Pictures From Our Readers: Ill-Advised Business Names

The response to our second reader photo challenge was great, and we got a ton of hilarious submissions! We're posting most of them here, and all of them on our Flickr page. Enjoy!

Anatomically-inclined business names
We had so many submissions in this category, we were actually able to organize them by body part:

We received two pictures of Massachusetts liquor stores named "Bunghole," from Cody (above, in Peabody) and Sabrina (below, in Salem). According to Wikipedia, "a bunghole is a hole bored in a liquid-tight barrel," though it's been used as naughty slang since at least the 13th century (famously making an appearance in Dante's Inferno).

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morning_wood.jpg /

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get_gas.jpg /

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tanning.jpg /

tom-raper.jpg /

brick-furniture.jpg /

GUNSAMMOBBQ.jpg /

Poughkeepsie_NY_Yeung_Ho_II.jpg /

YumMee.jpg /

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Just plain odd
There's really no other way to classify these. What were they thinking?

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On-purpose weird business names
When you have no marketing budget, sometimes the best way to get the word out about your business is by giving it a ridiculous name. We're pretty sure that's what happened to these fine establishments.