local businesses with horribly formed "names"

food cart in my town called "STFU & NOM" - yeah, I'll pass

It's bad enough that one of our biggest national restaurant chains is called "EAT."

Well, ok then. It doesn't have a bad pun or double entendre. I just hate it.

https://i.imgur.com/OtlyBkX.png

I hate "names" that are URLs. I hate the imperative phrasing of it. I hate the personal "my" aspect.

I don't even like the catfish wearing a hat with a hook on it.

Pacha Soap - Dirty Hippy

https://cdn-cosmos.bluesoft.com.br/products/813723011334

Which of these is more offensive to ILXors in terms of name formation?

https://www.mywineguy.com.au/
https://www.yourgrocer.com.au/

I'm not crazy about either of them, since their both assigning "ownership" to the consumer.

But mywineguy is gets extra demerits for bad grammar and intent since it isn't as clear whose "wine guy" were talking about here. Is it me, when I type "my wine guy" into the browser? Or is the owner of the URL?

Or is it Mary Wells?

OMG, "since they're both assigning..."

I hate grammar threads!

This sport/camping/outdoor chain of stores we have in Belgium and France is just called A.S. Adventure (their former name was "American Stockhouse," hence the A.S.)
but I can't read their website https://www.asadventure.com/en/stores.html as anything other than A Sad Venture :(

lol

Haha

https://i.imgur.com/Per64KA.jpg

assadventures

a sad assad, even

When I lived in Albuquerque there was a store called Purse-anality. I could never figure out why they went with an 'a' instead of an 'o'.

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/51912994_10158121762493709_4627602638945386496_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-1.xx&oh=38ca216da65f6f69a0d15134f5d0ba36&oe=5D3FF7C7

Southend-on-Sea, vaping shop.

https://www.puffdade.com/shop/img/st/9.jpg

brilliant

Holy Crêpe

Would go from 'horribly' to 'brilliantly' formed if that's next door to or across the road from a place of worship.

Sorry, but just to err on the side of caution my children will not be crossing the threshold of Your Child is Mine Preschool, thankuverymuch.

ahahahaha

Saw this in Tel Aviv
https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/58616576_10161578873605304_4078637412572463104_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&_nc_oc=AQk7ZyMjYg20BT9_DCOssCmcjV474vpBf6yrxxaeL5URFshNuVqiEqy5_BqGnKbF1SM&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.xx&oh=43e96c0bc654590e6fb3c525b5ecb240&oe=5D9E063F

Apparently, at one time, it was a lingerie shop.

https://i.imgur.com/fGeMf4g.png

Now it's just creepy as hell.

Spotted in Bordeaux

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CAOGKeCUkAA632h.png

Terrible, but it works slightly better with a thick French accent since the 'd' and 's' of 'bâtards' are both silent.

'Greyed A Greyhounds'

...You didn't need to do that. That didn't need to happen.

There's an optometrist here called AccessorEyes.

Dog grooming shop called 'Going To The Dogs'. As it's a shop and not a mobile service are they just saying their shop is run-down and shit?

not a horrible name, but a marquee. Local Animal Hospital has a marquee that says

"WATCH ME SNIP
WATCH ME SPAY SPAY"

no

Gross.

https://www.potogoldwaste.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/standard-toilet-1.jpg

felt so ripped off. there were no gold in them trenches

If your poo is gold, you need to get the fuck out of Lollapalooza or whatever and see a doctor ASAP.

I recently discovered that there’s a gift shop in NJ called Flowers in the Attic.

This is probably less a horribly-formed 'name' than it is an inexplicable-yet-amazing combination of name + business purview but

Life For Christ Karate Ministries

I see all sorts of religion out there on the dojo.

Granted, it runs a little more Eastern than whatever this is:

https://i.imgur.com/z3x890E.jpg

Can't remember if I ever posted this -- from Decatur GA.

https://scontent-mia3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/51912994_10158121762493709_4627602638945386496_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&_nc_oc=AQlQrZW5ycNm9NJok1og-YnS4h4iW0acQeU1jjdsgme2l0bc-CGPRX6Pb5y3TZi73fQ&_nc_ht=scontent-mia3-2.xx&oh=e0f29e29e0e47d6cf49ec01800da56e1&oe=5DDE2BC7

i'm always driving when i pass this place so no photos but here is their website

http://ubadautodetail.com/

i kind of like the name but i'm not usually in the market for auto detailing. in fact i don't actually know what "auto detailing" entails.

It's not a local company, but a North American roofing business based out of Pennsylvania... but...

https://i.imgur.com/FRg4cI5.png

Every morning I drive past the local facility and every morning, I think about the 100% fabricated marketing conversation that my head insists on replaying:

CEO: I don't just guarantee we've got the lowest price – I certaintee it!

MARKETING GUY: Ok. I like it. But first, first, "certaintee" isn't really a word, and secondly –

CEO: Well I know that! I just made it up!

MARKETING GUY: Secondly, if it really was a word, how would it come to mean a more intense version of "guarantee"? It seems problematic, espe–

CEO: Fuck it! You know what, smart guy? That word's that's not a word is the new name for the company! How's that for an "intense version"? Haha, IT'S GODDMAMMED CERTAINTEED FROM NOW ON.

https://i.ibb.co/17btx2M/8895-C44-C-3-BC0-4-D27-9-F4-B-33-D9254425-D0.jpg

Now, Watchpity, for losers who can't go to the awards shows but have to be on time to watch them on TV with acquaintances...

hey watchpital! i'm walkin' here!

Not quite on topic, but calling a strip club ‘Burke and Hare’ (in Edinburgh) is kind of dark, maybe over honest?

I mentioned this elsewhere but I enjoyed seeing a business called "STAMP TRAMP - mobile notary."

Fisticuts Barbershop.

there is a t-shirt printing business called "Hittn' Skins" here

a dumpster rental place called "Bin There Dump That"

a shoe store simply called "Shoooz"

a formal wear store with the unfortunate name "T & A Formal Wear"

and a dumpster rental called "Kenny G the Dumpster King"

Incredible

https://i.ibb.co/1fPmcrF/IMG-4362.jpg

On Brick Lane yet another place has opened in honour of our old prostitute murderer, this time a chip shop called Jack the Chipper. Slightly worried that the council might eventually get around to making us all have a play on his name at some point. (For example: About a year and a half ago they opened the Turkish barbers ‘Jack the Clipper’)

https://i.ibb.co/Bs9rTXN/FB-IMG-1580151345755.jpg
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