Hairs To You
(men's barbershop)
go!
There are a few Computer Tune and Lube locations in Connecticut. I thought it was a bad name for an electronics repair shop but it's actually a terrible name for a car repair shop.
Wiener World-the name of a combination adult bookstore/hot dog shop in Downtown Pittsburgh (was torn down about 10 years ago)
Wiener World-the name of a combination adult bookstore/hot dog shop in Downtown Pittsburgh (was torn down about 10 years ago)
I call bullshit! No! that is not actually possible.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/money/money-matters/amputee-peng-shuilin-opens-bargain-supermarket-called-half-man-half-price-store/story-fn300aev-1225798438064
a chinese man who had his legs amputated opened a store called Half Man Half Price.
there's a picture of the guy so i'm just posting a link in case it would freak anyone out.
the worst (best) named grease truck in New Brunswick: Mr. C's Munch Mobile
A few miles away from where I am now (New London, CT) there's a gas station convenience store called "Pump N' Munch."
Sorry. I screwed up. "Felt Kids" is a terrible name of a product, not a business.
So let me try again: The Vinyl Solution. It is a record store in Portchester, NY.
I'm a big fan of the Pump N' Munch -- I was actually thinking of taking a pic and posting it here.
I'm a big fan of the Pump N' Munch -- I was actually thinking of taking a pic and posting it here.
Sorry. I screwed up. "Felt Kids" is a terrible name of a product, not a business.
So let me try again: The Vinyl Solution. It is a record store in Portchester, NY.
Where else are you going to pick up RaHoWa bootlegs?
No kidding. I just googled "Vinyl Solution" and the name seems to be quite popular for record stores and record labels. What are people thinking? Or not thinking?
Shit, there are a lot of those. None of them seem to be of the New London Pump N' Munch.
By the way, I keep looking for the Condo Fucks or other New London scene bands, but I can't seem to find them.
Sorry. I screwed up. "Felt Kids" is a terrible name of a product, not a business.
So let me try again: The Vinyl Solution. It is a record store in Portchester, NY.
Where else are you going to pick up RaHoWa bootlegs?
No kidding. I just googled "Vinyl Solution" and the name seems to be quite popular for record stores and record labels. What are people thinking? Or not thinking?
Sorry. I screwed up. "Felt Kids" is a terrible name of a product, not a business.
So let me try again: The Vinyl Solution. It is a record store in Portchester, NY.
Where else are you going to pick up RaHoWa bootlegs?
No kidding. I just googled "Vinyl Solution" and the name seems to be quite popular for record stores and record labels. What are people thinking? Or not thinking?
Not shooting the messenger but this sort of ruined my morning. One is horrific. Two is .. I don't know, jeez.
Edit: Mood equilibrium restored. Saw the new Ted Leo album cover in another thread. Everything is going to be OK.
I was just in a mall and counted no less than three stores with the word "extreme" in their name. One store was simply "Extreme."
I was just in a mall and counted no less than three stores with the word "extreme" in their name. One store was simply "Extreme."
One store was simply "Extreme."
I think I've been in there, actually. Matsuflex is the greeter. He just throws basketballs into your face.
I was just in a mall and counted no less than three stores with the word "extreme" in their name. One store was simply "Extreme."
Did you spot any photos of Nuno Bettencourt in any of them?
There is also a depressing little place a few blocks away from me called The Happy Pants Cafe, complete with a mortifying awning with pictures of dancing pants with smiley faces drawn in them.
I apologize for bringing it up.
Sweet Septic (http://www.sweetseptic.com/).There's a septic company around here who's motto is "If you don't sh*t, we don't eat".
(Used to live near their business)
Sweet Septic (http://www.sweetseptic.com/).
This isn't so much of a bad business name but rather a bad business idea. In our little college town north of Cincinnati there is about a mile of businesses on the main drag and not much after that. currently they are building a new restaurant (I guess). It is called Self-Serve Yogurt.There's a business in a nearby town called The Attitude Adjustment Shoppe (http://www.attitudeadjustmentshop.com/index.html). It's a combination liquor store and 'business center'. Maybe not a "bad" business name / concept, but certainly weird.
Just what I always wanted.
when I go to Kinkos, I think 'where's all the alcohol?'.
I don't think you're properly repulsed...
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2668/4151444366_be8def41bd.jpg)
The awning isn't out all the way, but you get the idea... DANCING PANTS!
This isn't so much of a bad business name but rather a bad business idea. In our little college town north of Cincinnati there is about a mile of businesses on the main drag and not much after that. currently they are building a new restaurant (I guess). It is called Self-Serve Yogurt.There's a business in a nearby town called The Attitude Adjustment Shoppe (http://www.attitudeadjustmentshop.com/index.html). It's a combination liquor store and 'business center'. Maybe not a "bad" business name / concept, but certainly weird.
Just what I always wanted.
Because, you know, when I go to Kinkos, I think 'where's all the alcohol?'.
Christ, is that over on 8th or 9th? I think I"ve seen that place.
If I may derail the thread a bit: I love combo stores. The weirder the better. And when I say "love" I mean, you know, love to look down on and laugh at.
I remember reading an article in my local paper about combo stores a couple of years ago; one of those desperate attempts by a writer to find a new trend. What's new? Can't write about all the new coffee shops... combo stores! The newest latest. Of course, the trend never really took off, at least not here. How I dreamed about a butcher / record shop, a hair salon / sushi joint, or juice bar / funeral parlor. My neighborhood ended up with a combined barber and art framer guy, but that's about it.
There's a barber shop on Bushwick Ave in Brooklyn called STREETGANGS.COM BARBER SHOP.
Christ, is that over on 8th or 9th? I think I"ve seen that place.
It's on Court St by Carroll Park. It's the place that never has anything in it and has perpetually "just run out" of soy milk.
There is this small pizza chain in Rhode Island called Pizza Hollywood. The name made me so angry every time I saw it that it took me years to add it up that the name is (I guess?) an incredibly bad take off of Planet Hollywood ("Pizza Hollywood. Get it? Get it?"). When I realized that that was what (I think) they were getting at, it kind of made sense, but not really. Not at all. It's so dumb and infuriating. I mean, just listen to their website: http://pizzahollywood.com/Home.html (http://pizzahollywood.com/Home.html)
Okay, I was way off. It looks like one of those weird bars in the "new" Hell's Kitchen near the Port Authority.
Bed-Stuy Barbers in Dublin... Ireland.yeah, what kind of restaurant uses ellipses in its name??
Christ, is that over on 8th or 9th? I think I"ve seen that place.
It's on Court St by Carroll Park. It's the place that never has anything in it and has perpetually "just run out" of soy milk.
Okay, I was way off. It looks like one of those weird bars in the "new" Hell's Kitchen near the Port Authority.
There is this small pizza chain in Rhode Island called Pizza Hollywood. The name made me so angry every time I saw it that it took me years to add it up that the name is (I guess?) an incredibly bad take off of Planet Hollywood ("Pizza Hollywood. Get it? Get it?"). When I realized that that was what (I think) they were getting at, it kind of made sense, but not really. Not at all. It's so dumb and infuriating. I mean, just listen to their website: http://pizzahollywood.com/Home.html (http://pizzahollywood.com/Home.html)
I love that you're still so pissed about it! There are things like this that have me hissing and spitting for years ...
I saw this unfortunately named business the last time I was in London; it's on Kensington High Road, near Hyde Park.
(http://www.scratchbomb.com/images/shemale.JPG)
On Dundas St. in Toronto there is a store called "Licks N' Clicks" that is on the first floor a burger joint and on the second floor a computer repair store.
I mentioned it on the chat during that show but there is a gay bar in Chicago called "The Nutbush". I don't know if it started as a gay bar or if the name just attracted a certain clientele.
(http://imgur.com/jpGob.jpg)
Ughh.
(http://imgur.com/jpGob.jpg)
Ughh.
yeah! I was thinking about this place while reading this thread.
On Dundas St. in Toronto there is a store called "Licks N' Clicks" that is on the first floor a burger joint and on the second floor a computer repair store.
Clicks I get. Licks, though? Who the fuck licks their burgers? Now, if it was a guitar store, that'd be different.
A truck bearing the KISS fence logo was driving alongside me on the PA Turnkpike recently. They stole the logo and everything!
http://www.kissfence.com/
I can't believe Gene has let this one go by.
In Gainesville, Florida: (http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1080/1160842625_eac57ff199.jpg?v=0)
In the Castro in San Francisco, I once saw a crepe restaurant called "Squat & Gobble".
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/jamesalvinbarron/16561_240628904921_564164921_439287.jpg)
A Video Store Named Poorly...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/jamesalvinbarron/16561_240628904921_564164921_439287.jpg)
A Video Store Named Poorly...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/jamesalvinbarron/16561_240628904921_564164921_439287.jpg)
Personally, I always preferred They Call Me Mr. Tapes.
A Video Store Named Poorly...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/jamesalvinbarron/16561_240628904921_564164921_439287.jpg)
Personally, I always preferred They Call Me Mr. Tapes.
I liked Mo'Beta Blues before they were forced out of business.
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A Video Store Named Poorly...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/jamesalvinbarron/16561_240628904921_564164921_439287.jpg)
Personally, I always preferred They Call Me Mr. Tapes.
I liked Mo'Beta Blues before they were forced out of business.
Too bad it didn't last, they could've just changed the name to Mo'Better Blus.
There's a Comedy Club in French Lick, IN called 'Laffghanistan'.
FAIL blog comes through:
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Heh, I used to live near a "Let's Get Stoned Inc." I wonder if there's more than one.
There's a Thai restaurant in L.A., near Virgil and Fountain I think, called Eat 'n' High.
(http://www.smokinbowls.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/IMG00153.276175517_std.jpg)
Smokin' Bowls
On Netflix, I have a stuffy documentary in my queue called Nietzsche and the Nazis, which sounds more like an ironic band name.
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Heh, I used to live near a "Let's Get Stoned Inc." I wonder if there's more than one.
I was about to post this. The one I know of is right near Doylestown, PA.
There's a cupcake place here called 2 Girls and a Cupcake. I thought it was 2 Girls 1 Cupcake for a while.
I like the sandwich shop inside our local Home Depot: Chew and Screw.
I like puns, so two business names that I find amusing, but might fall under the Bad Business Names game are:
A Salt and Battery (fish & chips shop)
Thai Me Up (Thai restaurant)
One business name I don't care for is:
Chat n' Chew (because it evokes imagery of one talking with their mouth full = impolite dining behavior)
I ate at The Old Spaghetti Factory (as chosen by the birthday girl) last night. The waiter was inattentive, the bread funny-tasting, the soup too peppery, the strawberry lemonade strawberryless, but when I was finally served my spaghetti, I couldn't complain, because it was just as advertised.
I mentioned it on the chat during that show but there is a gay bar in Chicago called "The Nutbush". I don't know if it started as a gay bar or if the name just attracted a certain clientele.
Back in college, I used to call businesses and do marketing surveys. The only one I remember by name is a gay bar called "The White Swallow."
I ate at The Old Spaghetti Factory (as chosen by the birthday girl) last night. The waiter was inattentive, the bread funny-tasting, the soup too peppery, the strawberry lemonade strawberryless, but when I was finally served my spaghetti, I couldn't complain, because it was just as advertised.
I ate at The Old Spaghetti Factory (as chosen by the birthday girl) last night. The waiter was inattentive, the bread funny-tasting, the soup too peppery, the strawberry lemonade strawberryless, but when I was finally served my spaghetti, I couldn't complain, because it was just as advertised.
What, old, right?
I ate at The Old Spaghetti Factory (as chosen by the birthday girl) last night. The waiter was inattentive, the bread funny-tasting, the soup too peppery, the strawberry lemonade strawberryless, but when I was finally served my spaghetti, I couldn't complain, because it was just as advertised.
What, old, right?
I assume that, like any restaurant with the word Factory in its name, the food is produced by robots always on the verge of going out of control while Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse" plays in the background.
i saw a place called Rhythm and Beers. so bad it hurts.
i saw a place called Rhythm and Beers. so bad it hurts.
During a horrid, yet thankfully brief, stretch of NJ and Maxwell's history, Maxwells was bought by someone who turned it into a brewpup. I think they mostly booked cover bands. I am positive that two of their beers were called "Alternative Ale" and "Percussion Porter." That will never be forgotten.
“hey, where are we going? Someplace fun? Are we gonna go get ice cream…. Oh, I see. We’re going to …a bead store. I guess I’ll just wait in the car."
This also suits the "stuff you hate" and the "pictures you took" thread, but here's Wi Pie.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2802/4399764714_231222ffe0_o.jpg)
My wife pronounced it "wipey."
BIONIC CLOWNS, INC.
I couldn't get a business description on this one.