business names

[low_delta]

[Poll #1040324]

Comments

[ravengirl.livejournal.com]

i once saw a gyno named "goldfinger". i kid you not.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Did he live up to his name? Ha ha! Ew.

[marswalker.livejournal.com]

Truth in advertising and all, shouldn't it have been "Coldfinger"?

[lonita.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't, but not because it's too weird for me (it's not, it's right up my alley), but I suspect it would make a lot of the customers twitchy and potentially offended.

[rivendweller.livejournal.com]

Yeah, no.

My maiden name? Breshears. I was a skinny, flat-chested teenage girl. Use your imagination. Mortification was my middle name. I am generally painfully unamused with "last name word games."

;-)

[penpusher.livejournal.com]

Actually, though, didn't people derive their names from their line of work in many cases throughout history? Like you would have a barber named "Shearer" for example, or a vintner named "Boozer?"

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Maybe this guy was dying to get my business?

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

I once drove by a dentist's office and his name was Dr. Payne.

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

My dentist in HS was Dr. Pain.. he live next door to us.. I loved him dearly as a man, but he was a CRAP dentist!

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

Oh that's even better. Spelled out as PAIN.

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

:)

[marswalker.livejournal.com]

The maxilofacial surgeon who removed many of my teeth (including the wisdoms) was... Richard Petty.

Not the race car driver. But... his father!

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

You've got to be kidding.
That's so weird. Could he only remove teeth by rotating them to the left?
Was he fast?
Did he have to make a pit stop?

[marswalker.livejournal.com]

Not kidding at all.

They lived about a mile up the hill from us.

He had a lot of chrome stuff in the exam room, and air powered tools...

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

When he was working on your teeth, did the smell of gasoline and burned rubber waft?
Did he have a bunch of people rush you and do all of the jobs all at once?
Did they jack up the chair you were in?

[marswalker.livejournal.com]

No... just Novocain and burning teeth. And pliers.

The chair did all the dental things - up, down, tilt, all that good stuff.

I don't know how he feels about racing though, he only ever talked to me about the teeth he was about to pull.

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

Huh. He was the boring one in the family.

[marswalker.livejournal.com]

Just like that kid in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer...

"I want to be a Dentist!"

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

I work in a FH.. and my name is Raven. Few ask for my last name after that. Yeah, I WOULD use it... but only because it is my name, not for the "interpretation" of the other folk.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

"Hi, thank you for calling Raven's House of the Dead. How may I help you?"

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

*caw* NEVERMORE! *flaps* NEVERMORE! *caw*

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

"Ms Dyer's mortuary and carnival funhouse...taxidermy a speciality"!!

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Did you say "mortuary and carnal funhouse"?

[marswalker.livejournal.com]

Lol...

Dyer's Dead

That could work.