:35 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!
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: andrewc on 03 March, 2018, 07:52:51 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXUSzR4WsAAtnFH.jpg)




Now that's what you call a memorable slogan.... :D
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Canardly on 03 March, 2018, 07:56:50 pm
Its a fire sale.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: T42 on 04 March, 2018, 09:05:19 am
Is there a Ralph's around here?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Jaded on 04 March, 2018, 09:37:37 am
Ashes to cashes
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 May, 2018, 11:24:07 pm
I'm not sure the people behind floplast.co.uk went to Specsavers.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: ElyDave 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

(https://i.imgur.com/Z7eHXZj.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic 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 (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.6018763,-0.2688702,3a,15y,99.97h,91.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sF6z5ojGSMnpEhschvRpWCQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Kim on 15 June, 2018, 12:58:48 am
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 (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.6018763,-0.2688702,3a,15y,99.97h,91.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sF6z5ojGSMnpEhschvRpWCQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)

Surprisingly, they punctuate the telephone number properly.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: T42 on 15 June, 2018, 07:44:36 am
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 (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.6018763,-0.2688702,3a,15y,99.97h,91.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sF6z5ojGSMnpEhschvRpWCQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)

Surprisingly, they punctuate the telephone number properly.

Hope it can find its way home.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla 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.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic 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...

Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Basil on 19 June, 2018, 10:52:47 pm
 :o
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Moleman76 on 20 June, 2018, 07:33:20 am
https://goo.gl/images/ykHvSn (https://goo.gl/images/ykHvSn)

probably neither vegan nor vegetarian
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: T42 on 20 June, 2018, 09:06:50 am
Might go well with some of this*:

(http://www.pbase.com/johnewing/image/167596969.jpg)

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

* OK, it means "bones and raw food" but all the same...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Andrij 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.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: woollypigs 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

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Nordic_Sami_people_Lavvu_1900-1920.jpg)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_people
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Kim on 27 November, 2018, 01:51:43 pm
Isn't it more a case of the Norse used anything they wanted to?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: ian on 27 November, 2018, 01:57:55 pm
Is it some Norvish variant of a tiki bar? Everyone likes tiki bars. Fact.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Andrij 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://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Nordic_Sami_people_Lavvu_1900-1920.jpg)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_people

I sit corrected.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: ElyDave 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?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: andytheflyer 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.....
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Moleman76 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"
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Basil on 28 November, 2018, 10:33:21 pm
The Muff Diving Club.

https://www.muffdivingclub.ie/
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Andrij 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.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: essexian on 29 November, 2018, 08:51:03 am
Trans Peninne "TRAINS"

Do I need to say more?????
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 10 December, 2018, 12:31:59 am
What do you call a lorry that crashes into a house?

(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/EA2E/production/_104705995_mediaitem104705994.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 13 December, 2018, 10:29:26 am
https://www.bristol247.com/food-and-drink/restaurants/bare-grills-restaurant-review/

 ::-)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec 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:
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EoLzhw5Kh08/Uf2mZZ0H0lI/AAAAAAAAGWk/kHIkr-pRFSA/s640/Bumpass.jpg)

I was actually looking for a similarly-named town on the China/Kazakhstan border...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec 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
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mr Larrington 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:
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EoLzhw5Kh08/Uf2mZZ0H0lI/AAAAAAAAGWk/kHIkr-pRFSA/s640/Bumpass.jpg)

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.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec 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.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Kim 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'...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 26 February, 2019, 01:39:04 pm
"A bum steer" is a Usanian phrase, I think. I'm imagining that the name is either a complaint from early settlers who'd taken the wrong pass over the mountains, or possibly from an indigenous language (though that would make it odd to have the same name in California and Virginia).
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: ian on 26 February, 2019, 01:56:40 pm
I've been wondering how it's pronounced. I'd assumed Bum-pass but it could be Bump-ass.

This ex-resident of Virginia confirms it's pronounced with no emphasis on the 'ass' and a slight southern drawl so it comes out a sounding a little like Burmpuss.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: spesh on 26 February, 2019, 02:00:22 pm
"A bum steer" is a Usanian phrase, I think. I'm imagining that the name is either a complaint from early settlers who'd taken the wrong pass over the mountains, or possibly from an indigenous language (though that would make it odd to have the same name in California and Virginia).

It's a largely American and Antipodean phrase, believed to have originated from American maritime humour about the perils of trying steer a sailing vessel in reverse.

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


Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Legs on 05 August, 2019, 11:25:49 am
I don't know if there's a terrible-pun-business thread (mostly hairdressers, I suppose), but I saw a van the other day for Spruce Springclean...  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Canardly on 05 August, 2019, 01:01:21 pm
Local builder 'Milk and two sugars'
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: mllePB on 06 August, 2019, 06:59:27 pm
'Shard End Glass' in Birmingham - from the suburb of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shard_End (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shard_End)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Basil on 06 August, 2019, 07:13:26 pm
'Shard End Glass' in Birmingham - from the suburb of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shard_End (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shard_End)

Yes. I remember that one.  Unfortunately they moved across Brum from Shard End to Aston a while back.
Still a great name, though.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 06 August, 2019, 07:14:32 pm
Reminds me of Burnt Oak Timber I did upthread...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Kim on 06 August, 2019, 08:14:38 pm
'Shard End Glass' in Birmingham

I think I got a puncture from some of that once.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 11 August, 2019, 03:30:54 pm
Golden Fountain Chinese Restaurant & Takeaway.

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5927841,-0.3343379,3a,37.5y,47.2h,89.08t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1svwNZPnroxGfqixOpAoKR8Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5927841,-0.3343379,3a,37.5y,47.2h,89.08t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1svwNZPnroxGfqixOpAoKR8Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: caerau on 13 August, 2019, 09:36:33 am
Riding up to my house last night I noticed an advertising board leaning on a skip outside one of my neighbours houses...


Asphire construction and carpentry.


Is it just me or is that what you get the next morning after a hot vindaloo?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: spesh on 16 September, 2019, 02:23:48 pm
Did Glenn Hoddle have a hand in naming this company?

https://www.karmamobility.co.uk/product-category/lightweight-wheelchairs/
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 10 October, 2019, 02:19:30 pm
Looking at Google Maps in my immediate neighbourhood I spy 'Private Tutions @ Low Prices' [sic], which is apparently a language school.

I know there are spelling and grammar threads here but to have errors both in a business name...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: spesh on 11 October, 2019, 01:58:13 pm
Quote
SCOOP: Indicted pro-trump Ukraine researcher Lev Parnas told people he paid Rudy Giuliani hundreds of thousands of dollars to work for his firm, Fraud Guarantee.

Giuliani first seemed to admit working for the firm in 2018, then said he couldn't confirm.
https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1182481848515121152
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Moleman76 on 12 October, 2019, 04:05:43 am
Quote
SCOOP: Indicted pro-trump Ukraine researcher Lev Parnas told people he paid Rudy Giuliani hundreds of thousands of dollars to work for his firm, Fraud Guarantee.

truth in labeling??
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: woollypigs on 25 October, 2019, 01:41:22 pm
I wonder if they do a buffet

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHt7iEFXUAAVcTc?format=jpg&name=large)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Ham on 26 October, 2019, 03:53:35 pm
I wonder if they do a buffet

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHt7iEFXUAAVcTc?format=jpg&name=large)

Don't chance the water fountain
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Jaded on 26 October, 2019, 06:39:42 pm
Special sauce please.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: T42 on 27 October, 2019, 01:24:26 pm
Self-service?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Giraffe on 23 February, 2020, 08:34:15 am
I wonder what sort of persons from South Africa would book into this hotel:
https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/18230379.roomzzz-hotel-terry-avenue-shut-flood---less-two-months-opening/
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Giraffe on 26 March, 2020, 10:52:35 am
On Look East last night, and Asian food shop called Butt Foods. I wonder if it sells brownies.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Andrij on 26 March, 2020, 04:32:58 pm
On Look East last night, and Asian food shop called Butt Foods. I wonder if it sells brownies.

Part of the same business empire as Butt Barbers (https://goo.gl/maps/kjVdCLvuyV8vmx4K7) in Manor Park, London?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 26 March, 2020, 08:41:22 pm
You probably wouldn't send your kids to a Glitter Pop Party these days https://www.glitterpopparties.co.uk/
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 19 August, 2020, 02:01:18 pm
Ssangyong Motor has, at various points in its history, been called Dong-A Motors and Dongbang Motors.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Andrij on 19 August, 2020, 02:44:24 pm
On the corner of Whitechapel High Street and Osborne Street (S end of Brick Lane) one can find a chippy called "Jack the Chipper".
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 21 November, 2020, 05:50:18 pm
Facebook is advertising a local eatery named Balkan Taste.

Why do I think 'Baulk and Taste'?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Wobbly John on 21 November, 2020, 09:25:47 pm
I keep hearing adverts on the local radio for 'Jap Ass'...  :o

https://japassushi.com/
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 25 January, 2021, 03:57:47 pm
https://www.yewtree.herts.sch.uk/
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Regulator on 25 January, 2021, 04:36:54 pm
I keep hearing adverts on the local radio for 'Jap Ass'...  :o

https://japassushi.com/

No cheap but well worth a visit....  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Legs on 18 February, 2021, 10:14:05 am
I'm designing a building for these people atm

https://www.hillsboroughfencing.com/ (https://www.hillsboroughfencing.com/)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: tiermat on 18 February, 2021, 10:48:50 am
https://www.yewtree.herts.sch.uk/

That took me a minute...

Do you think they should consider a name change?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Pingu on 27 February, 2021, 12:35:02 am
Not sure if it's badly named..

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50983039972_2a69dd365a_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kFcpyy)
IMG_1024_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2kFcpyy) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 27 February, 2021, 09:00:40 am
Nonsense, it's just a German lady with Iranian roots.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Jaded on 27 February, 2021, 09:08:13 am
You can't see her roots from there.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Hot Flatus on 27 February, 2021, 02:59:02 pm
https://www.yewtree.herts.sch.uk/

Well they do have a member of staff with the rather unfortunate surname of 'Raper'
Title: Re: The badly-named products thread
Post by: T42 on 15 April, 2021, 11:38:07 am
In Aldi today:

(https://pbase.com/image/171559115.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 15 April, 2021, 02:45:36 pm
Pale straw colour, one assumes.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Peter on 15 April, 2021, 02:56:56 pm
So many possibilities;  Slash as in "going for a" and IPA as in "It's piss already".
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 15 April, 2021, 08:23:51 pm
You don't BUY beer here; you just rent it...
Title: Re: The badly-named products thread
Post by: Mr Larrington on 15 April, 2021, 08:31:52 pm
In Aldi today:

(https://pbase.com/image/171559115.jpg)

Doesn’t look much like him out of Guns N' Roses ???

Edit: except for the nose ring, obv.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 13 May, 2021, 10:41:14 am
http://www.mikehunt.co.za/index.php?route=common/home
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 May, 2021, 10:50:31 am
A former factory building round the corner from Larrington Towers is getting the full treatment from a gang of rufty-tufty hairy-arsed builders, to which end there is a portaloo outside same.  The said khazi belongs to an outfit yclept “Tardis”.  I know the things vaguely resemble a phone box but is it bigger on the inside than the outside?  Are those odd groaning noises heard when it’s in operation the result of [“I don’t think we really need to pursue that one” – Ed.]?  Have some, or more, of the rufty-tufty hairy-arsed builders fetched up in a distant star system (this would go some way to explaining why the work is taking so long)?  And how did they resist the temptation to call themselves “Turdis”?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Pingu on 17 June, 2021, 09:18:29 pm
Local driving school: Startkey and Clutch
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 18 June, 2021, 06:21:15 am
I saw Jason Donervan on the road this week.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: ktuludays on 18 June, 2021, 06:32:57 am
Saw a dog grooming van around Sheffield called "snip doggy dog'

A local hair salon near me is called scissor sisters, sadly they've only ever cut hair when I've been in.

Sent from my LLD-L31 using Tapatalk

Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: andrewc on 05 July, 2021, 07:36:38 pm
https://www.noncefinance.com   :facepalm:


https://boingboing.net/2021/07/05/finance-startup-names-itself-nonce-a-cryptographic-term-that-is-also-uk-term-for-child-rapists.html
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: quixoticgeek on 05 July, 2021, 08:28:14 pm

Didn't know we had this thread, so had put it here instead:

https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=49325.msg2638703#msg2638703

J
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: quixoticgeek on 05 July, 2021, 09:59:03 pm


On a similar vane, from the Scandis this time.

https://twitter.com/Pandamoanimum/status/1412152948109369345

J
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: MattH on 06 July, 2021, 07:03:30 pm
Reminiscent of the Danish salty spunk (https://www.allthingsliquorice.co.uk/products/danish/spunk-salzlakritz-20g.html).
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 21 July, 2021, 10:22:13 pm
Camelford in Cornwall has the not-entirely-accidental-I-suspect Camel Tow Recovery.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 28 August, 2021, 03:55:46 pm
The nearby Chinese supermarket has changed its name to Feel The Oriental In You  ;D
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: robgul on 28 August, 2021, 04:53:38 pm
Flyer through the door today describing itself as "The dangerous tree company" 
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: cookiemonster on 29 August, 2021, 10:01:28 am
There are a chain of shops here in Hong Kong called 'Wanko.'  ;D
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: slope on 10 September, 2021, 08:20:38 pm
Active Drainage Ltd

"Active Drainage Ltd is a family-run, independent drainage company based in Barnstaple and we cover all of North Devon"
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: grams on 08 November, 2021, 11:49:57 am
Cycling towards a shop called Any Hour Glass I was disappointed to learn it was an all hours glazier and not the comprehensive emporium of egg timers I’d imagined.

(No doubt the proprietor of the latter would shudder and give you a stern lecture any time you called them egg timers)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 08 November, 2021, 12:45:14 pm
Cycling towards a shop called Any Hour Glass I was disappointed to learn it was an all hours glazier and not the comprehensive emporium of egg timers I’d imagined.

(No doubt the proprietor of the latter would shudder and give you a stern lecture any time you called them egg timers)
Certain forumites are no doubt disappointed to discover Any Hour Glass is not a purveyor of corsets and bodices.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Ham on 08 November, 2021, 12:55:46 pm
Cycling towards a shop called Any Hour Glass I was disappointed to learn it was an all hours glazier and not the comprehensive emporium of egg timers I’d imagined.

(No doubt the proprietor of the latter would shudder and give you a stern lecture any time you called them egg timers)
Certain forumites are no doubt disappointed to discover Any Hour Glass is not a purveyor of corsets and bodices.

...or a bar prepared to serve intoxicating liquor at any time, day or night
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: robgul on 11 November, 2021, 07:05:51 pm
Not quite a badly-named business - but a perhaps ill-ftting product on the shelves?    I went into the local B&M emporium to buy some cheap paint (all the known brands but discounted) - what I wasn't expecting to see, and buy a can thereof, was "yacht varnish"

That go me wondering how many B&M customers have a yacht that needs varnishing?

Yeah, I know - but it did amuse me as I used the yacht varnish on a piece of outdoor furniture.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Tim Hall on 11 November, 2021, 07:34:44 pm
Cycling towards a shop called Any Hour Glass I was disappointed to learn it was an all hours glazier and not the comprehensive emporium of egg timers I’d imagined.

(No doubt the proprietor of the latter would shudder and give you a stern lecture any time you called them egg timers)
Certain forumites are no doubt disappointed to discover Any Hour Glass is not a purveyor of corsets and bodices.

Like this:
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/f9oYTPaOXVOBbGO6oeeO9BGXOjRNyNv8-zTt2GxZJP4rK7pjG-a4QBTRBS-v1-IzSaHbudDe3NG0bsK8IrjBiU2VlAotMJUGLHLPphck3fVidJahGpj8r4VB2Q2LiT1n5GZAMwDzoew=w2400)
No, not the Sheldon sticker, the one below that.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Jurek on 11 November, 2021, 09:43:03 pm
Cycling towards a shop called Any Hour Glass I was disappointed to learn it was an all hours glazier and not the comprehensive emporium of egg timers I’d imagined.

(No doubt the proprietor of the latter would shudder and give you a stern lecture any time you called them egg timers)
Certain forumites are no doubt disappointed to discover Any Hour Glass is not a purveyor of corsets and bodices.

Like this:
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/f9oYTPaOXVOBbGO6oeeO9BGXOjRNyNv8-zTt2GxZJP4rK7pjG-a4QBTRBS-v1-IzSaHbudDe3NG0bsK8IrjBiU2VlAotMJUGLHLPphck3fVidJahGpj8r4VB2Q2LiT1n5GZAMwDzoew=w2400)
No, not the Sheldon sticker, the one below that.
I've seen a sticker like that on a bike belonging to Julian (otp) - but that doesn't look like any bike I've ever seen her on.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Tim Hall on 12 November, 2021, 08:50:35 am
Cycling towards a shop called Any Hour Glass I was disappointed to learn it was an all hours glazier and not the comprehensive emporium of egg timers I’d imagined.

(No doubt the proprietor of the latter would shudder and give you a stern lecture any time you called them egg timers)
Certain forumites are no doubt disappointed to discover Any Hour Glass is not a purveyor of corsets and bodices.

Like this:
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/f9oYTPaOXVOBbGO6oeeO9BGXOjRNyNv8-zTt2GxZJP4rK7pjG-a4QBTRBS-v1-IzSaHbudDe3NG0bsK8IrjBiU2VlAotMJUGLHLPphck3fVidJahGpj8r4VB2Q2LiT1n5GZAMwDzoew=w2400)
No, not the Sheldon sticker, the one below that.
I've seen a sticker like that on a bike belonging to Julian (otp) - but that doesn't look like any bike I've ever seen her on.
The sticker is on a tandem.
The photo was taken at the Hilly 50
The stoker is taller than Teh Julian (who is always right)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Jurek on 12 November, 2021, 09:45:01 am
Cycling towards a shop called Any Hour Glass I was disappointed to learn it was an all hours glazier and not the comprehensive emporium of egg timers I’d imagined.

(No doubt the proprietor of the latter would shudder and give you a stern lecture any time you called them egg timers)
Certain forumites are no doubt disappointed to discover Any Hour Glass is not a purveyor of corsets and bodices.

Like this:
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/f9oYTPaOXVOBbGO6oeeO9BGXOjRNyNv8-zTt2GxZJP4rK7pjG-a4QBTRBS-v1-IzSaHbudDe3NG0bsK8IrjBiU2VlAotMJUGLHLPphck3fVidJahGpj8r4VB2Q2LiT1n5GZAMwDzoew=w2400)
No, not the Sheldon sticker, the one below that.
I've seen a sticker like that on a bike belonging to Julian (otp) - but that doesn't look like any bike I've ever seen her on.
The sticker is on a tandem.
The photo was taken at the Hilly 50
The stoker is taller than Teh Julian (who is always right)
You have given enough information that I can figure out to whom the tandem belongs.
But I won't tell'em........
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Tim Hall on 12 November, 2021, 09:50:37 am
Heh.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 November, 2021, 09:57:24 am
Like Jurek, I also identified the owners, knowing that C & J have never, to my knowledge, owned a tandem in that colour.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: MattH on 15 November, 2021, 12:34:54 pm
Does the bottom sticker have some significance? Like some secret society membership? Or is it purely advertising the owner's preference in undergarments?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Pedaldog. on 16 November, 2021, 11:18:50 pm
Fasttech (Chinese) = "Pony Express Tech'".
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Tom Joad on 18 November, 2021, 12:37:11 pm
Legal Food, a Chinese takeaway in Lincoln. Local legend has it that the owner told the signwriter Regal Food but with a Chinese accent the R turned into an L. They serve quality food at a low price.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: grams on 18 November, 2021, 03:20:47 pm
Is there a silent “I can’t believe it’s” at the beginning? Or ”Barely”?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Tom Joad on 18 November, 2021, 04:42:07 pm
Not quite a badly-named business - but a perhaps ill-ftting product on the shelves?    I went into the local B&M emporium to buy some cheap paint (all the known brands but discounted) - what I wasn't expecting to see, and buy a can thereof, was "yacht varnish"

That go me wondering how many B&M customers have a yacht that needs varnishing?

Yeah, I know - but it did amuse me as I used the yacht varnish on a piece of outdoor furniture.

That's where I got the varnish I use on my boat. It's a fifty year old 8.5 metre sailing vessel so not grand enough to be called a yacht.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: SteveC on 18 November, 2021, 06:24:50 pm
Legal Food, a Chinese takeaway in Lincoln. Local legend has it that the owner told the signwriter Regal Food but with a Chinese accent the R turned into an L. They serve quality food at a low price.
Many (~30) years ago, I was told that Legal Food was some sort of untranslatable Cantonese pun. The takeaway has been around for that long!
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: grams on 24 November, 2021, 10:17:51 pm
One of the joys of having a dog with an instagram account is the constant stream of invitations to shill for terrible dog accessory brands. Today we got one for something calling itself Pawtly.

It's not even specifically for mildly overweight dogs. What a waste of a name.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: andrewc on 07 December, 2021, 11:30:18 pm
https://nltimes.nl/2021/12/07/balls-weigh-130-grams-named-worst-business-slogan-2021 (https://nltimes.nl/2021/12/07/balls-weigh-130-grams-named-worst-business-slogan-2021)


I’m so ever upper class, high society…..,
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 08 February, 2022, 09:01:06 pm
I've just seen an advert for holidays in the Florida Keys. Complete with url: fla-keys.com
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Beardy on 09 February, 2022, 11:09:23 am
https://nltimes.nl/2021/12/07/balls-weigh-130-grams-named-worst-business-slogan-2021 (https://nltimes.nl/2021/12/07/balls-weigh-130-grams-named-worst-business-slogan-2021)


I’m so ever upper class, high society…..,
Thats an awful lot of free publicity for a ‘bad slogan’  ;D
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Pingu on 24 October, 2022, 09:42:26 pm
Musty burger anyone?

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52451356004_57e6dcd330_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2nUWULd)
IMG_0737_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2nUWULd) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Flite on 25 October, 2022, 11:06:44 am
One of my faourites is Luddite Engineering.
They make parts for old/obsolete machinery for which parts are no longer available
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: T42 on 29 November, 2022, 10:10:35 am
Chum of mine continually posts adverts on FB for a restaurant called Le Redslob.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 29 November, 2022, 02:05:42 pm
https://www.instagram.com/volkswagenitalia/?hl=en

Possibly a spoof, as they seem to prefer "Volkswagen Group Italia".
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Efrogwr on 05 January, 2023, 04:42:29 pm
Double Time Delivery... a logistics company.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: ElyDave on 05 January, 2023, 07:32:46 pm
Acceligize

no idea WTF they do and don't care to learn, but someone from there has looked me up on LInkedIn
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: slope on 05 January, 2023, 07:57:56 pm
Not bad per se, but weird, like naff? In Llanberis there is a German Siemens 'Healthineers' factory

"Siemens Healthineers Llanberis, a wholly owned, 36 acre site, was established in 1992. Siemens Healthineers Llanberis was formerly known as Euro DPC. Since then, Team Llanberis have been proud to achieve many notable accomplishments throughout the years"

1992: Purpose built facility opened at Llanberis & visit from PM John Major

2011: Site given ‘Investors in People’ Standard

2014: Quality Champion Team Award Winner

2016: Wellbeing Team initiated – supported by Bangor University
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 05 January, 2023, 10:13:02 pm
I reckon it's a weird health farm setup like the one Kellogg used to run.  Five mile jog up the pass before dawn, slide down a scree slope of slate on your naked arse, a freezing cold bath in a quarry, then a nice bowl of Coco Pops.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: slope on 05 January, 2023, 10:26:07 pm
And if you cycle up the fabulous very remote single track lane behind the "Healthineers' factory, you hear a low frequency hum that you can feel in your tyres - and maybe see a group of people/partners out the back, clad head to foot in white and with helmets and wellies, sucking on a fag or spliff break. It's Llanberis after all
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 06 January, 2023, 08:03:15 am
you hear a low frequency hum that you can feel in your tyres
The US military never abandoned their search for the Brown Note.  They just offshored the work.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Kim on 11 February, 2023, 10:10:40 pm
Saw a van earlier with "Jay's Room-ovals" written on it, which left me contemplating what a room-oval might be.  Something you might sit in to watch the Superb Owl was my best guess.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 12 February, 2023, 04:38:42 pm
To watch cricket, surely? Or maybe speedway.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 February, 2023, 04:49:56 pm
Stock car racing, with the late Brian Sewell.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: andrewc on 14 February, 2023, 07:09:01 pm
Have we visited the Glory Hole before ?  https://twitter.com/soapachu/status/1625550745683562518


https://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2012/06/22/christian-coffee-shop-becomes-laughing-stock-as-kirk-lashes-out-viral-news-scotland/
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 14 February, 2023, 08:25:12 pm
Sadly, it's now the Faith, Hope and Charity Shop.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 14 February, 2023, 08:44:21 pm
https://www.thomsonlocal.com/search/dog-grooming/bury/doggy-style/723575/01617966623

Probably deliberate.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 31 March, 2023, 04:02:49 pm
Utterly deliberate.

https://www.uranusgeneralstore.com/

"The best fudge comes from Uranus."

They love to pack your fudge, they say.

Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rafletcher on 31 March, 2023, 05:23:45 pm
Saw a van earlier with "Jay's Room-ovals" written on it, which left me contemplating what a room-oval might be.  Something you might sit in to watch the Superb Owl was my best guess.

Probably similar to a “Portaka-bin” as I once styled it  ::-) ::-)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: spesh on 31 March, 2023, 05:40:13 pm
Utterly deliberate.

https://www.uranusgeneralstore.com/

"The best fudge comes from Uranus."

They love to pack your fudge, they say.

Very childish, but damn, I nearly did myself a mischief having a gander at that site.  ;D

Heaven forfend they ever have a commercial tie-up with a certain vehicle hire company.  ;)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 March, 2023, 06:22:09 pm
Utterly deliberate.

https://www.uranusgeneralstore.com/

"The best fudge comes from Uranus."

They love to pack your fudge, they say.

Been there ;D

(https://live.staticflickr.com/8113/28725540523_9441dd0ea7_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KLnUq4)
P8300043 (https://flic.kr/p/KLnUq4) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/8492/29268051541_7362958013_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LAjq3i)
P8300044 (https://flic.kr/p/LAjq3i) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/8168/29268059641_c515b99729_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LAjsrX)
P8300045 (https://flic.kr/p/LAjsrX) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/8369/29238679232_dbcea2f710_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LxHSFb)
P8300046 (https://flic.kr/p/LxHSFb) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/8205/28723718054_978330a125_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KLdyEb)
P8300048 (https://flic.kr/p/KLdyEb) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/8305/28725597903_6173c5baa0_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KLoctn)
P8300050 (https://flic.kr/p/KLoctn) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

OK, the last one was on the opposite side of the road…
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 31 March, 2023, 09:34:03 pm
The last one is just...wrong  ;D
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 March, 2023, 11:51:51 pm
I was 100% sure RZ would rise to that one :demon:
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Moleman76 on 03 April, 2023, 02:16:19 am
Musty burger anyone?

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52451356004_57e6dcd330_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2nUWULd)
IMG_0737_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2nUWULd) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

I can't imagine that they thought someone would copy the name - why did they bother to register (R) it?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 April, 2023, 07:14:50 pm
The company names Companies House refused to register
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/apr/24/stiff-nipples-about-effing-time-the-company-names-deemed-too-rude-to-register
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rr on 26 April, 2023, 11:06:53 pm
The company names Companies House refused to register
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/apr/24/stiff-nipples-about-effing-time-the-company-names-deemed-too-rude-to-register
Some they did (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/search?q=S%26m)

Sent from my motorola edge 20 using Tapatalk

Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Giraffe on 03 May, 2023, 06:13:53 pm
Seen on a notice board in a village: Icarus Falconry.
On a 12-wheeler (presumably name of company as it was in v. big letters): Discordia.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: SteveC on 03 May, 2023, 06:23:00 pm
On a 12-wheeler (presumably name of company as it was in v. big letters): Discordia.
I've been worried about them for some time. They are from ABROAD where they probably don't read The Illuminati Trilogy.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 May, 2023, 06:36:54 pm
On a 12-wheeler (presumably name of company as it was in v. big letters): Discordia.
I've been worried about them for some time. They are from ABROAD where they probably don't read The Illuminati Trilogy.

Bulgarian, it appears.

Hail Eris!
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Ham on 03 May, 2023, 09:15:30 pm
Seen on a notice board in a village: Icarus Falconry.
On a 12-wheeler (presumably name of company as it was in v. big letters): Discordia.

They first came to my notice while driving on the other side of the 25 mile lorry park of M20, when there were many lorries bearing that cheery logo in the mix. I felt it singularly appropriate.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 03 May, 2023, 09:43:32 pm
I assume Discordia is a geeky reference to The KLF's favourite trilogy?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 May, 2023, 11:53:36 pm
I assume Discordia is a geeky reference to The KLF's favourite trilogy?

Yes.  Yes, it is.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 28 May, 2023, 06:33:46 pm
Damn you AutoCorrect!
https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2023-05-26/advert-for-newly-opened-skeleton-court-care-home-sparks-apology?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0HTy4cQcVReACm7w3L0PbAoyqgnu4_NzuO2NsmY2oU0-nMfkTxmXeUi9g#Echobox=1685105170 (https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2023-05-26/advert-for-newly-opened-skeleton-court-care-home-sparks-apology?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0HTy4cQcVReACm7w3L0PbAoyqgnu4_NzuO2NsmY2oU0-nMfkTxmXeUi9g#Echobox=1685105170)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Bledlow on 29 May, 2023, 12:06:46 am
Mustafa Koc (http://www.koc.com.tr/en-us/Corporate/Board_of_Directors/Pages/MustafaVKoc.aspx) is the chairman of Koc Holding (http://www.koc.com.tr/).
Pronounced Koch - ch as in church. Should have a cedilla.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Moleman76 on 29 May, 2023, 05:15:45 am
Nearby porta-potty / portaloo company is named "Wizards of Ooze"

A local prognosticator of construction activity was known for driving past the storage yards for several of these firms.  If the yard was empty, a good sign.  If lots of units present, it meant that building work was slow.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: MattH on 29 May, 2023, 06:50:12 pm
Not particularly badly named, but a portaloo hire company I see regularly round here is called Tardis - obviously because of the ubiquitous blue box. Which, if you're not aware, in some circles is known affectionately(?) as the Turdis.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 30 May, 2023, 09:04:51 am
You can get some which are actually done up to look like a Dr Who tardis.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: diapsaon0 on 30 May, 2023, 05:27:59 pm
The bus company in Weston-suoer-Mud is called Badgerline.  Nicknamed Basherline because of their affinity for parked cars.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: T42 on 31 May, 2023, 09:40:09 am
(https://pbase.com/johnewing/image/173658817.jpg)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Jaded on 31 May, 2023, 09:45:34 am
Was that next to the teabags?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Hot Flatus on 31 May, 2023, 09:53:05 am
 ;D
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: T42 on 31 May, 2023, 10:08:18 am
ISWYM.  "Heimlich manoeuvre on Aisle 6, please."
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 04 July, 2023, 06:07:49 am
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66094072

Zuckerbot's Twitter rival is to be called Threads.  Presumably because it will be utterly depressing and populated by sick, desperate people.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: TheLurker on 04 July, 2023, 12:52:49 pm
Quote from: diapsaon0
The bus company in Weston-suoer-Mud is called Badgerline.  Nicknamed Basherline because of their affinity for parked cars.
Gosh, I'd forgotten all about them.  Are the smaller buses still called "Skunk* Trucks" or is that only one us wrinklies remember?


*In the late 80s/early 90s they used to have a stylised badger painted along the sides.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 19 July, 2023, 08:14:20 am
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/23660412.melinda-messenger-opening-new-jollyes-shop-swindon/#comments-anchor

"The Jolly Groomer".  Right up there with The Swan and Paedo.

Also, Swindon's former tit model is an anti-vaxxer, hence the other amusing comment under the story.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: hellymedic on 19 July, 2023, 05:14:41 pm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66094072

Zuckerbot's Twitter rival is to be called Threads.  Presumably because it will be utterly depressing and populated by sick, desperate people.

Zuckerbabe is probably to young to have been influenced by the film of that name...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Jaded on 19 July, 2023, 05:50:35 pm
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/23660412.melinda-messenger-opening-new-jollyes-shop-swindon/#comments-anchor

"The Jolly Groomer".  Right up there with The Swan and Paedo.

Also, Swindon's former tit model is an anti-vaxxer, hence the other amusing comment under the story.

I saw the photo and thought she hadn’t worn that well. Then noted the caption said it was of Tanya Paterson, the Jolly Groomer manager.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 28 July, 2023, 01:51:00 pm
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05749050/filing-history

Appears to have been a joke setup with no actual individuals as directors.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: robgul on 28 July, 2023, 04:22:22 pm
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05749050/filing-history

Appears to have been a joke setup with no actual individuals as directors.

It was possibly one of Wogan's TOGs - Hugh Jampton ?
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Giraffe on 28 July, 2023, 05:47:45 pm
Not bad as such: chap in the village comes home in the company's van. The co. is "Factotum" - no other clues. I wondered about asking him what he does but I suspect that he'd go on and on and on...
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 August, 2023, 02:45:17 pm
In 1940, the Irish government was worried that its neutrality was being endangered by several Dublin businesses getting up collections from their employees for "Spitfire funds" and other funds to buy armaments for British forces. One of these firms was the Swastika Laundry Company.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 03 August, 2023, 10:10:16 am
In 1940, the Irish government was worried that its neutrality was being endangered by several Dublin businesses getting up collections from their employees for "Spitfire funds" and other funds to buy armaments for British forces. One of these firms was the Swastika Laundry Company.
Great on nazi stains, but it's safer to take your czechs elsewhere.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 12 August, 2023, 06:57:41 am
https://thaitanicbelfast.co.uk/?utm_source=GMBwebsite&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=Google%20My%20Business
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Efrogwr on 12 August, 2023, 12:09:48 pm
https://thaitanicbelfast.co.uk/?utm_source=GMBwebsite&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=Google%20My%20Business


I bet that goes down a treat.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Snakehips on 12 August, 2023, 12:19:25 pm
There's a window cleaner somewhere called Mr. Bit   This may have appeared before in the thread but ICBA to read through it all.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Jurek on 12 August, 2023, 01:53:45 pm
There's a printer called Bigger Stickers. (That may also have appeared here before)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: robgul on 12 August, 2023, 02:31:40 pm
https://thaitanicbelfast.co.uk/?utm_source=GMBwebsite&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=Google%20My%20Business

Steer clear of the iceberg lettuce . . .
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Giraffe on 12 August, 2023, 04:47:39 pm
https://thaitanicbelfast.co.uk/?utm_source=GMBwebsite&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=Google%20My%20Business

Steer clear of the iceberg lettuce . . .
Nah - just go with the floe.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: T42 on 15 August, 2023, 10:48:16 am
(https://pbase.com/image/173895293.jpg)

They're building a new grandstand/gym/tiddlywinks stadium at the footie ground in the next village.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: L CC on 15 August, 2023, 11:53:30 am
There's a window cleaner somewhere called Mr. Bit   This may have appeared before in the thread but ICBA to read through it all.
A Mr Bit cleans my mum's windows in North Northumberland.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Giraffe on 03 October, 2023, 05:17:05 pm
In Nor Fampton, Smear Cosmetics.
Thoughts please!
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: T42 on 25 October, 2023, 10:17:40 am
Just been watching a BFO safe being lifted out of our old branch post office and personhandled into a white van. Judging from the battlements and the knight in armour on the van doors it belongs to a security company. Not a very reassuring name, though: SUREAL.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 25 October, 2023, 10:31:13 am
Just been watching a BFO safe being lifted out of our old branch post office and personhandled into a white van. Judging from the battlements and the knight in armour on the van doors it belongs to a security company. Not a very reassuring name, though: SUREAL.
They're probably going to keep fish in it and win the Turner Prize.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: T42 on 25 October, 2023, 11:22:03 am
Just been watching a BFO safe being lifted out of our old branch post office and personhandled into a white van. Judging from the battlements and the knight in armour on the van doors it belongs to a security company. Not a very reassuring name, though: SUREAL.
They're probably going to keep fish in it and win the Turner Prize.

Do you know, I never thought of that.

Can see where the name comes from: sure + al for Alsace.  Not art mavens then.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Giraffe on 26 November, 2023, 06:15:55 pm
Not really a bad name as such: Roade Flooring (Roade is a village), but then "We go the extra mile".
There has to be a cartoon in that.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: mllePB on 27 November, 2023, 06:30:03 pm
Having a virtual visit to the Norfolk seaside village built on sand dunes which recently made the news again for its crumbling infrastructure, I found the 'When it's gone it's gone' shop on Beach Road

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.6955056,1.707058,3a,75y,251.25h,84.99t/data=!3m9!1e1!3m7!1sk0LJy8kI36leIEnF3Pq34g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!9m2!1b1!2i39?entry=ttu (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.6955056,1.707058,3a,75y,251.25h,84.99t/data=!3m9!1e1!3m7!1sk0LJy8kI36leIEnF3Pq34g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!9m2!1b1!2i39?entry=ttu)
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: Ham on 21 December, 2023, 11:51:33 am
Possibly a brilliant name, tbh.

We are returning from France before NY Eve, and we're stopping at this restaurant (https://www.hotel-dangleterre.fr/en/restaurants/), which I can't help reading as "Jerome, Feck L'Angleterre"
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: andrewc on 27 December, 2023, 09:58:33 pm
A nightclub called "Safehouse".....   https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-stabbing-latest-hotel-guests-28353327


I don't think I've been in a Liverpool nightclub since at least 2000,  I'm glad  I got out of the habit!    The dodgiest place I frequented was probably Freewheelers/Nightriders on Wood St in the 80's.  There were usually a few baseball bats on display behind the entry desk & a sign saying "No Colours".  I never saw any trouble from the bikers though, usually nice guys.
Title: Re: The badly-named businesses thread
Post by: rogerzilla on 28 December, 2023, 08:38:09 am
There's a business called Tracy's Little Stitches on Minge Lane (Upton-in-Severn).  Presumably useful after an episiotomy.