Unfortunate business names

Another Northampton one, Butt Savouries.

Just down the hill from where I used to work is a cleaning supplies company.

They used to be called Willy Wiper https://www.willywiper.co.uk/

Great back story as they were a Prince’s Trust launch

Solicitors in Settle, Goad and Butcher.

I used to drive past an estate agents in Victoria, Aus, called Robin Daley

I asked chatgpt to generate some names for my business based on the first letter of my children’s names. It’s best effort was Razzle Labs. Oh how we laughed.

Financial advisor in Sheffield, Nick Leeson.

There was a plumbing business that’s since gone under, and their website was:

http://www.ukgasheating.co.uk

that’s since gone under

Presumably, before it went under, it was going down.

Therapist.com always makes me laugh. Guess they get 2 types of visitors

I’d be more worried about psychotherapist.com I think

Used to be a dentist in Eglinton toll in Glasgow called Andrew.P. Gummers.

**** HING COFFIN & CASKET SHOP – Kuala Lumpur

Took a photo of the shop front when I was on holiday there, but it’s on 35mm film so I’d have to do some digging to find it

Also have a photo of this place in the USA somewhere on my phone, but can’t seem to find it. Another one lost in translation

https://www.dickliquor.com/s/shop

Nothing unfortunate or accidental about it but I do like Solent Green – landscape gardner (I think) in Southampton

We’ve got a firm of solicitors in my ends called Wright Hassall.

Just north of Cardiff:

A very old-world style of printers, ancient machines with old inks all over them.

regularly drive past a couple of Point of Sale equipment vendors/installers…[snigger]some things you shouldn’t abbreviate[/snigger]

It’s not a company but Susan Album Party will never be defeated

#susanalbumparty

I used to work in the offshore wind sector a few years ago and the biggest player was called DONG Energy

There was much fun and sniggering to be had pulling the leg of colleagues who worked there until they rebranded to Orsted. I’d like to think I played a role in moving their brand forward

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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.

There was someone in our (massive) company internal phone directory from years ago that I never met, nor have a clue what she was like, first name Regina, second name Hairie. Of course the phone book has it the other was round.

American names were great. Our CFO was called Randall but everyone including himself called him Randy. One day we were hosting the bigwigs at a meeting at our European HQ and an urgent call came in for him. The admin there at the time was drop dead gorgeous, absolute ringer for the exec admin you’d expect in the 90’s, a lovely girl as well, but dear god as thick as mince. She asked me (I wasn’t in the meeting, just hovering for the lunchtime meet and greet) and she asked me if she should go in and interrupt. I said they were due to break any minute and just to deliver the message then.

A minute or two the door opens, the bigwigs come out, she rises from her desk and totters over in pornstar heels and tight skirt, all lips and teeth and hair and delivers the killer line ‘excuse me, are any of you Randy?’

With a capital R, only one but if that was meant in lower case, I reckon she’d have had 9 takers….. meanwhile we lab monkeys there for a spot of lunch prior to the lab tours nearly gave ourselves hernias trying to stifle the giggles.

When I was at school we used to get our school dinners delivered by a delightfully spooneristically named company named Booker Fitch. You can imagine the giggles among my teenage brethren!

@scammell I was literally about to post the same lol. We chortled a lot about that one

T. Watts skip hire was (is still) a company in Leicester.

Always got a chuckle as they were obviously quite a big outfit and there were always loads of skips with the company name on them.

Edit: Tried posting a photo but it’s still not working…

Used to be a dentist in Eglinton toll in Glasgow called Andrew.P. Gummers.

The ice cream van which used to come the village where I grew up was owned by Mr Frost. The dentist who lived in the next village was Mr Payne.

Chain of stores here called “Total Tools”.

Don’t know what they sell though. They must be eejuts.

The Glasgow company Sofa King just possibly may be aware of how their name lands phonetically.

There are a few of these around, including one local to us:

Tiler Swift.

Quite deliberate I suspect!

3 pages and no mention of the South West’s favourite prestige car brand dealer?

https://www.dicklovett.co.uk/

Was passing through Berlin and managed to find this gem.

Three I’ve seen recently on a trip to Germany

Startseite

https://koch-technik.com/en/

https://www.sparkasse.de/

Seen this shop in Innsbruck a few years ago….

edit still can’t upload a photo on here 

There’s a local to me doormat supplier that’s called Matman – he (Matt?) drives around in a black Transit painted up with Batman livery (but with Matman written on it). I like to think he specifically chose this line of work just so he could do that.

Lots of shops around here offering ‘pain’

I used to work in the offshore wind sector a few years ago and the biggest player was called DONG Energy

Should owned it and rebranded as Big Dong Energy then.

Not just a business name either, the guy’s name is Eduard W

My daughter spotted this scaffolding van at Penrith. They are having fun with the strap line

Canine hairdresser in Sedbergh…

https://maps.app.goo.gl/nXo5ics1DP4RbJWz5?g_st=ic

I saw a spoof (i assume) logo for a scaffold company on the side of a Transit van

Mike Hunt Scaffolding
“Get Mike Hunt on your Erection”