Share some real life business and surnames that make you say, "Huh?"

[wnylib]

Examples:

In Buffalo there is a funeral home and crematorium named Amigone.

I once met a clergyman whose last name was Parsons.

[redwitch]

1. I know of a podiatrist named Dr. Foote. nt

[essaynnc]

2. A massage therapist

named Harry Tuch

my brother actually...

[MerryHolidays]

3. And there was one of the leaders of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Sin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Sin

[pdxflyboy]

4. Years ago,

My wife worked with an MD whose last name, I kid you not, was Kill. Dr. Kill.

[wnylib]

7. Oh, no. Hope be was not a surgeon.

Talk about not inspiring confidence.

[IjustDontlikeRepugs]

13. There used to be a Dr in my town named Dr Slaughter.

[BootinUp]

5. Zack Zilch kind of cracks me up still. nt

[doc03]

8. Dick Skinner

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[Nay]

9. I knew a gynecologist whose last name was Raper. Also, in our town there was a prosthetic

manufacturing company called Stubbs Limb and Brace.

[Boxerfan]

10. My childhood Pediatrician Dr. I. Ball.

Should have been a Optometrist.

[grumpyduck]

11. A co-worker once broke his nose

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]

16. Frankenstein is hilarious.

I'd think the doc might want to change it to Franken, or just Frank. But maybe he enjoyed the reactions of people.

[grumpyduck]

23. Oh, I'm sure he did.

[greatauntoftriplets]

12. My father worked with a man whose father-in-law was named...

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]

14. The veteran morning weatherman at WCNC Charlotte is Larry Sprinkle

He's been there forever, and he's great. I went for a while to a dentist named Dr. Cheek.

[TexasBushwhacker]

15. The Goo Goo Dolls are from Buffalo. They had a song "Amigone"

In Houston, we have/had a proctologist named Dr. Butts.

[wnylib]

20. Here is a link to the Amigone Funeral and Cremation business.

They have several locations in the Buffalo area.

https://www.amigone.com/

[TexasBushwhacker]

21. How is "Amigone" pronounced?

[wnylib]

24. The emphasis is on the first syllable.

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]

28. In Fort Worth we had a proctologist named Mal Rumph.

[Grammy23]

17. Haven't checked lately but there used to be a

person in the White Pages named Chuck Roast.

[Diamond_Dog]

18. Used to be a plastic surgeon around here

Dr. Butcher

[cloudbase]

19. I had a shipmate named Mastromarino.

Italian for master mariner.

[whistler162]

31. Did they usually get seasick?

[cloudbase]

32. No.

[Totally Tunsie]

22. There are a number of dentists in CT named Dr. Payne.

[jmowreader]

25. In Afton, WY, in the late 1960s and early 1970s...

…the dentist was Dr. Payne, which is pronounced “pain.”

[jmowreader]

26. In two Idaho cities there are donut shops owned by the same family

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 d’Alene, 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]

27. There used to be a doughnut shop chain

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]

29. Let's not forget the ultimate junk stores - those named

"Let's Go Brandon".

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[whistler162]

30. Red Light Spa in Camillus NY

Located across from a red light - https://www.theredlightspa.com/ - closed now due to Covid!

[Higherarky]

33. Drs. Mader & Dye

Chiropractors, Camdenton, Mo.

Made 'er die ...
Oh My!

[RipVanWinkle]

34. There used to be a dentist in Central Austin

named Dr. Root.

[Higherarky]

35. I met a guy named Harry Reddick.

He told me he thought his parents must have hated him.

[wnylib]

50. There was a set of identical twins in my high school.

Their last name was Sexauer (pronounced sexhour).

One was named Henry. The other was named Harry.

[Higherarky]

53. I dare not ask

how folks could tell them apart ...

😳
🤭

[wnylib]

55. Don't know. I never tried to.

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]

36. In Cagary there was once an alderman

Named R. T. Alderman.

[wnylib]

51. Alderman Alderman. Like the guy that I met who was Parson Parsons.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

37. The owner/GM of a nearby restaurant...

... 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]

46. made me laugh!

[wnylib]

52. He could have used Rick, Ricky, or Rich.

Personally, I like Rich Duck.

[Higherarky]

38. Dick Liquors

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]

63. Very respected woman's college in PA was called "Beaver College."

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]

39. The Fudge Factory in Uranus, Mo.

uranusmissouri.com

Check out the website ...
Tooooooo funny!!!

[BluesRunTheGame]

60. They now have a second location in Anderson, Indiana on I-69.

[lpbk2713]

40. I knew a Marine named Sgt Pepper.

Once had a neighbor named Ada Stone.

[Old Crank]

41. When we drove by Hastings, England,

We saw a concrete truck named:

William the Concreter.

http://www.williamtheconcreter.co.uk/

[wnylib]

54. Good one for both name and location.

[Old Crank]

42. At Stanford the head grounds keeper

for the gold course was;

Thomas Thatcher. And no, they didn't have thatched roofs there either.

[Higherarky]

43. Hey wnylib!

Thanx for this fun thread!

[wnylib]

56. Jay Leno used to have a segment on the Tonight Show

in which he read and showed pictures of name combinations sent in by viewers.

[joemacdawson]

44. Anita Pu

There’s a genuine philosophy professor in New Zealand named Anita Pu. Though I’ve seen that name before in joking contexts.
And I once knew a guy named Harry Dycke. However you pronounce his surname, it’s funny.

[dalton99a]

45. Dr. Cockburn, urologist

in Taos, NM

[GReedDiamond]

47. Don't know if it still exists, but there was a Chinese food...

...restaurant in Tujunga CA called "Poo-Ping Palace."

I used to drive past it in the 90s, but never ate (or pooped) there.

[Marthe48]

48. Belpre, Ohio Dunaway Funeral Home

[Danmel]

49. I had an orthopedist named Dr. Bohne

[Ptah]

57. Dick Trickle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Trickle

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

58. Burnie's Funeral Home & Cremation Services

[BluesRunTheGame]

59. Chuck-A-Rama Buffet

Chain of restaurants in Utah and Idaho.

[BluesRunTheGame]

61. Chiropractor named Dr. Pop in Kalispell, MT.

[malthaussen]

62. Commander Jesse Coward.

For the historical-minded. Later became an admiral, he was a great destroyer squadron commander in the Solomons campaign.

-- Mal

[Hotler]

64. Beaver Liquors and Stoner

https://beaverliquors.com/

https://www.mapquest.com/us/colorado/stoner-282910823
Town of Stoner. It's nice over there. Just outside of Four Corners.

[Disaffected]

66. Sofa King (furniture store)

"Shop here, our prices are Sofa King low"

[Jade Fox]

67. girl named Fonda Dicks.......

Someone I knew claimed to have gone to high school with her.

[imavoter]

68. Dallas used to have a hospital named after businessman R H. Dedman

It's been renamed a couple of times over since then, but
my teenage brain used to giggle.