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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 01:39 PM
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Company names that make you go Huh
A local exercise equipment company apparently never spoke the name aloud before choosing it. I found out about them 'cause the owner (presumably) was so proud of it that he got a vanity tag with the name on it:
http://www.sorinex.com/
I got a million of 'em, but most slip my mind immediately after I see them. You?
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Gato Moteado Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 01:42 PM
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1. sore necks!!!! great one.....
how about Lack's furniture. that one always puzzled me.
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calico1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 01:42 PM
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2. Vibrascrew.
When I worked in Accounts Payable there was actually a company with that name. Guess no one ever said the name out loud to see how it sounded.
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 02:26 PM
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11. Would be a kickass band name, though :)
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judge_smales Donating Member (752 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 01:45 PM
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3. Kum & Go


It's a regional convinience store chain, but somehow I never think of chips or soda when I see the sign.
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Zero Division Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 03:20 AM
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23. Ah the Kum & Go, they really started uhh...popping up in Iowa City
in the last few years. One of my friends used to refer to it as the "Jizz and Split". Very appropriate for a college town.
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lilymidnite Donating Member (330 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 01:48 PM
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4. Sugarfree candy called 'Go-Lightly'
If anyone's ever had to have a certain colon procedure, they may remember another product called Go-Lightly in not so fond terms.
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 01:52 PM
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5. This one.

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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 01:56 PM
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6. My mother was taking a prescription med called Diacide
It made her collapse to her knees and be unable to get up, among other weird side effects.

It really did kill her day.
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Squeech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 02:01 PM
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7. Once upon a time
Mrs. Squeech worked for a company that did trademark research-- looked up names and titles to see whether anybody else was using it before trying to register it as a trademark or service mark.

One of her assignments was to work on the in-flight magazine of an airline that was the product of a merger between two old airlines. And one of the names that was suggested for the magazine was a cross between the two names of the two old magazines, Enterprise and Contrails.

So there she was, looking up business uses for the name Entrails.

The benefits of a liberal arts education.
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Elidor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 06:27 AM
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24. ROFLMAO!!!
I can't stop laughing. ENTRAILS!
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 02:04 PM
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8. Local company---Odus Realty
I always read it as Odious
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pdx_prog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 02:06 PM
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9. There used to be a Ford dealership..
in New Orleans called Dick Bohn Ford.....
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On the Road Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 02:08 PM
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10. "Sterile Concepts" Along I-95 Near Petersburg, VA
Great philosophers' joke. (A sterile concept is an idea that doesn't lead anywhere, like solipsism.)

And Jay Leno showed a photo of a small motel a few years a go that was called the "Passing Wind Motel." (I get the idea, but at least call it the "Passing Breeze" or something. Geez.)
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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 02:28 PM
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12. There's an Italina Washing maching company called Smeg.
One for the Red Dwarf fans.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 02:45 PM
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13. I can think of two: Kok Funeral Home and Schwing
Schwing is a manufacturing company, not the bicycle company (Schwinn)
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 02:48 PM
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14. Accenture
:wtf: is an accenture?
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 04:05 PM
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19. Or any other "we'll coin a word so we can TM the name" starting with Exxon
through Verizon, Lucent, etc. etc. etc. Oh God, there's an answer to your Accenture question: Accent on the Future http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_company_name_etymologies
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 02:48 PM
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15. In my wife's hometown, there's a "Graves Funeral Home" (n/t)
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GiovanniC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 02:49 PM
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16. We Have a Real Estate Company In Our Town Called "Exit"
They seem to only sell homes in our town of Jackson.

Which makes their name a very counterproductive imperative:

Exit Jackson.
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 02:50 PM
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17. Dr. Pucker, proctologist.
Dr. Squint, urologist
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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 08:59 AM
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26. well, if you want bad dr names (aptonyms)
I used to know a Richard Tapper, Urologist. (it'll come to you)

and many people in Northern Virginia have the name of the OB'GYN who delivered them on their Birth Certificate. That gentleman's name? Harry Beaver.

really, he didn't go by harold, or hank, but harry.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 03:15 PM
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18. Ham Produce and Seafood
you see their trucks all over Honolulu.

Makes you want to bring Letterman out here:

Dave: "Do you have any beef?"

driver: "No, just ham, produce and seafood."

Dave: "How about chicken? Have you got any chicken?"
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 01:42 AM
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20. One for the insomniacs n/t
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 02:03 AM
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21. People's Natural Gas
I remember it on Main Street in Decorah Iowa when I was in high school
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 02:06 AM
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22. Seattle's T&A Supply Co.
On Westlake Ave. N. :7
I just drove by there today, in fact.
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 08:46 AM
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25. We had S&M Supply
Edited on Fri Oct-01-04 08:47 AM by undisclosedlocation
It subsequently became a bar. Incredibly, they changed the name.
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