Funny companies

[DonkeyOte]

I'm not sure if this is against form rules etc but I did <b>genuinely</b> have male Maths teacher called Bates and I went to a posh-(ish) school so I'll leave you to work it out why it seemed so very amusing at the time...

 

[Patience]

Hampshire is to the West of Surrey - noxious clouds resulting from clumsy chemists is the root of Bryony's comment (I believe).

I seem to remember sugar mixed with potassium iodate and then ignited produced a pleasing green cloud...

You are correct. I was being a bit obscure.

 

[xyzabc198]

You are correct. I was being a bit obscure.

Sorry I get it now, I had forgotten about the spilling chemist by the time I had read your post

 

[Patience]

Cos of course you are local to the area in question, aren't you? ALthough I am in London now I grew up in Merrow, by Guildford.

 

[xyzabc198]

I am indeed, bordon is in hampshire, about an hour (on train) from Guildford, pretty much next door to peterfield and liphook

 

[SydneyGeek]

Probably not really companies but they would be good if they were

Cook, Books & Hyde - Accountants
Dolittle and Dalley - Efficiency consultants
Howe, Dewey, Cheatem & Wynn - attornies
Levin N. Sinn - Vicar
Claude McCann - Lion Tamer
Rex Carr's - Driving Instructor

Human & Pitt -- Funeral directors (this was real)

Denis

 

[Lewiy]

We used to have a Chinese take-away in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comffice:smarttags" /><st1lace w:st="on">Poole</st1lace> (recently expanded into by an off-licence). It didn’t have a funny name in itself – “The China Palace”, however, everyone from the <st1lace w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1lace> here will surely be aware that take-away menus, etc. are notorious for their poor spelling and inconsistencies. Oddly, The China Palace menu was absolutely fine, however, when they had the sign done for the front of the building, they clearly didn’t notice that there was a letter missing, as the sign proudly stated:
“The <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">China Place</st1:address></st1:Street>”

 

[Lewiy]

And I can’t leave this thread without pointing you all towards this:
http://rahoi.com/2006/03/may-i-take-your-order/
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It’s possibly the funniest thing I’ve EVER seen on the internet, it has me in tears of laughter every time I read it!!

 

[xyzabc198]

And I can’t leave this thread without pointing you all towards this:
http://rahoi.com/2006/03/may-i-take-your-order/
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It’s possibly the funniest thing I’ve EVER seen on the internet, it has me in tears of laughter every time I read it!!

I nearly cried too

 

[riaz]

Probably not really companies but they would be good if they were

Howe, Dewey, Cheatem & Wynn - attornies

Sue, Grabbit and Runn?