Best Business Names

[ClubMan]

There's a Chinese takeaway on North King Street called Wong Kee which I always found amusing.

 

[Pique318]

Schindler's Lifts?

I always smiled at that name too and wondered which came first, them or the film.

 

[Ham Slicer]

Lino Richie

 

[Sunny]

The Alaskan tavern in the Simpson's movie. It was called Eski MOE'S

 

[MOB]

There was a law firm (in Sligo I think - possibly still there for all I know) which rejoiced in the name of Argue & Phibbs.

I like the (wholly fictitious) name for an American law firm - Dewey Gippem & Howe, also rendered as Dewey Cheetem...

 

[cole]

The hippy herb place in the Simpsons called Karmaceutical, also the sports shop, Sportacus.

 

[ClubMan]

Lino Richie

Try to keep up please...

Any other good names out there? Second on my list would be the Dublin carpet and linoleum retailer, .

 

[dereko1969]

the bookies in templeogue village called 'dead cert' that was next door to a funeral home and the pub known as the morgue, sadly it's a ladbrokes or paddy powers now

 

[Hoagy]

There's a Chinese takeaway on North King Street called Wong Kee which I always found amusing.

There's one in Bray called Soon Fatt

 

[S.L.F]

There's one in Bray called Soon Fatt

Blast I was about to do that one!

Across the road from Dundrum Mental Asylum (with its big high walls) the chinese takeaway used to call itself 'The Great Wall'.

 

[BillK]

There used to be an optician in Coventry called Hugh Seymour.

 

[Seagull]

There's an undertakers in South Africa called Human and Pitt.

 

[Diddles]

A scaffolding co in the UK called 'a bit on the side'
Cracked me up when I saw it

 

[Armada]

Chinese Takeaway in Waterford... Wok Right In..

 

[z105]

There is a shop in Wexford town called BJ Hore

 

[snuffle]

Chinese Takeaway in Waterford... Wok Right In..

Also in Waterford (but sadly is no longer) - the Golden Rod. Used to elicit sniggers from those of us with puerile minds.

One that always cracks me up when I see their vans is this crowd:
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Again the reason I find it funny is down to that puerile mind of mine.
and a final third for childish amusement - scaffolding company listing

 

[MandaC]

My Dad worked in BJ's video's and did not understand "the joke".

There is a Soon Fat in Kildare as well. Also "Angela's Rashers" in Ballyfermot.

Am sad to admit, that going back a few years ago, some of us in work used to call Lino Ritchie and say when they answered, we would say, "hello, is it me you are looking for?"

 

[Welfarite]

There was a law firm (in Sligo I think - possibly still there for all I know) which rejoiced in the name of Argue & Phibbs.

Yes, they're still in business (what does that tell us?). I remeber a sign a good few years ago m(after Watergate adn I was barely old enough to read ): "R. Nixon. Used cars"

 

[DavyJones]

There is a rubbish removal firm in London called Eminem and their solgan is "Lets talk rubbish"

 

[ClubMan]

Not a business name but there's a disused storage place across the road from my job with an old sign billing the former occupants as "Potatoe importers".