Unfortunate business names

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.

There used to be an Asian food shop in Stafford called Chinese Supplies.
I always expected to go in, find it empty then have a Chinaman jump out shouting “supplies!”

Oh, and Powergen’s Italian subsidiary, Powergenitalia, made you look twice.

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:

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/jim-ll-mix-name-change-17343472

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

I was genuinely surprised to see this pop up on LinkedIn recently

https://www.mongodb.com/

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

Simon Black Painting in Lincolnshire.
I’m not sure how much business there is just doing black stuff?

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…

https://www.de-athbros.com/

And my wife was at network meeting and met a chap from…

https://peststopboys.co.uk/

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Thanks! That’s been frustrating me for ages.

20 odd years ago, one of my mate’s family friends ran a business called CJD which was taken over to form STD. This was, of course, back in the days of mad cow disease.

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:

https://cdn1.boltonwanderers.news/uploads/12/2023/06/Screenshot-4467-1024×527.png

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.

SS Cars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Cars#/media/File:SScarsbadge.png

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.