The badly-named businesses thread

[Bledlow]

Mustafa Koc is the chairman of Koc Holding.

Pronounced Koch - ch as in church.

BTW, it's Koç, not Koc. It'd be pronounced Koj (j as in jam) without the cedilla.

[Cudzoziemiec]

http://www.snickersworkwear.pl/

[hellymedic]

The Speedwell Driving School
http://www.speedwelldrivingschool.com

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For anoraks:
In days of yore, before London had all-figure numbers (maybe 1968 or thereabouts) Golders Green exchanges were named SPEeedwell and MEAdway. These became 455 and 458 respectively.
http://www.rhaworth.myby.co.uk/phreak/tenp_01.htm

[Cudzoziemiec]

FUD
http://www.fud.com.pl/

They make lifts, cranes and so on...

[Trull]

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

[HTFB]

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.

[Biff]

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.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Print your own arse.
http://arsuprint.pl/

(completely safe  )

[numbnuts]

Dunwalkin Driving School
http://www.dunwalkin.com/

[Cudzoziemiec]

This is where Flatus buys his baby's clothes.
http://fartlandia.pl/

[Cudzoziemiec]

There are so many ways to misinterpret this one.
http://www.beatit.pl/en/

[Mr Larrington]

I passed a truck this morning belonging to an outfit called Lezzer Lumber...

[rogerzilla]

It's not the name, it's the deliberately naughty tagline.

http://www.ckscaffolds.com/

[Giraffe]

I saw a gymn t'other day -t'was called "Fit for Less". OK.

[Furious]

http://www.penisland.net/

 

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?

[Mr Larrington]

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.



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[Giraffe]

In Wolverton:

Boyz ll Men

It's a barber - so well in to grooming, then.

[Biff]

'Schindler's Lifts'?

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

[Kim]

'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.

[rogerzilla]

And the book was Schindler's Ark anyway.

[Biff]

[hellymedic]

'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.

[meddyg]

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

[hellymedic]

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.

[rogerzilla]

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.