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DARISC 10-17-2008 06:46 PM
Used to be a tiny pharmacy in in a tough neighborhood in San Diego, small cube of a run down little stucco building flanked by empty dirt lots strewn with wine botles and beer cans, with bars on the windows and big black block letters painted across its front which read S & M DRUGS. Whoa!

tcar 10-17-2008 06:49 PM
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Originally Posted by DARISC (Post 4245425)
KINKO'S!

TOTALLY fuchin' misleading name!

I HATE passing by one and having to correct after instinctively jerking the steering wheel towards their store!
It's the nickname (Kinko) of the guy who started it. One man copy shop.

He had kinky hair.

Jim Richards 10-17-2008 06:55 PM
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1179970352.jpg

craigster59 10-17-2008 07:00 PM
"Fantasy"... I've seen "Cellular Fantasy", "Carpet Fantasy" and 'Fantasy Nails". I'm sorry, if that's your fantasy, you're pretty damn easy to please.

TechnoViking 10-17-2008 07:22 PM
Grew up in a town with an "Olde Towne Shoppe". Still pisses me off just thinking about it.

herr_oberst 10-17-2008 07:25 PM
Theres a Chinese restaurant here in Portland called "Hung Far Low".

It is such a landmark, that even though the restaurant moved a few miles from Chinatown, the original sign remains, and the city is thinking of ways to pay for restoring it.

Living in Portland has its moments.

DasBoot 10-17-2008 07:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Jim Richards (Post 4245484)
Isn't your user name copied from a movie title? :p
No. My first car was an old rusty Mercedes. I nicknamed it "DasBoot" and it stuck.

herr_oberst 10-17-2008 07:27 PM
Oh, yeah, we also have High School Pharmacy (!)

and a Pig N Pancake

Jim Richards 10-17-2008 07:28 PM
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Originally Posted by DasBoot (Post 4245564)
No. My first car was an old rusty Mercedes. I nicknamed it "DasBoot" and it stuck.
So, the movie was named after your Mercedes. ;)

herr_oberst 10-17-2008 07:29 PM
Theres a gas station in Bend, OR called the Towne Pump

Parents, shield the kids eyes!

DARISC 10-17-2008 07:30 PM
Krispy Kreme irritates me.

DasBoot 10-17-2008 07:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Jim Richards (Post 4245567)
So, the movie was named after your Mercedes. ;)
No, I'm German. In German, "Das Boot" means "The Boat". My old Mercedes reminded me of a large American car that are often called "boats" or "land yachts". So...I nicknamed my large Mercedes "The Boat", but in German.

herr_oberst 10-17-2008 07:32 PM
Now you got me started: a VW-Porsche mechanic not far from my house is called "Fix-Em Haus"

Your guess is as good as mine.

Chuck Moreland 10-17-2008 07:44 PM
Master Bait and tackle. real.

How about Elephant Racing. wtf ?????

Porsche-O-Phile 10-17-2008 07:52 PM
Places that resort to low-brow humor bug me too. Out here there's a place called "Sofa King" that sells love seats and sofas. It's pretty obvious that they named the chain that just so they could plaster "our prices are sofa king low" all over their trucks, signs, billboards, etc. Har har. Funny to a 14-year-old I guess but I find it pretty crass and not at all witty.

Same with any packing plant or distributorship that feels the need to put "you can't beat our meat" under their name. Yuk, yuk, yuk. Very witty, but most of us outgrew laughing at such things along with dick and fart jokes back in 8th grade. In the public realm, it's just not funny.

kstar 10-17-2008 07:56 PM
Jeff:

Your post reminded me of these domain names with double meanings:

ExpertsExchange.com –> ExpertSexchange.com
WhoRepresents.com –> WhorePresents.com
TherapistFinder.com –> TheRapistFinder.com
PenIsland.net –> PenisLand.net
ChooseSpain.com –> ChoosesPain.com
GoTahoe.com –> GotAHoe.com
PenIsMightier.com –> PenisMightier.com
PowergenItalia.com –> PowerGenitalia.com
MoleStationNursery.com –> MolestationNursery.com
KeywordsExtractor.com –> KeywordSexTractor.com
BigAlsOnline.com –> BiGalsOnline.com
PotsOfArt.com –> PotsoFart.com
AlterScrap.com –> AltersCrap.com
ViaGrafix.com –> ViagraFix.com

Aurel 10-18-2008 03:20 AM
There is a famous Li-ion battery company named A123systems. I supppose A123 gets you on top of any automated listing, but Jeesh, talk about a boring name...

Aurel

DanielDudley 10-18-2008 05:38 AM
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Originally Posted by herr_oberst (Post 4245576)
Now you got me started: a VW-Porsche mechanic not far from my house is called "Fix-Em Haus"

Your guess is as good as mine.
They spelled Hoss wrong. :D

David McLaughlin 10-18-2008 06:14 AM
http://www.bizbuysell.com/work/402418/pa346photo.jpg

t951 10-18-2008 08:10 AM
Ummmm
 
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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile (Post 4245610)
Places that resort to low-brow humor bug me too. Out here there's a place called "Sofa King" that sells love seats and sofas. It's pretty obvious that they named the chain that just so they could plaster "our prices are sofa king low" all over their trucks, signs, billboards, etc. Har har. Funny to a 14-year-old I guess but I find it pretty crass and not at all witty.

Same with any packing plant or distributorship that feels the need to put "you can't beat our meat" under their name. Yuk, yuk, yuk. Very witty, but most of us outgrew laughing at such things along with dick and fart jokes back in 8th grade. In the public realm, it's just not funny.
I know it's juvenile, but I still love dick and fart jokes.....and I am almost 40!!!


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