Tacky names, add your own

[Jet]

The only one that kind of makes me giggle around here is Buffet King, you have to use the other pronunciation of it to get it :P

[Dreamstalker]

I always thought the best name for a hot sauce was "Slap My Ass and Call Me Sally." But as I was researching the reference to make sure I had it right, I found, the one and only, "Dr. Payne Indeass's Butt Blazin' Recipe # 6 Butt Pucker XX Sauce."

Chile Addict in Albuquerque has some good ones.

Pagan--yup, CSF. As luck would have it, they wait until after I'm out of there to revamp the computer science curriculum...

There's an outfit in Boston called Death Wish Piano Moving. I'm going to have to start taking my camera everywhere to get a photo of the truck (out-of-state friends never believe me).

[BusBus]

And I have to ask, what's so odd about Tyrone? I mean, maybe it's just because I grew up next to it that it doesn't sound abnormal, is there some pop culture/dirty joke refference I'm missin' cuz I'm a backwoods person out here?

I don't get it either

[Tanasi]

Here we have a Dick's Sporting Goods that is located on South Peters Road and it is across the road from Harry Lane Chrysler Dodge. One day one of my wifes friend said "To get the Dick you to take the Peter and it's right across from the Harry Lane."

[Argabarga]

Hehehe, just north of Pittsburgh, lies Beaver Falls....in Beaver County, of all places. There's also a Tyrone, PA out towards State College. Now that one took no imagination at all. Why not give the home of Penn State a more interesting name

Well, I actualy live in State College, (Which has a Beaver Av. and a Beaver Staduim) and if you belive local lore, there's a (probably apocryphal) story that since we're so close to the geographical center of the State, that one of the original names floated for the town was "Dead Center"

And I have to ask, what's so odd about Tyrone? I mean, maybe it's just because I grew up next to it that it doesn't sound abnormal, is there some pop culture/dirty joke refference I'm missin' cuz I'm a backwoods person out here?

[anode_probe]

Well I can't believe there was no mention of this, I shame any Torontonians who have read this thread and not come up with it. Unfortunately the configuration was changed recently, but near Steeles Ave. and Younge St in Toronto there was a Beaver Gas and Beaver Lumber (Both major chains in Canada,) When my friends and I were learning how to drive, we would know we wew on the right track to down town TO because we'd pass the "Quiff and Dildo."

[iradney]

there's a couple towns in SA with weird names
there's Hotazhel (pronounced Hot As Hell) - and it IS!
We also have Tweebuffelsmorsdoodgeskitmeteenskootsfontein (two buffaloes killed with one bullet town). It's generally Buffelsfontein
and Pitsonderwater - which could either mean Pit Without Water, or Pits Under Water.

[protege]

First there is Tyrone, then Guymon, then Hooker and last but not least Beaver...

Hehehe, just north of Pittsburgh, lies Beaver Falls....in Beaver County, of all places. There's also a Tyrone, PA out towards State College. Now that one took no imagination at all. Why not give the home of Penn State a more interesting name

[Argabarga]

Oh, almost forgot, among the Doctors who I see on RX pads, there is one with an unfortunate name...


Dr. Butcher



Yes, he is a surgeon....

[MistressCrys]

In my town we have an Oriental restaurant called OPM. If that's nto bad enough, their mascot is a huge sumo guy named "Big Wang".

Up where my father lives "Oklahoma" there are towns that make you wonder as to what the people who named them were either on or doing at the time....First there is Tyrone, then Guymon, then Hooker and last but not least Beaver... Boy someone must have had a seriously dirty mind to name it such...

"It takes thirteen years to break a child...the same amount of time it takes to complete school" Martin Luther King

[Hemily]

back in 2000, there was a news story about the new years baby! the first kid in norway in the year 2000, the proud father's name? Hugo Homo, i wonder if that kid's getting teased...

and some names get lost in translation, a couple fairly common first names here, is Odd, and Roar, and my mother's name is Wenche....

[Pagan]

Dreamstalker - can't remember. College of Santa Fe?

There was a restaurant in Taos, I don't know if it's still there, called Joe Mama's. They had really good food, too.

We've got an orthodontist here in ABQ named Dr. Ken Hurt ("It's just my name, not my intention.")

If I remember correctly, there used to be a urologist in Las Cruces named Dr. Zipper and an OB/GYN named Dr. Love. My mom's dentist down there is Dr. Pinholster.

Kind of off topic: Has anyone ever been to Dick's Cafe in Dallas? The whole goal is to be as rude to your waitperson as possible since they are just as rude to you! It was a blast!

[HalloranElder]

My Chiropractor is Dr Leach...

[Imogene]

I swear, as the family was driving over to a family friend's house tonight, we drove right past a truck that was emblazoned with the epithet:
BM Planning, Inc.

[skeptic53]

That's precisely the restaurant I'm referring to

I looked it up and you are right, the Hung Far Low is in SE Portland. Used to be in Chinatown near the bus station in downtown, back when dinosaurs ruled the earth and I was a lad... When you said it was in SE I didn't realize you were referring to PDX per se...