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Subject:Re: Raunchy business names From:Ad absurdum per aspera <JTCHEW -at- LBL -dot- GOV> Date:Thu, 11 Aug 1994 23:02:21 GMT
...and then there's Superior Erections, which, as I recall, is
or was on the west side of Highway 37 between Vallejo and Napa.
("Erection" is the putting-up of steel frameworks, a term that
undoubtedly pleases the hardhats no end.)
My favorite slogan actually wasn't raunchy at all: a brake
shop in Norcross, GA whose motto was "We'll stand in front
of our work."
Note followups, as we're veering a bit off course here...
Joe
"The pallid pimp of the dead-line/The enervate of the pen" -Robert Service
