local businesses with horribly formed "names"

I find the "ME SO HUNGRY" food truck that circles nearby somewhat offensive.

ha, it reminds me of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zBXLhk7qJY

I admit to chuckling when I saw this yesterday. Not horribly formed but it seems to belong here.

https://rickspicks.com/assets/phat_beets_2011_large-552a66c753e4451d0082595daf273755.jpg

i'd be tempted to jam my forearm behind the row of them and just start swinging tbh

Photographed "A Salt & Battery" for this thread, sad to discover it was already posted long ago. That one makes me actively angry.

Perhaps this one will deflect your anger:

http://fishsip.com/images/fish-and-sip-brooklyn.jpg.jpg

That's bad, but "A Salt & Battery" is premised on the idea that visiting customers would find "assault and battery" a delightful pun rather than having a flashback experience to past experiences with violence. Also it's in New York which would suggest it's a pun on "the Battery" or Battery Park - which it's nowhere near. Like, you can't open a bookstore called Booklyn in Baltimore.

Yeah. I already mentioned the shipping/packaging store I saw called "Going Postal," right? cringe.

A dude I know who's a stand-up comedian has a bit about A Salt & Battery, where he asks "what the hell?" and then turns around and says he wants to open up an eatery of his own called "Statutory Crepe."

totally!

hooo boy

not a business, but it looks like I also forgot to mention this organic yogurt that was originally called "Cultural Revolution" but they luckily dropped that pun

not local, but I came across a corporation in a case recently that was called infoGROUP, like its name was actually written that way -- first four letters smallcase italic, last five all caps. It just looked really hilarious to see that in print over and over again, infoGROUP

There's a really trashy bar in Toronto called "Lolita's Lust" that's mostly just disturbing.

There's also a place called RAQ N WAQ which I can never look at without reading it as "Iraq war"

Raq N Waq is weird - I went into it for a friend's birthday once and it really thinks it's a classy lounge

New bistro opened in my old neighborhood

Italian Stallion Bistro

:/

yeah that kind of sounds like whatever you call the gigolo equivalent of a cathouse?

just wanted to say that i dont know what programme that pizza clip a few posts up is but holy shit i hope the woman got paid a lot of for embarrassing herself like that

My friend has a magnet on his fridge from some sort of fabric/textile place called Sew You Think You Can Dance? that has absolutely nothing to do with dance or dance uniforms or anything

Starting to think Toronto might be a hotbed of poorly named businesses, judging from comments above

I was at Smorgasburg this weekend and I was thinking about how a lot of those places have Horribly Formed Names 2.0, e.g.

http://www.bonchovie.com/

http://i.imgur.com/g9JqTtV.jpg

Holy shit, that is completely real. Be sure to read the How We Got the Name part.

We offer 30-minute response times to get you moving again without undue delays, or as we like to say “We come Lickety Split”!

You might say these guys are all in on the Camel Tow concept.

I remember these trucks. They were real too.

http://civilwartalk.com/attachments/campbell-express-jpg.31163/

Starting to think Toronto might be a hotbed of poorly named businesses, judging from comments above

Long live The Beer Store

that makes up for some of the others

good one Sweden:
http://i.imgur.com/pZMIlO2.jpg?1

used to have a place in town called pies and thighs.

http://media.tumblr.com/b51898fa9b77340c9c798fd04da5832a/tumblr_inline_mka3a7AHk01r3pwcp.jpg

http://piesnthighs.com/ xp

that's kind of a funny name for a tattoo parlor, actually.

https://scontent-b-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/p600x600/10150559_10152394235309257_412556196752621060_n.jpg

that's... fantastic

Site For Sore Eyes

optometrist

:/

http://i.imgur.com/waVV25q.jpg

there's a gym here called "hour of change" which in itself is pretty bad but recently something damaged the signs so it reads "hour of chan" which sounds like something that would be on the usa network on a sunday

http://s3-media2.ak.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/0GGuv7wL1Mn5haiJAIF-oA/l.jpg

^^^ actual restaurant in Portland. been trying to figure what exactly this place's deal is forever. It's never open, yet never officially closed either.

this one's gonna be a big success, i can feel it.

http://static.squarespace.com/static/52d614abe4b0770a479cb160/t/52d8a069e4b09614df38c0f8/1390627224616/?format=1500w

not even kidding about this.

Story behind Husky or Maltese Whatever (kinda ruins the mystery):
https://web.archive.org/web/20041009211815/http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id=25499

There's a local drain clearance firm called 'Drain & Able'.

Doggie Stylz dog grooming

:(

GLAZED EXPECTATIONS (a paint-yr-own pottery place, obvi)

http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-shared/dims3/PATCH/format/jpg/quality/82/resize/200x153%5E/crop/200x153%2B0%2B0/http://hss-prod.hss.aol.com/hss/storage/patch/49f2dc9d3df7be72bd61292bf9558c07

They sell coffee, they sell hotdogs. But somehow I just don't fancy eating or drinking anything from somewhere called: http://www.coffeedogs.co.uk/

GLAZED EXPECTATIONS (a paint-yr-own pottery place, obvi)

Not Glazed Expressions?!?!

Actual lol @ "Glazed Expectations." Years ago, there was a very short-lived shop in my town, called "OVER THE EDGE." It was like some kind of mom-and-pop version of Hot Topic. They sold spiked wristbands and...Noam Chomsky lectures on CD.

Someone who lives in Colorado needs to hip us to all of the horribly formed marijuana business names.

it's probably 150 or so coffee/weed shops named 'Higher Grounds' sprinkled across the state

http://i.imgur.com/JzHiHsu.jpg