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Clever Puns for Business Names

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Posted by cowman on Sunday, March 27, 2011 9:44 PM

Vet in our area:  Dr Will Barry.

Have fun,

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Posted by paxton58 on Sunday, March 27, 2011 9:55 PM

Grain company:  Aginsta Grain

Cattle:  Nebraska Bullshippers

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Posted by teen steam fan on Sunday, March 27, 2011 10:29 PM

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Posted by A. Wallace on Sunday, March 27, 2011 11:35 PM

On my Goldfield & Hangtown RR, at Tonopah, there is the Bonebrake Manufracturing Co. At Hangtown, travelers can read the local paper, the Hangtown Daily Noose. On the Glendale, CA. RR Club, passers-by may note the sign at the entrance to the group behind a high fence, and admonition,

"Frosty Fanny Nudist Colony, Please do not feed the bares".

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Posted by steemtrayn on Monday, March 28, 2011 4:59 AM

Lou Boyle's Auto Service

Laura Norder Security

Ben Dover & C. Howitt Fields - Suppositories

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Posted by jfallon on Monday, March 28, 2011 6:58 AM

A. Wallace

On my Goldfield & Hangtown RR, at Tonopah, there is the Bonebrake Manufracturing Co. At Hangtown, travelers can read the local paper, the Hangtown Daily Noose. On the Glendale, CA. RR Club, passers-by may note the sign at the entrance to the group behind a high fence, and admonition,

"Frosty Fanny Nudist Colony, Please do not feed the bares".

There is a real nudist camp near Ivor, VA called White Tail Park. The name is more appropriate at the start of the season!Smile, Wink & Grin

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Posted by Forty Niner on Monday, March 28, 2011 7:42 AM

This is "not" a joke, back in the 1950's we had a state rep here named "Flavel Butts" and you guessed it, his campaign sign read "Butts for Congress".

Apparently it worked as he was re-elected. I would make a further commentary on this but then it becomes "political" I guess, but you have imaginations of your own.

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Posted by Mike Kieran on Monday, March 28, 2011 8:09 AM

A friend of mine, Vinny Blood (It's his real name, honest) had a son who became a doctor. Yes, Dr. Blood.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Monday, March 28, 2011 8:12 AM

Not businesses, but a village on my layout is named "Valley Heights" and the waterfall is called "Standing Falls".

GARRY

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Posted by Mike Kieran on Monday, March 28, 2011 8:17 AM

Let's not forget the Franklin & South Manchester's Y.B. Fardy - makers of Gastorex.

I'm planning on using the R.U. Ready Mix Co. and the Rahtin Fish Company on my layout.

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Posted by dehusman on Monday, March 28, 2011 9:39 AM

In Norristown, PA there was a real company called the "Erection Tool Co."

There was also a warehousing company, "A. Duie Pyle"

Some "joke"  ones I've always wanted to include:

Bemis-Eppscotti Enterprises

Moh's Scale Co.

Brinnell Hard Candy

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Posted by DigitalGriffin on Monday, March 28, 2011 9:53 AM

Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions

Modeling C&O transition era and steel industries There's Nothing Like Big Steam!

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Posted by Milepost 266.2 on Monday, March 28, 2011 10:03 AM

Mike Kieran

A friend of mine, Vinny Blood (It's his real name, honest) had a son who became a doctor. Yes, Dr. Blood.

 

My GP is Dr. Paine, and there's a clipping floating around the web of an actual Dr. Frankenstein.

I usually don't like puns on signs.  I have a very low tolerance for cornpone and slapstick, preferring dry and subtle humor.  I'd prefer something that only one person out of a thousand will recognize.

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Posted by Mike Kieran on Monday, March 28, 2011 10:33 AM

There was a doctor who worked in a NYC Hospital whose name was Dr. Frank N. Stein. I guess his parents had a sense of humor and luckily, so did he.

I think taht Frank N. Stein was also the name of a fabricator company on Matt Chibbaro's Norwest Terminal Railroad.

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Posted by Milepost 266.2 on Monday, March 28, 2011 10:44 AM

Mike Kieran

There was a doctor who worked in a NYC Hospital whose name was Dr. Frank N. Stein. I guess his parents had a sense of humor and luckily, so did he.

 

There's an attorney in West Virginia named Edgar Allen Poe.  Junior.  Someone definitely has a good sense of humor there.

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Posted by cmrproducts on Monday, March 28, 2011 10:50 AM

Forever Remodeling - Owner - Al B Forever!

Sign on the Door -

If you want it done RIGHT

It takes FOREVER!

Al's helpers:

B. Z. Werkin - his wife Wanda B. Werkin

Ben Werkin - his wife Estelle (Stell) Werkin

Barry (Bear) Lee Werkin

Otto B. Werkin

Will B. Werkin

Harley Werkin

 

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Posted by pike-62 on Monday, March 28, 2011 11:12 AM

Seymour Butts      proctologist

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In Buffalo Ny there is a funeral home named Amigone Funeral Home

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Posted by yougottawanta on Monday, March 28, 2011 11:24 AM

Telling my age here , but I believe Abbott and Costella had a skit with Lawyers whose company name was " Dewey Cheatam  and Howe" Locally there is a portable toilet company thats name is "Dons Johns"

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Posted by Mike Kieran on Monday, March 28, 2011 11:36 AM

yougottawanta

Telling my age here , but I believe Abbott and Costella had a skit with Lawyers whose company name was " Dewey Cheatam  and Howe" Locally there is a portable toilet company thats name is "Dons Johns"

And if anyone asks about Doh's Johns, you didn't hear nuttin', you got it? Capisce?

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Posted by andrechapelon on Monday, March 28, 2011 11:39 AM

pike-62
Seymour Butts      proctologist
I.P. Freely       Commodes
In Buffalo Ny there is a funeral home named Amigone Funeral Home

In Monterey, CA, there's a hair salon called "Curl Up and Dye". There's also one with the same name in Belmont, ME.

Don't remember the name of the company, but several years ago, I saw an electrician's truck with the slogan "Let Us Get Into Your Shorts".

Andre

 

It's really kind of hard to support your local hobby shop when the nearest hobby shop that's worth the name is a 150 mile roundtrip.
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Posted by last mountain & eastern hogger on Monday, March 28, 2011 11:42 AM

Whistling

Here is my Undertaker,  I.M. STIFF.    "You stab 'em, I'll slab 'em"

Then we have a Roto Rooter guy here in town who's slogan is " In our business a Flush is better than a Full House".

Johnboy out.......................................

 

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Monday, March 28, 2011 12:09 PM

As a young woman, my Mom worked for a company called Ketcham and Cheatham, and we had a dentist in town named Dr. Perlpuller.  A toilet-seat manufacturer advertised his product as being "Tops for Bottoms."  Once again, there's a prototype for everything.

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Posted by markpierce on Monday, March 28, 2011 2:02 PM

Sounds better if you pronounce it in Spanish (appropriate too as the bank is in South America).

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Posted by hornblower on Monday, March 28, 2011 5:26 PM

I can't remember the actual name of the company, but my former boss and I once spotted a septic pumper truck with the slogan, "You're Crap Is Our Bread 'n Butter."  We laughed for hours!

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Posted by G Paine on Monday, March 28, 2011 5:57 PM

There was a pipe filttings manufacturer in Cambridge, MA called Cambridge Nipple

Sheepscott Scale Products has decal sheets for trucks that include the following:

Knotts Lumber
Rock Bottom Wholesale Fish
Justin Case Medical Supplies
Iron Bladder Boiler WOrks
Buster Keaton Movers
Stan & Ollie Taxi
Jere E. Picker Auction House
Over the Hill Motor Transport
Wripe & Flye Live Bait
Roxanne Debris Drilling & Blasting
Harry C Crooker Construction (this is a real company)

George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch 

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Posted by P&Slocal on Monday, March 28, 2011 6:31 PM

I am naming a machine manufacturing company after the lumber edger I ran for years. Can't remember what company actually made it, but after a week of running it, I painted the makers names the same color as the machine and then in yellow painted "P. Sochiet Machine Co." I hated that dang thing!

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 6:34 AM

For us old comic fans, I put the R Crumb Trucking Company on my layout.

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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Posted by Fan Of Shortlines on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 8:35 AM
How about Soylent Green Foods.
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Posted by Great Western Rwy fan on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 8:37 AM

AltonFan

 

 andrechapelon:

 

 

2. Jim Findley's Kimchi Gas Works (Findley spent some time in Korea, Kimchi is a Korean dish or rather a variety of Korean dishes)

 

 

For those who do not know, kimchi is spicy, pickled cabbage.  You can understand why the name is appropriate for a gas works...

Yeah and Kimchi Stinks!! When they opened the door of the Aircraft I was on upon landing in Seoul S. Korea the smell hits You right away,Everywhere I went I could smell Kimchi. Could never get past the smell to try it though.

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Posted by Great Western Rwy fan on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 8:45 AM

Here's one. I scratch built this. The C.R. Krack Plumbing Supply Company..

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