local businesses with horribly formed "names"

can’t think of the best place for it, but this youtube video for a local punk record and clothing shop made me absolutely lose my fucking mind laughing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMMAO8uH5wk

reminded me that I still need a vinyl copy of My War which is inexplicably expensive in the UK, damn you Ginnnnnnnn!

Talk about horribly formed!

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/11yyvfs/

(It doesn't help much to know the sign is in French)

Passed by a caribbean/jamaican outdoor food stall over the weekend: Jerkin' It

every other day I walk past this restaurant and think "fucking hell, don't call your restaurant that, have some self respect, jesus christ"

http://jenikya.com/blog/eggslut7.jpg

then just now looking for a picture I find that it's not a weird london business but a chain?! from los angeles?!

let's try that again

https://i.postimg.cc/pTHsydLT/eggslut7.jpg

Yes, wildly popular here, but I think only a couple locations, which keeps the lines long.

In Brevard county, there's a public transportation company called Space Coast Area Transit.

But, as I learned this weekend, they're referred to everywhere by their acronym which is

I have the same feelings about Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

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

For a brief, but entertaining, time there was, up in Canada, the Conservative Reform Alliance Party ...

SCAT is a well-formed acronym for a transportation system because it means to go away quickly.

it also means

SKEDADDLE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MutYIgL4Gbk

Compare MC Skat Kat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xweiQukBM_k

can't decide if this is good or bad

This is my favourite post punk bakery. This and Siouxsie and the Bunshees. pic.twitter.com/wNefYYOeGe

— Jemaine Clement (@AJemaineClement) August 23, 2023

Ditto this...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CR8Pu2UXIAACxrE.jpg

Gonna start a restaurant called Mission of Shawarma. You could order a That's When I Reach for My Falafel with a side of Tahini Fight Song.

Instant Korma, Surrealistic Pilau etc

Gang of Flour

Boule in the Heather

Lol @ tabes

Bun-known Pleasures

Tom Tom Club Sandwich

This Yeast

This is an obscure one, but I furiously cackled when I saw a Sydney vegetarian restaurant called Lentil As Anything

https://i.ibb.co/dL6wKJq/Screenshot-2023-08-24-at-09-50-57.png

Chai GPT, Hyderabad, India

Tropical fish store "The Wet Spot" in Portland.

Little Red Roaster

Midnightreats

Bugs me because you can read it as Midnigh Treats or Midnight Reats.

thinking maybe Cook Children's Healthcare System might have sought out a different naming convention.

esp given how many people that refer to it and leave off the 'apostrophe S'

(yes I'm aware Cook is the county)

I don't have a real-world example at hand, but I hate it when people can't come up with a company name and instead just cram the first few letters of the 2 founder's names together:

Davric Plumbing Supply
Robmar Consultants

https://www.its-behind-you.com/images/10Dartford_large.jpg

Desilu Productions (/ˈdɛsiluː/) was an American television production company founded and co-owned by husband and wife Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball.

Davlav combines the name and the business.

And out of the recesses of my M*A*S*H-ed mind floats the answer to what "B.J." stands for in B.J. Hunnicut.

Pieseas Chippy, Harwich.

If we can extend the thread concept to podcasts, I just learnt that right wing journo Katy Balls has a podcast named Women with Balls

Not local to me, but:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tr723ZTDJYs/maxresdefault.jpg

Barber Streisand is bad.

Book Pasaage is actually kind of clever as these things go

idgi

Ditto.

like you are going to "book passage" on a ship, but also a book is something you read that has passages in it?

I don't have a real-world example at hand, but I hate it when people can't come up with a company name and instead just cram the first few letters of the 2 founder's names together:

looking at the local area on google maps recently i came across (googleproofing it) 'Naz-1sh alterations', guess what I read it as :/

xp my immediate thought was "back passage".

Yeah, back passage = arsehole

there's no way that that's what the bookstore was thinking

well, on re-reading the thread title, maybe the contention is that the bookstore is unaware of the connotation, but i don't really think "book" sounds anything like "back" or that the name of the store brings to mind an anus

you don't think it sounds *anything* like back?