Companies with stupid names

[jrd617]

Originally Posted by MJRRR

Slocum

I believe that's a rather unfortunate surname:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS_General_Slocum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Warner_Slocum

 

[Mr. White]

..

 

[kruze]

Penetrode

 

[Big T]

Originally Posted by epb

That one's pretty clever, actually. There's a roach coach that works construction sites I've seen occasionally named TANSTAAFL, which as far as I know is Helinlein-speak for "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch."

Have a friend who has a bar locally. Always packed to the gills with people, in spite of it being freezing cold. One day I asked him why don't you raise the air temp. level. He smiled and said look at the bar maids.

 

[zanma]

conveniently located next to...

 

[acidboy]

there's this hair and make-up place here that's named "cut & face"

 

[tagutcow]

 

[pvrhye]

Never in that order.

 

[patrickBOOTH]

Dodge

 

[pvrhye]

Originally Posted by patrickBOOTH

Dodge

That's just a warning to oncoming traffic. If that oversized truck hits you, no amount of airbag is gonna help. If you can't understand that, they put a ram with horns on the front to drive the point home visually.

 

[pebblegrain]

nobody beats the original

 

[Trompe le Monde]

When NIGerian national petroleum corp and GAZprom started a joint venture... you can guess what it was named...

 

[CouttsClient]

Originally Posted by Trompe le Monde

When NIGerian national petroleum corp and GAZprom started a joint venture... you can guess what it was named...

^

 

[gomestar]

I was involved (just a wee bit) in the acquisition of a part of the NY Stock Exchange (NYSE) by the Nat. Assn. of Securities Dealers (NASD). The running joke was a new company name of NYSE 'n NASD. It didn't pan out that way.

 

[Biggskip]

Does anybody remember when World Market used to be called Cost Plus? As I child I used to think that this meant that they had high prices, which I thought was a bad business model.