Hi,
Is there enough interest to start a thread on this topic?

To start, some of my favorites are:

Paddy O'Furniture  (Outdoor furniture and accessories)

MesmerEyes   ( Optical shop at Bellagio in Vegas )


Medium Well Done   ( Graphic Design/Advertising firm)


 

To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

Maybe. I know of one.

In Yreka California, Yreka Bakery

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Occam's Razor - All things being equal, the simplest solution is the right one.

Sometimes I feel the same:
Effin Computers ~ On Site Computer Repair, Connecticut

I knew pizza was good, but this good:
Pizza Orgasmica & Brewing Co ~ San Francisco, CA

Well, having lived in the south, "If you hit it, you spit it!":
Roadkill Cafe - Seligman, AZ
"You kill'em, we grill'em!"

No comment:
S&M Amusements, Inc. - Gray, TN

Ouch, and still paying for it:
pms® mortgage - UK/Ireland
 

Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
How to ask a question, when posting them to a professional forum.
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One company I worked for had a client company named: Erection Services.  Of course it was a construction company that did iron work, but it was still good for laugh, if not a good time.

 

oh was going to post the following:



I found it interesting when I saw it on the back of a German station-wagon (years ago)...

Ben
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Not so much the name as the slogan for this computer/technical consultancy:

Gizmo - "We've read the manuals!"

There was another good one for a driving school which I think I posted elsewhere on these forums... but can't remember it for the life of me...

Annihilannic.

Flea-N-Tique - Flea market and antique store.

James P. Cottingham
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My wife's, infants and toddlers resale shop...

Cherished Seconds

Skip,

_{Just traded in my old subtlety...
for a NUANCE!}

Among my favorites here locally:

Just Desserts -- a shop specializing in "afters".

Cool Beans -- shop specializing in iced coffees.

Ground Up -- regular coffee shop

Nacho Mama's -- Cheese on chips as a specialty

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]
"Beware of those that seek to protect you from harm or risk. The cost will be your freedoms and your liberty."

Oklahoma-based typesetting company:

OK Type -- "Oklahoma is OK, but the TYPE is excellent!"

Indian resturant in Shirley, Birmingham.
"The Shirley Temple"


Again, not the name but the slogan. Now seen it in a fish and chip shop, as well for a building company.

"You've tried the cowboys, now try the Indians"

Robert Wilensky:
We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

 

I remember the driving school now: Driveology

Annihilannic.

Prissy Hippy Beauty Shop I would have never associated "prissy" with "hippy" so I find this rather humorous.

James P. Cottingham
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A friend's been to an Indian restaurant in Birmingham called Balti Towers.

My favourite is the chip shop in Repton called Good Buy Mr Chips - there's a famous public school in the village where they filmed a TV version of the novel it alludes to

 

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd

Both excellent, Chris!

2ffat, that reminds me of one near us: Beauty's a Curse

Not really a business, but I think the name of this psy-trance DJ is great: Psychovsky

Annihilannic.

Hi,
Another optical shop:

InVision

(Must be the vision part that facilitates creativity - it would be harder for a butcher, for instance)

 

To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

My buddy's excavation service:

John, the Town Hoe

-------++NO CARRIER++-------
 

There's a hairdresser salon in Leeds, UK (and probably a fair few other places) called Curl Up And Dye

~LFCfan
Short stories, mainly in fantasy/SF settings.
Come along and tell me what you think of the worlds I build!

Bakery shoppe...

We Knead Your Dough

Sausage Shoppe...

Best Wurst

Antique Shoppe...

Den of Antiquity

 

Skip,

_{Just traded in my old subtlety...
for a NUANCE!}

Sandwich bar (fantastic) in Glasgow called Piece

which is Glasgow slang for Sandwich.

Guardian Review

It is time for pacifists to stand up and fight for their beliefs.

An oyster bar in the One Shell Square office building in New Orleans:

Half Shell Square

Not far from where I live, there is an alligator farm called the Insta-Gator Ranch & Hatchery.

-- Francis
Et cognoscetis veritatem, et veritas liberabit vos.

Name of a Vietnamese noodle shop:

Pho'nomenal

My wife tried to start a bakery business this summer with a friend of hers. They named it Two Old Ladies and an Oven.
 

James P. Cottingham
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My sister, Rebecca, had a iced-cinnamon-roll business named, Becca's Buns.

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]
"Beware of those that seek to protect you from harm or risk. The cost will be your freedoms and your liberty."

Here's a crude one:
Puke Framing, You Design It, We Throw It Up
I actually worked for the guy a couple of years.
We did good jobs mostly in Beverly Hills. $$$$$$$$$$$$!

"Impatience will reward you with dissatisfaction" RMS Cosmics'97

Here in Hull there's a small bakery store opened. The name of which is written in the exact style of a certain popular '80s film and is called:

Top Bun

Love it.


 

Fukuoka House of Pearls

has always made me chuckle...
 

Best Regards,
Scott

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, and no simpler."

A mobile caterers was something along the lines of "Debbies Big Baps" whose slogan was


Seeemed to be frequented by truckers and hairy bikers.

Good food though.

Robert Wilensky:
We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

 

Hi,
Mayslak's Butcher shop in Minnesota had this on its trucks:

 

To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

Turkbear: that's a common theme among butchers. Same thing in New Orleans with Wagner's Meat, only they gave out bumper stickers.

-- Francis
Et cognoscetis veritatem, et veritas liberabit vos.

Hi,
Thanks for the info..I guess no one would tell a butcher not to do that ( They know how to dismember )

 

To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

You see these bumper stickers on German trucks (lorries for the UK-English speakers) a lot:

Ben
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Then there's the guy telling people to come on down to The BBQ'r...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bdEx7fto_w

(NSFW)



 

Every radiator repair shop is. . .

-- Francis
Et cognoscetis veritatem, et veritas liberabit vos.

A specialty bakery in Scottsdale, AZ is called:

Nothing Bundt Cakes

And they do them very, very well...Yum

 

To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

I forgot about Big A** Fans. We use their Powerfoil fans in our mills. They look like upside-down helicopter fans. Take a gander at their logo, too.
 

James P. Cottingham
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Hi,
One more from a Vegas jewelry store:

  BeJeweled

To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

A road side bait store on the way to a conservation area.

The Master Baitor

"Head Gardener" for a hair dressers where I live!

I like work.  It fascinates me.  I can sit and look at it for hours...

Sun of a Beach tanning salon.

Thanks,
Andrew

Hard work often pays off over time, but procrastination pays off right now!

James,

Cool looking fans !

Quote (James):

They look like upside-down helicopter fans.

If your post appeared in any other forum, we'd have to let this slide. But since it is here in the linguistically illustrious Making an Impression forum, I believe that we must draw a distinction between:

They look like upside-down helicopter fans. -- meaning, "fans for upside-down helicopters",

versus what I believe is your intention:

They look like upside-down-helicopter fans. -- meaning, "the fans have the appearance of an upside-down helicopter".

Am I correct?

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]
"Beware of those that seek to protect you from harm or risk. The cost will be your freedoms and your liberty."

You know, I've never seen an upside-down helicopter but I believe the orientation of an upside-down-helicopter fan would be the same as a fan for an upside-down helicopter. I get your meaning, though.

James P. Cottingham
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<Totally off into the weeds>

Quote (James):

I've never seen an upside-down helicopter ...

Let's resolve that omission from your life by clicking this link.

</Totally off into the weeds>

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]
"Beware of those that seek to protect you from harm or risk. The cost will be your freedoms and your liberty."

Cool! I had always been told that was impossible and the helicopter loses upward thrust in that position and the blades tend to flex uncontrollably. Of course, that was back in the 70's.

James P. Cottingham
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Radio control helicopters can do some insane aerobatics that no "real" helicopter could do. Inverted flight is pretty common. The blades can be given both a positive and negative angle of attack, so it can produce thrust both up and down in relationship to the heli.

Here's a good example of what they can do...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi7G-VzU2r4




 

SantaMufasa
I read your post way too fast ........ I'd got you

"Totally off it on weed"

thought you'd done the DIY meds route

 

<Do I need A Signature or will an X do?>

But why on earth (or in the sky for that matter) would you want a fan in a helicopter - upside down OR right side up???

p5

Quote (p5wizard):

But why on earth (or in the sky for that matter) would you want a fan in a helicopter - upside down OR right side up???

I'm a big helicopter fan! I get in them as often as I can.


 

Sam,

I hope you are not the rotary type...

Ben
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How to ask a question, when posting them to a professional forum.
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Sam, not that kind of fan, an AMD type fan...

p5

Kiss of Ink Tattoos and a few feet away Tattoo Removal

Not really a business but a political sign. In Virginia, we have a Robert Hurt running for congress. His signs can be inferred as a political statement as much as anything else: HURT U.S. Congress.
 

James P. Cottingham
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Hi,
A fabric and notions shop:

Sew and Sew

To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

The laudry service where my folks live (which is a small seaside town) is called Bay Wash.

Fee

"The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea." Isak Dinesen

Quote:

Bay Wash

with a sign...

No Hassle Off!



 

Skip,

_{Just traded in my old subtlety...
for a NUANCE!}

How about Macbeth Dry Cleaners - "Out, damned Spot!"

-- Francis
Et cognoscetis veritatem, et veritas liberabit vos.

Too much toil & trouble!

Skip,

_{Just traded in my old subtlety...
for a NUANCE!}

I always thought it a stroke of marketing genius for Specsavers opticians to sponsor the Scottish Premier Football League, given fans' propensity to hurl imprecations suggesting the referee's eyesight might not be exactly 20/20.

The internet - allowing those who don't know what they're talking about to have their say.

Thought i'd add one.

Don't forget the "Well hung" Meat Company in devon, UK

Body Suit Alterations... a physical trainer.

Annihilannic.

Two brothers (with excellent senses of humor) here in the Salt Lake City area, both went to medical school. One became a psychiatrist, the other a proctologist.

They went into practice together and wanted to come up with a clever slogan for their "shingle". They ran a little contest for people to make motto suggestions. The top finishers:

3rd Place: Nuts and Butts
2nd Place: Heads and Tails
1st Place: Odds and Ends
 

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]
"Beware of those that seek to protect you from harm or risk. The cost will be your freedoms and your liberty."

There used to be an art gallery near Gray's Inn Rd called "Gallery Singleton". Whether the owner was called Singleton or not I don't know.

I guess this won't mean much to the young'uns (god - how old do I sound!) or those who don't know the presenters of Blue Peter (including Valerie Singleton).

Dan

 

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The Out Atheism Campaign
 

Hi,
Gosh, I always thought that was a STD

To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

Santa, so they have the ideal practice for anal retentive cases, whatever the cause may be for any given patient...


p5

Maaaaaaaaaaaany years ago when I was teen I had to get my hair cut at the UFO Hairport in Duncanville, TX.  It was pretty spacey.

Quote (Cool Hand Luke):

"Dyin'? Boy, He can have this little life any time He wants to. Do Ya hear that? Are ya hearin' it? Come on. You're welcome to it, Ol' Timer. Let me know You're up there. Come on. Love me, hate me, kill me, anything. Just let me know it... I'm just standin' in the rain talkin' to myself."

Saw this near Charleston, West Virginia: Not My Junque.
 

James P. Cottingham
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There used to be a movie theatre in Metaire, Louisiana, called the Sena Mall (despite not being near any shopping mall, however, it was one block from Sena Drive:

-- Francis
Et cognoscetis veritatem, et veritas liberabit vos.

I'm still not certain if this is the name of the place or just a saying on a large sign in front of it: God Loves A Smiling Face. It's an orthodontist's office.

James P. Cottingham
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EX-STINK - sewage and drainage company

   
Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

There's also the UCM Museum (pronounced you see 'em).

-- Francis
Et cognoscetis veritatem, et veritas liberabit vos.

I live in a city surrounded by farm land. There is a septic waste hauler named "The Pooper Scooper". Their trucks carry the motto: "You Dump, We Pump".

 

[off-topic]We always called septic waste haulers, Honey Wagons because "you always catch more flies with honey than vinegar."[/off-topic].
 

James P. Cottingham
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A friend calls his:  "Harrington Information Management"

He liked the idea of the client saying, "This is screwed up.  We need to call HIM.  Does anyone have HIM's number?"

GS

******^*******
 I Hate ♥ Ambiguity.

Quote:

Does anyone have HIM's number?

011-39-06-698-8xxxx
    

 

Ben
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How to ask a question, when posting them to a professional forum.
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I saw a clothes shop in Thailand called Bai Porn

ACSS - SME

Ben,

That's for Him, not H.I.M.  

GS

******^*******
 I Hate ♥ Ambiguity.

GS,

ooopss.. my bad...

Ben
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A couple more:

InnuWindow - a window treatments store.

LaundroMutt - a dog-washing facility in Cambridge, MA

-LB

I also have a dog wash in my area. It's really a dog wash, a car wash, and a laundromat in one.

The name is U.R. Washin' Stuff

(a take-off of H.R. Puffinstuff).

in Tucson, there used to be a store (don't know if it still exists) called "Puff-n-Stuff", they carried:

the stuff: Comic books, Hack-n-Slay gamer gear

the puff: paraphernalia (bongs, pipes, papers, etc.)

 

Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
How to ask a question, when posting them to a professional forum.
Only ask questions with yes/no answers if you want "yes" or "no"

"House of Balscheit"
- Secondhand Furniture & Homewares (the expensive type) in St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia.

I think flyboytim's company name belongs in this thread...

Annihilannic.

Suffolk and Watt - UK book publisher