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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsShare some real life business and surnames that make you say, "Huh?"
Examples:
In Buffalo there is a funeral home and crematorium named Amigone.
I once met a clergyman whose last name was Parsons.
redwitch
(14,941 posts)essaynnc
(799 posts)named Harry Tuch
my brother actually...
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MerryHolidays
(7,715 posts)pdxflyboy
(674 posts)My wife worked with an MD whose last name, I kid you not, was Kill. Dr. Kill.
wnylib
(21,346 posts)Talk about not inspiring confidence.
IjustDontlikeRepugs
(634 posts)BootinUp
(47,087 posts)doc03
(35,299 posts)Last edited Sat Jul 16, 2022, 11:52 AM - Edit history (1)
Nay
(12,051 posts)manufacturing company called Stubbs Limb and Brace.
Boxerfan
(2,533 posts)Should have been a Optometrist.
grumpyduck
(6,225 posts)playing basketball. He told me his plastic surgeon's name was Dr. Frankenstein. I looked him up. He was there all right.
Many years ago in MA there was a business by the name of Poor Ambulance Service.
wnylib
(21,346 posts)I'd think the doc might want to change it to Franken, or just Frank. But maybe he enjoyed the reactions of people.
grumpyduck
(6,225 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,729 posts)Harry B. Hynd. He'd always introduce himself exactly that way, too.
There was a surgeon at the local hospital named Dr. Slaughter.
ms liberty
(8,558 posts)He's been there forever, and he's great. I went for a while to a dentist named Dr. Cheek.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,148 posts)In Houston, we have/had a proctologist named Dr. Butts.
wnylib
(21,346 posts)They have several locations in the Buffalo area.
https://www.amigone.com/
TexasBushwhacker
(20,148 posts)wnylib
(21,346 posts)The "i" is pronounced like the "i" in "is." The last syllable, "gone" is pronounced the same as the word "gone."
When the name is spoken in casual, every day speech, it sounds like careless slang pronunciation for "I" when "I" sounds more like the word "a." That's because the last two syllables run together after the emphasis on the first syllable.
Imagine someone asking "Am I gone?" with the emphasis on "am" as if it's too hard to believe. The middle syllable comes out as a soft "a" sound. Sort of suggests the phrase "Am a goner."
broiles
(1,367 posts)Grammy23
(5,810 posts)person in the White Pages named Chuck Roast.
Diamond_Dog
(31,924 posts)Dr. Butcher
cloudbase
(5,511 posts)Italian for master mariner.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)cloudbase
(5,511 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)jmowreader
(50,530 posts)the dentist was Dr. Payne, which is pronounced pain.
jmowreader
(50,530 posts)The one in Post Falls, which came first, was baseball themed. Its name was Donut Dugout and Ice Cream Inning. Not bad so far.
The one in Coeur dAlene, which is currently offline because the family is building a new store where the old one was, has the family name of Gross on it.
Yep
Gross Donuts. The name worked so well Donut Dugout is now also Gross Donuts.
True story: One day I went out with the specific intent of photographing the Gross Donuts sign and posting it on DU. It never got there because when I pulled down the street to get to it I found a really long line of emergency vehicles and wound up writing up the apartment complex fire for the paper.
wnylib
(21,346 posts)in western NY called Dickie's Donuts. I didn't think much about the name at the time, but thinking it over now, it does sound a little "gross."
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)"Let's Go Brandon".
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whistler162
(11,155 posts)Located across from a red light - https://www.theredlightspa.com/ - closed now due to Covid!
Higherarky
(637 posts)Chiropractors, Camdenton, Mo.
Made 'er die ...
Oh My!
RipVanWinkle
(218 posts)named Dr. Root.
Higherarky
(637 posts)He told me he thought his parents must have hated him.
wnylib
(21,346 posts)Their last name was Sexauer (pronounced sexhour).
One was named Henry. The other was named Harry.
Higherarky
(637 posts)how folks could tell them apart ...
😳
🤭
wnylib
(21,346 posts)The origin of the name is less dramatic than its sound in English. It is location surname for someone from Sexau (pronounced Zexow) in the German Black Forest.
ironflange
(7,781 posts)Named R. T. Alderman.
wnylib
(21,346 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,852 posts)... called "Proud Pig" (which pretty quickly went out of business) was named "Dick Duck".
My mother wasn't hired as a cook by that man, after she couldn't stop giggling during the interview upon hearing his name. She kept saying after she returned home, "Why wouldn't he use the name Richard?! Instead he's Dick Duck, owner of the Proud Pig!"
rurallib
(62,387 posts)wnylib
(21,346 posts)Personally, I like Rich Duck.
Higherarky
(637 posts)Camdenton, Mo. Don't know if it's still there, but have a shot glass & t-shirt from there.
Near the village of Busch, near Beaver Lake in NW Arkansas:
Beaver Liquors
malthaussen
(17,175 posts)They changed their name in the internet era, not liking the web domain that would come out of it. It had been co-ed for a number of years by then anyway.
-- Mal
Higherarky
(637 posts)uranusmissouri.com
Check out the website ...
Tooooooo funny!!!
BluesRunTheGame
(1,607 posts)lpbk2713
(42,741 posts)Once had a neighbor named Ada Stone.
Old Crank
(3,532 posts)We saw a concrete truck named:
William the Concreter.
http://www.williamtheconcreter.co.uk/
wnylib
(21,346 posts)Old Crank
(3,532 posts)for the gold course was;
Thomas Thatcher. And no, they didn't have thatched roofs there either.
Higherarky
(637 posts)Thanx for this fun thread!
wnylib
(21,346 posts)in which he read and showed pictures of name combinations sent in by viewers.
joemacdawson
(61 posts)Theres a genuine philosophy professor in New Zealand named Anita Pu. Though Ive seen that name before in joking contexts.
And I once knew a guy named Harry Dycke. However you pronounce his surname, its funny.
dalton99a
(81,406 posts)in Taos, NM
GReedDiamond
(5,310 posts)...restaurant in Tujunga CA called "Poo-Ping Palace."
I used to drive past it in the 90s, but never ate (or pooped) there.
Marthe48
(16,906 posts)Danmel
(4,908 posts)Ptah
(33,021 posts)cagefreesoylentgreen
(838 posts)BluesRunTheGame
(1,607 posts)Chain of restaurants in Utah and Idaho.
BluesRunTheGame
(1,607 posts)malthaussen
(17,175 posts)For the historical-minded. Later became an admiral, he was a great destroyer squadron commander in the Solomons campaign.
-- Mal
Hotler
(11,396 posts)https://www.mapquest.com/us/colorado/stoner-282910823
Town of Stoner. It's nice over there. Just outside of Four Corners.
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Disaffected
(4,547 posts)"Shop here, our prices are Sofa King low"
Jade Fox
(10,030 posts)Someone I knew claimed to have gone to high school with her.
imavoter
(646 posts)It's been renamed a couple of times over since then, but
my teenage brain used to giggle.