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Krazy Kumpanies

If you have a favourite crazy company name, punny or funny, here’s a place where you could share it with the rest of us…

There’s an old joke about a bunch of kids eating in the school lunchroom where ‘stew’ supposedly is the main course. Suddenly in back of the lunchroom one kid leaps to his feet, his fork held high in the air as gleefully he exclaims out loud, “I’ve got the meat!”: IGOTTA MEAT: Fowl Beef and Pork.

Your turn. :smiley:

Dedman’s Coffins

http://www.shitcreekpaddleshop.com/

There’s a local funeral home in Buffalo called ‘Amigone’ (Am I gone?)

Canwe, Cheatum, and Howe Public Accountants

Graves Funeral Home

-Kevin.

And then there is the law firm of Dewey, Cheetum & Howe. At ECLSTS I have seen the Sam & Ella’s diner on the Potomac Valley Club’s layout.

I am toying with the idea of having a phrendo mine on my Middle Earth railroad, as well as the required mithril mine. I may even add a pallo mine. :wink:

Have fun,

dieseldude said:
There's a local funeral home in Buffalo called 'Amigone' (Am I gone?) -Kevin.
I grew up less than a half mile from that funeral home :)

My next industry to get signage is as a result of some left over laser cut aluminum letters from a law firm retiring a partner. It’s not his name, but with the letters I can spell F. HART I believe it will be a gas house :slight_smile:

Hey Jon;

Many years ago my mother went to the horse races at Manada Hill, PA. One flamboyant race horse owner had actually named their horse “Hoof-Hearted!” :lol: (Just try saying the name fast, like the race announcer, and you will get the idea.)

Best,
David Meashey

Jackie Markling has a comedy album titled “Hoof Hearted, I Smelt it” :slight_smile:

When in HO I kitbashed a business called Glusniph Chemical Co. It was the era where local pea brains would squeeze plastic glue into a paper bag to inhale it.

Ohhhhh boy, this has been one of my favorite pastimes.

On our Christmas layout…

 the Bad Boy Coal Mine (supplying the North Pole with all their coal needs). 
 a container of Prozac on a Depressed Center Flatcar...

On our Delaware Large Scalers modular layout…

 a man walking out of an outhouse with toilet paper stuck to the bottom of his shoe
 Liekies Dry Storage...
 Insurance Broker/The offices of Eubeen Hadd...
 the Sildenafil Citrate (Viagra) Tank car Loading Platform (with a light blue tank car that has acquired a vertical clearance problem after being loaded), the loading facilities are tanks that hold the secret formula...Fix-a-Flat and Minwax's Wood Hardener, the car has USEX reporting marks - Upright Shippers Express, and is stenciled "This end up", "May exceed maximum vertical clearance", and "Handle with care")...

And then my old HO model railroad club…

 Fuller Bra Company (making mountains out of mole hills since 1934)...
 and finally the Peking Moon Restaurant (picture of cat in a full moon, Chinese writing that loosely translates to "Cat, the other white meat")

But my favorite one would have to be what happened when our layout was set up last October at a train show here in nearby Elkton, Md. A mother in her mid 30’s was walking around with her 10 year old son, Johnny. Mom stopped to look at the Hooker Chemicals tank car which had a scantily clad lady perched atop the tank car and a man in a purple leisure suit and a wide brimmed hat rimmed with fur standing near her. The mom called out, “Johnny, did you see the people on this train?”

Johnny replied from about 20 feet away and at almost the top of his lungs, “I KNOW MOM, SHE’S A HOOKER!!!”

It was at that moment that the mother “got” the joke, and quickly grabbed Johnny and left the train show with her face beet red.

Apologies to all, I am an equal opportunity offender.

Keith

I was starting a list but it just kept growing, these are REAL names BTW:

Curl Up and Dye hair salon, various locals, thanks the the movie Blues Brothers
Luft-waffles waffle house, Seattle
Dirty Hoe gardening center, San Francisco
Lord of the Fries fast food, London
Master Baiter’s Sportfishing and Tackle, Port of Vallarta
Juan More Taco fast food, Fremont, Ca
Vinyl Resting Place 2nd hand record shop in Croydon, UK
Lee King Plumbing, UK plumber
Know Knew Books, used Book Store, Palo Alto, CA
The Codfather, fish and chip shops UK
Salt and Battery, Fish and Chips, Brisbane, Australia
A Den of Antiquities, Antiques Store, Ashville, North Carolina
Hard Wok Cafe, Chinese Take Away, various
Wok and Roll, chinese sushi restaraunt, various
Drapes and Sew Much More, Toronto
Norman D Landing, Militaria shop in the UK

I’m sure there are lots more

Oh, and one I always wanted to do…

Frickens Lumber Company

"When someone on the jobsite says, “Dangit, we need more Fricken 2x4s”, we are the place to go. Frickens Lumber Company.

Dave Meashey said:
...named their horse "Hoof-Hearted!" ...
Buddy named his sailboat "Passing Wind". There's a host of gags and puns at a yacht club.

Back to company names for the old model Railroad, at the last show I attended there was a club with a point to point line. Out beyond the terminus, where the track stopped, was a small factory called Endoline Industries. Model rails seem to be pretty darn good at this lark.

I have a factory labelled Bygge & Normiss (Big Enormous). It could be a tool and die works, but I’m not saying…

I have an iron smelter called Hawter & Hadees.

I stole the name “Rodden Meats” from someone or other. My apologies if I get caught. Around the old L&S we do a rollicking trade in the meat industry. Cattlyn and Bergurzout is another…

One of the big cattle dealers hereabouts is Russell N. Sellem.

Solyent Grain

Sam and Ella’s Poultry Farm

Garden of Eatin’ (restaurant)

My favorite from The Simpsons: I Can’t Believe It’s A Law Firm.

As a kid, when I first read about the late John Allen’s “Gorre & Dapheted” legendary model railroad in MR, I wondered what that meant, 'cause it sounded like Gory and Defeated, which made no sense at all. Turns out, that’s exactly what it meant. Go figure.

As for company names, I’ve run a bunch of 'em past the super (my wife) but none of them pass muster, so I guess they’ll never be on one of my buildings. But since ya mentioned it–

For a railroad: “Lake Flaccid and Viagara Falls”

For a factory: “Loos Tools,” and my really subtle, inside joke name, which no one has figured out yet, “Renzo’s Pianos.”

Ray’s ‘The Simpsons’ reference made me remember my favorite from that show; Blood Bath and Beyond, the local gunshop.

I just checked the thread to be sure this was not included. One HO layout had a meat packing plant named “Cornfield Meat Company.” This was a pun on the railroad jargon “cornfield meet,” a term used to describe a head on collision of two trains.

Then there was the riddle concerning two trains headed towards each other on single track line. One train has a Norwegian engineer; the other train’s engineer is drunk. Why won’t they collide?

Because: “Norse is Norse, and Souse is Souse, and never the twain shall meet!”

Have Fun,
David Meashey

Dave: I guess by now everybody has heard of the real cornfield meet that occurred last week. Really in a cornfield, too, on the Texlahoma border somewhere… Oh, it made the Toronto News alright…

Love those punny names folks have been posting here. Long time ago when I was a teenager and still in HO my little sister gave me a name for my logging outfit, I loved it and I’ve kept it ever since. The Big Twig Timber Company.

Ray: Your post set the wheels in motion, how about: Otto Beah Law Firm…