Companies w misleading names

Companies w misleading names

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Super Sonic

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56 months

Sunday 5th May
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Are there any companies near you whose names imply that they do something different to what they actually do do?
Near me we have...
Rhino Removals ("hello, there's a rhino in my living room")
Compass Cleaning ("hello, my compass is dirty")
Sky Cleaning ("hello, the sky's looking a bit dirty")
Hockney Surfacing ("hellow, my Hockney painting is underwater")
And along the coast, Beaver tool hire ( you can make up your own joke!)

Super Sonic

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56 months

Sunday 5th May
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Stick Legs said:
Rexquote.

No one there called Rex & they had a price list.



One of those off the self companies I think.

Mrs. used to work there. They made rail
Convversions for diggers.
(Hello, can you tell me what Rex said)

Super Sonic

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Monday 6th May
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droopsnoot said:
There's one fairly near me called "Corkscrew Hire", which I've always thought is a pretty niche market to be in. There's another one similar, but annoyingly I can't remember the name.
"Hello, I've got a bottle of wine but can't get it open"
(I'm assuming they don't actually hire out corkscrews?)

Super Sonic

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Monday 6th May
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Missy Charm said:
'Off the self companies'? Do you mean the firm only exists in the fevered imagination of a popular, London-dwelling, sesquipedalian lad-lit novelist, sometime newspaper columnist and miserabilist psychogeographer?

Somewhat near me is a shop called 'Waterstones'. They sell neither water nor stones, which is disappointing.
Lol there's a shop near me called 'the smoking gun'. I went in and ask if they sold tobacco and she said no but actually looked embarrassed so I asked if they sold guns. They sell vapes.