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I did a double take earlier, half listening to a piece on Radio 4 about ice cream that was on in the background. Some stuff about the science of ice cream manufacture yada, yada with an interviewer talking to a lady who makes the stuff. I swear unless I misheard it, that the interviewer said the lady's business was called "happy endings ice cream". Not for me thanks chef. I couldn't decide whether she'd told the BBC that for a bet or or she was genuine and hadn't quite thought it through.
What ill-advised business names have you clocked?
I've just Googled it, seems legit and a fair sized concern! I live in rural Shropshire and don't get out much. That's my excuse.
I always smiled after desending the Cat and Fiddle pass into Macclesfield. If you looked through the railway abridge there used to be a shop called S&M Supplies.
Got a contractor outfit on site at the mo called scutum
50% sputum
50% scrotum
Why?!
Baffled of south Cumbria
I always smiled after desending the Cat and Fiddle pass into Macclesfield. If you looked through the railway abridge there used to be a shop called S&M Supplies.
Which was, hilariously, a hardware shop, and usually had quite a good display of chains, ropes, hammers etc in the window 🙂
Swiss flash memory manufacturer Swissbit registered both Swissbit.com and swissbit.ch in their home country. Sadly the latter has since been dropped. Somewhat reminiscent of the amusement derived from the website for Pen Island…
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I wonder if Happy Endings make Cream of Cornish ice cream ?
Why?!
It's latin for 'shield' - see also, AquaScutum coats.
Been going past this for years and it still makes me chuckle.
Thestabiliser
So do I!
Installing a new fire alarm system
Forgot another one - driving into wales passing
"Pant Accident Repair Centre"
Which never fails to make me chuckle.
Sadly S&M Supplies is no more. Used to make me chuckle every day because I am a child.
ISIS Pharmaceuticals had to rename to IONIS.
The fact that Siemens have offices in Staines always tickled me
Idk if true or not but I've heard Kona is a swear word in Portuguese
The fact that Siemens have offices in Staines always tickled me
Do Smeg have an office next door?
But the one for me has always been Aquascrotum, I mean Aquascutum.
Idk if true or not but I’ve heard Kona is a swear word in Portuguese
Cona is the rude word for a lady's front bottom. I think the misspelling makes it as amusing there as **** is here.
Also, why does this morning's upgrade appear to have removed the quote thing?
[MOD] Edited to remove swear filter avoidance
Somewhat reminiscent of the amusement derived from the website for Pen Island…
Looking at their logo, something tells me they're well aware of this!
My mate worked for a company called UKIP, they used to get lots of hate mail. They took ages to change the name, which predated the political shamble by decades.
Ibis the bike company means bin chicken in some country.
Any company beginning with "cap" invites things like Crapita.
Been going past this for years and it still makes me chuckle
[MOD] Edited to remove swear filter avoidance
I was actually trying to write the abbreviation of French Connection UK, as seen on their t shirts, rather than avoiding a swear word?
[MOD] which is banned by the swear filter, which you were avoiding. Other misspellings of swear words are also banned.
There was, some time ago, a BMW dealership between Boroughbridge and Knaresborough in North Yorkshire called G. Eric Hunt. It always baffled me why they didn't call the business Gary (or whatever the G was initial for) E. Hunt.
^^^TBF, you can buy teeshirts and hats and stuff with the 'mis-spelling' from French Connection (and they put it in a bag with the same mis-spelling) and have been able to do so for years. Somewhat an over-reaction I think.
Somewhat reminiscent of the amusement derived from the website for Pen Island…
There's a lot of those, some more self-aware than others. In its early days, the domain for Experts Exchange didn't have a hyphen in the middle. Who Represents is another that jumps to mind.
Therapist.com always makes me laugh. Guess they get 2 types of visitors
Cona is the rude word for a lady’s front bottom.
I was told that the word for an ice cream cone was the same, but with a tilde over the n, and that there were billboards advertising ice cream with the slogan (in Portugese) 'The biggest cone in the world' that fell victim to some slight modification. (No idea if it's true).
Anyway, to go with the 'Pant Accident Repair Centre' I can offer:
A couple on the main theme:
Air conditioning(?) manufacturer in Turkey:
Seen near me:
Anyway, to go with the ‘Pant Accident Repair Centre’ I can offer:
I've eaten out in Pant.
A place called the Cross Keys as I recall.
Penisland,
Specialising in wood, LOL
@tillydog - yep, coincidentally I saw one of their (BJS) trucks as I was going down the M6 through the Wednesbury area just this morning.
There is also Breakwells Glass, suppliers of architectural glazing 'systems' from Wolvo, whose vehicles always make me smile. Not in the slightest bit rude or suggestive, obviously, but slightly ironic.
I enjoyed a hot dog in Mianus when I was in the states.
There is a grotty looking snack van in Avonmouth called D&V Catering. Never fancied it to be honest.
There's a Muff Diving Club.
In Muff, Ireland.
The village of Skelmanthorpe, near Huddersfield, is known locally as Shat.
There are both Shat Travel (travel agent) and Shat taxis (minicabs) in the village.
Ibis the bike company means bin chicken in some country.
In Australia Bin Chicken is the nickname for the bird because they're always scavenging from bins.
A mate worked for a company in Edinburgh called Pump Action, sadly he's not a porn actor!
The logo for said company is a dolphin squirting fluid from it's blow hole.
"Jim'll Mix It" used to be common around London, they owned 40 lorries. A swift bit of rebranding was in order:
S.T.D. Bed & Carpet Superstore in Brierley Hill used to always get a laugh from us teenagers when we went past on the bus.
They've moved with the times though and are now just selling S.T.D. carpets.
There used to be a solicitors in Kidderminster called Dolittle & Dally, dunno if they're still going.
I have but two:
An arborist just around the corner called Steve Slaughter. Unfortunately way he has sign written his van - reads Steve Tree Slaughter Services.
Another one I have seen around the place is Meh engineering. I guess they are not very good.
Legal issues are always a…
https://www.wrighthassall.co.uk
In fairness to them, they do sponsor a great 10k race in Leamington Spa.
Not sure if they are still going /have the same name, but I’ve dealt with a law firm, Careless & Co
Would you get your air conditioning serviced by Munters?
They have a guy called Ed Dinga that works for them apparently.
At this point i must confess to having contributed to a spreadsheet of Silly Names developed ~20 years ago with a network of friends.
The Silly Names League consisted of tabs for people, companies, jobsworths and a scoring system based on how silly the names were and the quality of the evidence.
A certain Turkish Orthopod had a pretty high score. Apologies if this is against the filter, but Mustafa Kunt genuinely exists. https://www.memorial.com.tr/en/doctors/mustafa-kunt
There used to be a solicitors in Kidderminster called Dolittle & Dally, dunno if they’re still going.
Yup - Doolittle & Dalley are indeed still in business (estate agent, truth be told)
Worked with a guy whose surname was Mount. His wife bought a florists called Bettys or something. We constantly kept suggesting a name change to Mount the Florist.
When the smoothie craze was at it's height there was a shop called Love Juice in the Milton Keynes shopping centre for a while. I never tried one...
Wayne Kerr Electronics in Bognor
Ah, so I got the spelling *and* the industry wrong? Shame on me. Glad to hear they're still going though
#edit - is there a tutorial on here for quoting, adding photos and suchlike? I remember a time when there were clicky buttons by this text box. Good times.
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The manager of the Aiguille Percee hotel in Tignes when it was a Mark Warner place was a lad called Wayne Kerr.
There's a massive legal firm in the Leamington area called Wright Hassell.
Edit: dammit! Didn't realise there was a p2! Sorry...
More deliberate than unfortunate, the shop in Knockin... https://www.theukhighstreet.com/store/0/289439/
I really hope that his parents didn't give him his full first name... https://www.nicktart.com/
Theres someone knocking out 3D printed tat on one of the VW facebook pages I'm on who goes by the name ASS Designs.
Needs some concrete? come to the Death Bros...
And my wife was at network meeting and met a chap from...
reeksy
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Thanks! That's been frustrating me for ages.
ISIS Pharmaceuticals had to rename to IONIS[\quote]FloodModeller is a widely used flood modelling software. Formerly ISIS.
To compound matters one of the data file types required was a...
.ied
So it was quite feasible to google "how to import an ISIS ied"
There was a third thing that linked it but i forgot what it was
Some of these are definitely in #theyknew territory IMO
Sorry if I missed a mention of this:
OK, that was supposed to be a pic of Bolton Wanderers' Toughsheet Stadium - but new forum.
Butterfingers Removals Ltd. If it doesn't exist, it should.
A furniture shop that used to be in Northampton (maybe still is) was called Sofa King.
Their tagline was 'Our prices are Sofa King low', I think they were forced to change it though.
Another furniture shop somewhere was called 'Shack of Sit'. It's even hard to say correctly!
There was also an image doing the rounds years ago of a vehicle aircon company called Stiff Nipples. Might've been in Australia iirc.
There’s a Muff Diving Club.
In Muff, Ireland.
Our aged aunt named her dog Muff, the amount of innuendo at family gatherings was very childish but hugely entertaining.
Neighbouring business were Wayne Kerr - right bunch they were.
ISIS window cleaners for tall buildings, looks like they've renamed to IS-IS now.
Walked round a corner a couple of years ago, there's a couple of ropes strewn on the pavement and dangling down, and a fold out sign with ISIS branding saying men working overhead.
There is a firm of Cathedral Cleaners just round the corner, though the cathedral is on the other side of town
Gilbert and Rose Estate Agents sponsored the new West Stand at Southend United.
The local company called D P Decorating always me smirk. It shouldn't but I got stuck at 14... ?
As a teen we were driving through Moreton In Marsh where there was a billboard for the Spook Erection Company. I asked out loud if that was how they put the willies up people. My mother was a terrible prude and let her displeasure be known. Dad’s shoulders gave him away for several miles.