Funny Company Names....

[jh15]

Michael Hunt Co.

[tooki]

I remember an engineer from the UK who bears the family name 'Quirk'. I really don't know what made him take up a technical profession and how he managed to get through his studies and early working years.

I know an English expat here whose last name is Quirke!

[McBryce]

So what if a female professor says "I like to eat semen" in class? That's my numerical method professor, she meant "salmon".

Is she Asian? Many Asians have problems pronouncing English words...



McBryce.

[McBryce]

A Freudian Slip perhaps?    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_slip

McBryce.

[Simon]

A Freudian Slip perhaps?    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_slip

McBryce.

our politicians keep making those, so do journalists particularly when it comes to saying "jeremy hunt"

[alanb]

A Freudian Slip perhaps?    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_slip

McBryce.

our politicians keep making those, so do journalists particularly when it comes to saying "jeremy hunt"

Best example of this was the James Naughtie interview on Radio4 Today program with Jeremy Hunt 

https://youtu.be/YS5mVoqJpUk

[Simon]

aw naughtie (naughty) James

[JPortici]

surnames in the UK can be interesting, met a guy called Prat and a young lady and her father that went by the name of Caunt.

Oh, it happens everywhere. Back when I worked at a company whose customers were 90% in Germany, I had one customer whose name was Frau Fick (noun, "fuck") and there was also Herr Mitesser (noun, medical, "blackhead")!

an old family name in my hometown was "Sborra" (a worse term for semen)
as far as i know there are no males with that surname anymore and the last person i knew who had that name was one of my friend's grandmother

[Circlotron]

A Freudian Slip perhaps?    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_slip

McBryce.

our politicians keep making those, so do journalists particularly when it comes to saying "jeremy hunt"

Our politicians sometimes say funny things too.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013/liberals-squirm-as-abbott-refers-to-the-suppository-of-wisdom-20130812-2rryy.html

[Simon]

that made the news here

[Cerebus]

Best example of this was the James Naughtie interview on Radio4 Today program with Jeremy Hunt 

https://youtu.be/YS5mVoqJpUk

Germaine Greer quipped that this was a miss-appellation of Jeremy Hunt as, "He has neither the warmth nor the depth to be a...".

[Simon]

hahaha, good one

[Bubba]

Back in the late 80's early 90's I worked in the office of a  Labor pool.
We would send workers to OT Carter that were to report to a Gentleman named Elmo Gross.

On occasion he would need help for his own side work which he had our company
bill him through OT Carter under the company name of
Gross Erections.

[garboui]

Depending on traffic I end up driving past this place from time to time and every time it gets me.

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https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.5764799,-79.559556,3a,75y,37.42h,85.43t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sIY_WSScDRk6L82PuCqlbLA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[GreyWoolfe]

My wife knows a woman whose first name from birth is Lovely.  She married a gentleman with the last name of Butts.  'nuff said.  You can't make this stuff up.

[Mr. Scram]

My wife knows a woman whose first name from birth is Lovely.  She married a gentleman with the last name of Butts.  'nuff said.  You can't make this stuff up.

I can't imagine that not causing issues when applying for all kinds of stuff, like permits and subscriptions.

[VK5RC]

I knew of a family whose surname was Motor, they seriously called their children, Petrol, Electric, Starter. What were they thinking (or smoking)!

[meeder]

In the Netherlands there is a company whose main business is transportation of manure...



The URL of the website: https://www.shitgroup.nl

[Simon]

reminds me of a newish australian company called "Who gives a crap": https://au.whogivesacrap.org/ they unsurprisingly make toilet roles with a twist.

[Simon]

My wife knows a woman whose first name from birth is Lovely.  She married a gentleman with the last name of Butts.  'nuff said.  You can't make this stuff up.

Well it was once said in a group of friends that I could never marry one of the girls as it would make her a "Paige Turner" not that I was at all interested in here anyway so we are safe there

[GreyWoolfe]

My wife knows a woman whose first name from birth is Lovely.  She married a gentleman with the last name of Butts.  'nuff said.  You can't make this stuff up.

Well it was once said in a group of friends that I could never marry one of the girls as it would make her a "Paige Turner" not that I was at all interested in here anyway so we are safe there

She is a patient where my wife works.  My wife says she has a very good sense of humor over her name.  There are a few patients with odd names that she has told me over the years but Lovely is the only one that I can remember.  The funny thing here is that part of my wife's family don't use their first names.  My wife, her 2 daughters and my wife's brother all go by their middle names.  It is a standing joke that everyone is in the witness protection program.

[Cerebus]

On the subject of odd given name/surname pairings I offer the following:

Back in the day, a friend of mine, Dave, worked in the local DHSS office. One of their clients was a Miss Balls (a not uncommon English surname). Her parents had decided to christen her Ofelia.

I used to know a family that went by the surname Snow. There were three children. The eldest was a handsome lass called Winter, then another very pretty girl called Angel and the youngest was a boy called Crispin. I used to keep an eye on the local paper for a report of latter killing his parents in bed one night.

[AtLarge]

I wear mine proudly every day.   

www.dickies.com

[Falcon69]

House of Hose

It's in Salt Lake City, Utah

It's funny because at first i read it as House of Hoes.

Salt Lake City has more nude strip clubs per square mile than any other city in the USA.

And that is funny because Salt Lake City is made up mostly of Mormon people.

[T3sl4co1l]

Hiscox Commercial Insurance?

Tim