#39747
08/28/2001 1:26 AM
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Max, I am joining you in your stroke-of-genius endeavor to bring levity back to the board, though not in as entertaining a way as you did. When my husband called to give me the name of the motel he was staying at, I somehow thought he said he was staying at the "Scurry Inn". Now, that gave rise to thinking of all kinds of possible scenarios--his was that it would become a real "roach motel". So then I thought that we might get a kick out of making up names for motels, or listing some strange ones we have actually seen. Please include scenarios if you are so inclined! 
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#39748
08/28/2001 3:16 AM
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Real names (I think):
All Tucked Inn
Atlasta Motel
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#39749
08/28/2001 12:47 PM
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I have heard it claimed that there really *is a Notel Motel in Tucson, AZ.
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#39750
08/28/2001 5:00 PM
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Notel Motel
and "motel" spelled backwards is ...
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#39751
08/28/2001 5:11 PM
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Well, "Notel Motel" spelled backwards is Let omlet on. Make of that what you will...
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#39752
08/28/2001 5:12 PM
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Similarly, Frederick's is rumored to be marketing a new bra called the "embargo."
TEd
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#39753
08/28/2001 5:28 PM
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It's also a boat owned by Bill and Ruth Liptak of the Chagrin Lagoons Amateur Radio Association. Oh, and the NoTel Motel in Tucson ( http://phoenix.bcentral.com/phoenix/stories/2000/09/18/newscolumn5.html) is called that because it doesn't have any telephones. Yeah, right
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#39754
08/28/2001 9:16 PM
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I once stayed at The Generic Motel somewhere near Newbury in the land of the Yoopers (Upper Penninsula of Michigan). The sign outside was a barcode on a plain white sign. It was cheap but I was bothered by a smell reminiscent of dirty diaper stashed under the floorboards. Don't know if that was what it was or where it was.
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#39755
08/28/2001 9:53 PM
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It was cheap but I was bothered by a smell reminiscent of dirty diaper stashed under the floorboards.Yes, so you've described half the motels in the US. Which one, in particular, are you complaining about?  Actually, we saw very few really original motel names on our travels. There were two motels, side by side, on a business loop somewhere with the names "Inter Motel" and "State Motel", but I'm picking that the owners hadn't colluded to come up with the "InterState" motel consortium. They were both fleapits and we stayed somewhere else -- although it was probably just as bad as they were! Perhaps, Jackie, rather than unusual names, you should have started a thread on motels with unusual business activities. If you have a competition, I bet Sandra and I would win with our entry from Evansville, Indiana ...
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#39756
08/29/2001 12:36 AM
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My favorite is from a different type of resting place - whenever I visit my cousin in Buffalo, the AMIGONE Funeral Home gives me pause.
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#39757
08/29/2001 1:36 AM
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One of the local businesses -- owned by a friend, in fact -- is The Skinner Funeral Home.
Ewwwwwwww.
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#39758
08/29/2001 2:16 AM
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We used to have a funeral parlor in a town named Cape May Court House, NJ, called the Lively Funeral Home!
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#39759
08/29/2001 2:37 AM
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Frederick's is rumored to be marketing a new bra called the "embargo."
Oh, Ted, I'll go bust trying to keep abreast of your comments! Well, at least they're uplifting.
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#39760
08/29/2001 2:41 AM
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When I was going to school in San Diego lo these many years ago, there was a mortuary called The Goodbody Mortuary. And in Los Angeles there was Dunniway and Fitch. Now if Dunniway had dumped Fitch and joined with Goodbody, they could have had something!
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#39761
08/29/2001 7:48 AM
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There is a cemetery in a town of south-eastern Spain called "Our Lord of Good Health Cemetery".
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#39762
08/30/2001 1:21 PM
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Here in Burlington, Vermont there is a little motel called the "Pacific View Motel." No, the Green Mountains are not high to afford a view clear across the continent, but rather the motel is next to a Pacific Gas Station.
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08/30/2001 1:27 PM
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One of the two Funeral Homes in Prattville, Alabama is actually called 'Ridout Funeral Home'. I presume it's a family name and yes, it is pronounced 'Ride Out'.
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#39764
08/30/2001 1:40 PM
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"Pacific View Motel."
More like Pathetic View Motel, eh.
'Ridout Funeral Home'
A surprising amount of people DO claim that white horses escort those dying to the 'other side'. :-)
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#39765
08/30/2001 2:46 PM
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I've mentioned this before, I'm sure, but it bears repeating:
In Ithaca we have a Bangs Funeral Home. Not so noteworthy in itself, but it is right next door to Bangs Ambulance Service.
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#39766
08/30/2001 3:09 PM
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Is there a Bangs Body Shop to complete the set?
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#39767
08/30/2001 3:56 PM
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Oh my gosh, you-all---these have had me laughing out loud! Keeping abreast of things in the bra industry! Names of funeral homes and cemeteries--wonderful! "Our Lord of Good Health" CEMETERY??? Not to insult your translation capabilities, Marianna, but. That one is simply unbelievable!  Pathetic View motel, indeed, and Bangs' Body Shop? HA!
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#39768
08/30/2001 5:16 PM
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The Reste (accent aigu on the secone "e") Motel used to be (maybe still is) found on route 95 in southern Virginia.
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#39769
08/30/2001 5:24 PM
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WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE AHEAD: I believe there was a short story the basis of which a funeral home next to a delicatessen.
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#39770
08/31/2001 3:40 PM
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I can't believe that I forgot this the other day, but Selma Alabama has a Funeral Home called 'Dunn Funeral Home'.
Laughter is all around us...
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#39771
08/31/2001 3:43 PM
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I'm no longer a stranger!!!!!!! Newbie is pretty cool. Makes me think of the nerdie kids on Sixteen Candles that wore the caving lights on their heads to a party. Anyone else remember that?
I hope to be an addict one day.
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#39772
08/31/2001 6:21 PM
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Congratulations! May I assume ChemEng1992 has been duly informed of the usual $50 charge now due from her (to defray expenses of the board), upon her promotion?
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#39773
08/31/2001 6:49 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Congrats, Chemeng, on your becoming. But: you're a newbie engineer and you are calling kids with lights nerdies? What is the hierarchy for nerds, dorks, dweebs, duffises, geeks, and such? Anybody know?
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#39774
08/31/2001 7:17 PM
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Sparteye, I'd be careful with the engineer comments since the term 'old' comes up whenever you post.
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#39775
08/31/2001 11:55 PM
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Motel the Tailor, the character in "Fiddler on the Roof" who I portrayed twice on stage, 20 years apart. (I never looked my age ). Motel in this case is pronounced "muttle". Congrats on your new newbie, Chemeng! But enjoy it while it lasts. You know what they say, "first you're a newbie, then you're an addict." Where does the time go? And speaking of odd names...we once had a doctor in this area named Dr. Kill! I'm not making this up...and his practice never really got off the ground. I wonder why? Hope he changed his name wherever he set-up again! Sheesh! Dr. Bill's gotta be howling at this one!
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#39776
09/01/2001 12:36 AM
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.we once had a doctor in this area named Dr. Kill!
I mentioned this on another thread some time back, but it fits here too: In Oregon City, Oregon some years ago, Dr. Chitty was in practice with Dr Bangs. Now if only their kids had joined them they would have had the Chitty Chitty Bangs Bangs Clinic. Also, I know a surgeon named Dr Cutter. And in Vancouver, Washington, there's a psychiatrist named Dr Mecouch. Very Freudian, eh?
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#39777
09/01/2001 1:03 AM
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I just did a goofy kinda net search and found that in Toronto there's a Dr Stubbs, whose specialty is penis elongation. Top that!
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#39778
09/01/2001 2:11 AM
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Dr. StubbsTop that!!? NOOO WAY! Great, Geoff! I'm rollllling! LOL Plus!
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#39779
09/01/2001 12:39 PM
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I might be able to top that, but not off the top of my head  . When my daughter was born, her pediatricians were Dr. Scarey and Dr. Lamb. They played good Doc, bad Doc.
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#39780
09/01/2001 1:21 PM
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Geoff notes that in Toronto there's a Dr Stubbs, whose specialty is penis elongationSuperb, Geoff -- but shouldn't you have posted that in the thread for "Maximizxing Value"?
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09/01/2001 1:37 PM
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Dr Stubbs, whose specialty is penis elongation
--- shouldn't you have posted that in the thread for "Maximizxing Value"?You, as a lawyer, are trained to be more logical than I. Also, I suppose you're more cock-sure of yourself. (Now there's an expression I don't hear much anymore; is it common anywhere these days?) Now, more on-thread, there's a town here in Oregon named Boring. Years ago, as one entered town, one was greeted with a sign for the Boring Gospel Hall. Ah, truth in advertising!
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09/01/2001 1:57 PM
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Well said, Geoff; you have chosen the right place for this subject, and have properly put me in my place. -- Keiva
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#39783
09/01/2001 2:05 PM
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>I just did a goofy kinda net search and found that in Toronto there's a Dr Stubbs, whose specialty is penis elongation. Top that!
Enough of the inappropriate posts. This is rubbing me the wrong way!!! (laughing until I cry emoticon)
TEd
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#39784
09/01/2001 3:06 PM
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Just don't let him move to Bend, Oregon!
I can see his slogan now: An inch is as good as a smile!
I would guess his chief assistant is Won Hung Lo.
Perhaps there should be a series of movies made about him:
With Six You Get Eggroll
Eight is Enough
A Pack of Tips Now
From Here to Eternity
The Longest Yard
Richard II
Great Expectations
The Tamer of the Shrew
Holmes is the Hunter
Edward Scissorglands
Das a BOOT!
Dear Slayer
8 1/2
The Fresh Connection
For a Few Inches More
All Night Long
The Great White Hope
Stuart Not So Little
Studs Longagain
The Son also Rises
Memphis Belle Ringer
A Man Called Horse
The Seven Ups
Shaft
I Married a Monster from OUter Space
10
Five to Nine
The Sweet Ride
Swing Time
Talk of the Town
Tall in the Saddle
Tenner is the Night
Catch 22
Penis from Heaven
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
The Dirty Dozen
Tortilla Flattener
Tower of London
You CAN Have Everything
Without You I'm Nothing
When Willie Comes Marching Home
Howard's End
What's Up Doc?
What Price Glory?
Remodeling Her Husband
The Man with the Golden Armload
The Proud Peter of Seduction
The Club
A Cockwork Orange
A Dear and Pleasant Stranger
Falstaff
Show Gun
Bat 21
At Last Long Love
Apollo 13
Ten Tall Men
Ten not so Little Indians
This Above All
Thunderball
Titanic
Persaonal Best
Someone has GOT to stop me! I'm beginning to fear for my sanity!
TEd
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#39785
09/01/2001 7:18 PM
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Just don't let him move to Bend, Oregon!
No, no, tED, he straightens 'em out! He should live in Farewell Bend. (Yes, there IS such a place)
Oh, you forgot to mention the movie, The Name of The Hose
'S Weenie Todd
the old soap opera, The Hung and The Restless
Pee T 109
Amistud
Then there's that high-priced dildoe, Le Coq D'or
Alas, Dr Stubbs' given name is Robert, not Richard. It would be adding insult to injury to Bob Stubbs, now wouldn't it?
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#39786
09/01/2001 9:00 PM
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Ted, how'd we both overlook the most obvious of all - Free Willie? And Consuelo, there's a very well-known children's writer named Richard Scarry. Spelled differently, but pronounced the same as your doctor. Doctors Carver, Cutter, and Hacker to triage...
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