Unfortunate business names

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.

https://www.bender-uk.com/

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.

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Rode past a dog grooming place today called ‘Wash my Woof’. Might just be me but I thought it was quite an amusing name, bordering on inappropriate.

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So do I!
Installing a new fire alarm system

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Despite seeing their shops for many years living in Hong Kong, the fashion chain Wanko never failed to raise a smile. Surely somebody must have told them at least once?!

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

I remain disappointed that this place has not one singlet rack, let alone a whole world of them!

And no one to sing le track…

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.