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Funny Company Names....
« on: October 01, 2012, 09:35:56 pm »
Post up your favorite real companies that have funny names. 
I'll start.

Mutual Screw Hardware.  (Check out the tag line.  Gets me every time)
http://www.mutualscrew.com/

Assmann Components (Makes me think of Seinfeld)
http://www.assmann.us/
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2012, 09:46:16 pm »
Bimbo bread

 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2012, 10:34:28 pm »
Bimbo bread is great.

Internacionale Moustache Wax

(That's my company)
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2012, 10:47:52 pm »
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2012, 10:51:23 pm »
sexwax
Professional Electron Wrangler.
Any comments, or points of view expressed, are my own and not endorsed , induced or compensated by my employer(s).
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2012, 10:52:39 pm »
http://www.wayne-kerr.co.uk/

For some reason this one reminds me of Beavis & friend :
http://www.buttkereit.co.uk/
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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #6 on: October 02, 2012, 03:46:02 am »
http://procreation.com.au

Sadly, I know the owner...  :o
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #7 on: October 02, 2012, 05:25:58 am »
Paulo
Professional Tinkerer,
www.paulorenato.com
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #8 on: October 02, 2012, 05:35:56 am »
For many years there was a Bread Company in Perth WA,by the name of "Brown & Burns"! ;D
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #10 on: October 02, 2012, 05:56:11 am »
IPS (does not stand for Inverted Penis Syndrome)

http://www.railwayparts.com/
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #12 on: October 02, 2012, 07:17:23 am »
I once came across a builders van that was sign written with the name. " Bodgitt & Scarper "
 
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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #13 on: October 02, 2012, 07:29:51 am »
I once came across a builders van that was sign written with the name. " Bodgitt & Scarper "

I think they may have done some work on my place! ;D
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #14 on: October 02, 2012, 07:56:41 am »
In my home town we have:
"Hair off the dog" dog groomers (not sure if the expression "hair of the dog" makes it outside of the UK)
"Smallbone and Sons" funeral directors
"Pull yourself together" curtain shop

Elsewhere I've seen:
"Curl up and dye" hairdressers
And this:

« Last Edit: October 02, 2012, 08:53:21 am by GeoffS »
 
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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #15 on: October 02, 2012, 09:04:23 am »
Sign on a badly damaged PUB after a storm

  "Fallen INN"

also there was an eatery in Noosa . "Musk Duck Inn"
 

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« Reply #16 on: October 02, 2012, 10:46:00 am »
I worked for a Swiss company that was taken over by Siemens, the UK office was in Staines.
The receptionist quit four days later, after all the crank calls (many of them internal), waiting to hear her announce "Good Morning Siemens Staines, how may I help you?".
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #17 on: October 02, 2012, 11:43:22 am »
I once came across a builders van that was sign written with the name. " Bodgitt & Scarper "

A few miles up the road from here is a firm of solicitors called Wright Hassall -- they are, by all accounts, very good, but the name must get them remembered!

I seem to recall the same town used to play host to a shop selling door furniture, called simply Knobs & Knockers.
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #18 on: October 02, 2012, 11:59:53 am »
I worked for a Swiss company that was taken over by Siemens, the UK office was in Staines.
The receptionist quit four days later, after all the crank calls (many of them internal), waiting to hear her announce "Good Morning Siemens Staines, how may I help you?".

Ladies & gentlemen,we have a winner! ;D
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #19 on: October 02, 2012, 01:12:55 pm »
Wallis Prance solictors.
Always misread it as Wally Prance from my dad's office (opposite side of the car park.)
 

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« Reply #20 on: October 02, 2012, 01:40:49 pm »
On another project I was introduced to the cleaning supervisor from a company called Swan.
They all had uniforms embroidered with "Swan Cleaning", so I suggested to him that I had never before met someone involved in such a specialist occupation.
He did assure me that they had a lot of work.  ;)
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #21 on: October 02, 2012, 01:52:22 pm »
I wonder how many people genuinely enquire about swan cleaning services instead of Swan Cleaning services.
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #22 on: October 02, 2012, 02:34:08 pm »
A. Duie Pyle

www.aduiepyle.com
"No, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express"
 

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« Reply #23 on: October 02, 2012, 07:10:02 pm »
Smeg

Need I say more?
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #24 on: October 02, 2012, 07:58:35 pm »
Another Red Dwarf fan................
 


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