Tacky names, add your own

[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

[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....

[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

[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.

[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."

[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?

[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."

[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

[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).

[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