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#39747 08/28/01 01:26 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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Real names (I think):

All Tucked Inn
Atlasta Motel


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I have heard it claimed that there really *is a Notel Motel in Tucson, AZ.


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Notel Motel
and "motel" spelled backwards is ...


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Well, "Notel Motel" spelled backwards is Let omlet on. Make of that what you will...


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Similarly, Frederick's is rumored to be marketing a new bra called the "embargo."



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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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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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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 ...



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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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One of the local businesses -- owned by a friend, in fact -- is The Skinner Funeral Home.





Ewwwwwwww.


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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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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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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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There is a cemetery in a town of south-eastern Spain called "Our Lord of Good Health Cemetery".



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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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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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"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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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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Is there a Bangs Body Shop to complete the set?


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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sparteye, I'd be careful with the engineer comments since the term 'old' comes up whenever you post.


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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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.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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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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Dr. Stubbs

Top that!!? NOOO WAY! Great, Geoff! I'm rollllling! LOL Plus!


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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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Geoff notes that in Toronto there's a Dr Stubbs, whose specialty is penis elongation

Superb, Geoff -- but shouldn't you have posted that in the thread for "Maximizxing Value"?


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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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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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>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)



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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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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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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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Okay, Geoff, since you brought it up I guess somebody has to do it. So let me make the requisite mention of the famed Amish enclaves in Lancaster, PA...Intercourse and Bird-in-Hand! (there's a few more, but I'd have to look 'em up)

And I remember that William Least Heat Moon in his incredible travelogue, Blue Highways, mentions a little town he came across in Tennessee (I believe) called Nameless!


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well, i think i rather live in Nameless TN, than some other towns.. take pity on all the folks of Farmingdale, NY-- who are least better off than the residents of Hicksville NY. and New England offers Dummerston VT, and Dummer NH.

these name are family names made into place names.. some members of Hicks family still live in the area, they are Hicks from Hicksville! and Dummer is named for a Lt. Governer, but they never lived in the town.. imaging being John Dummer, from Dummerston!


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imagine being John Dummer, from Dummerston

Three-plus centuries ago a Mr. Dummer (Benjamin Dummer, I believe) founded a school which has now become a major university. It is fortunate that a few decade later, another gentleman made a fairly major contribution to the school, whereupon the school was re-named after that donor.
Otherwise, Yale University would now be Dummer University.


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There is a prestigious private (tuition paid) high school in northeast Massachusets named after the Lt. Gov.:
Governor Dummer Academy.


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I know of a Dr. Bone who is principal investigator in clinical studies of osteoporosis.


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Lest we forget :
Dew Drop Inn for a motel, Dun Workin' for a retirement domicile; and the name of dingy in the comic strip "Shoe"
"Assignment" -- so that the newspaper's receptionist could say, in truth, that the Editor was not available because he was out on "Assignment." (grin-e)


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I was taught reproductive medicine by a Dr Breed

(Submitted as evidence: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/site-bin/ppldisplay.pl?id=A/B/35743-BREED).

From memory we also have a Dr Butcher in Orthopaedics and a Dr Kneebone who specialises in gait disturbance.

The stop-start method of delaying orgasm/ejaculation was developed by Dr Semans.


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...and doc comfort specializes in ?


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And how can we forget the inventor of the modern flush toilet, the immortal Thomas Crapper. and yes, I know that old chestnut is apocryphal, and therefore of course unlike all else posted here.


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wow asks ...and doc comfort specializes in ?

As the name suggests, alcohol addiction.

In truth, intending to specialise in neurology, psychiatry, or a hybrid of the two.


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...and doc comfort specializes in ?

Don't forget that Alex Comfort wrote the book, The Joy of Sex, which had a seminal influence in its day.


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In reply to:

take pity on all the folks of Farmingdale, NY


Am I missing something here? Seems a perfectly unobjectionable name to me.

Bingley



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doc comfort say he is : In truth, intending to specialise in neurology, psychiatry, or a hybrid of the two.


Heavens to Betsy! Miracles do happen. A doctor who would treat a person with dis-ease rather than just the dis-ease!
What will they ever come up with next?

Aside : a sign I'd like to see in every Doctor's office :
"The absence of disease is not the same as good health."
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My wife, who teaches nursing, has long been dissatisfied with the typical test-questions which refer to patients as "Mr. X, age 72" or "Miss Z, age 27", etc.

She instead uses made-up names keyed to the medical problem involved. Thus, the patient suffering from effects of alcoholism is the noted British peer, Sir Osis. The female VD patient is Lucinda Streets. More technically-named patients are Al Kalosis and Acey Dosis.

She would appreciate further names, and asks me to solicit your ideas. (Of particular interest are names relating to the courses she is teaching this semester: (a) surgical nursing; and (b) development of young- to middle-aged adults.)

PS: uniformly, her students entirely fail to get the joke.



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>The Joy of Sex, which had a seminal influence in its day.

Nominated for a TEddy! Not that that will make a vas deferens to anyone!



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Well, there's always Carmen Cold.

Pan Creatitis

Paul E. O.

Ski Zophrenic and

Perry Noid, his cousin

A. Sid Reflux

O. Titus Medea (He's a real pain)

McUlar Degeneration

Tiny Tuss

F. U. Vertigo (no just a short ways)

: Itis

Juaninta Oven

Mayo Carditis

N. Doe Metriosis

Harry Palms (specific to adolescence of course)

N. U. Rhesus

I need to go feed the kids!!!!

TEd



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The Joy of Sex, which had a seminal influence in its day.

Nominated for a TEddy! Not that that will make a vas deferens to anyone!


So, TEd, care to give us urinalysis of the book?


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We used to make up names for testing our directories and address books. In amongst those names were:
Mustafa Fag (in UK context Fag is cigarette, so maybe either the surname or disease needs changing!)
Ivan Nastichestikov (possibly originally from "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"'s late arrivals)
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> So, TEd, care to give us urinalysis of the book?

Nope. I don't do yellow journalism.



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Once in college I visited student health because I had a bad case of jock itch, and the doctor I saw that day was named "Dr. Dick." I thought that was pretty funny.

There is a medical student here whose last name is "Looney," and he is thinking about going into psychiatry. I pray every night that he does!

There is a town here in Kentucky named "Nonesuch." Honest. I've seen it on a map.

There's a liquor store right outside a dry county here. As you're headed in the direction towards the dry county the sign says "Last Chance Liquors," and on the other side it reads "First Chance Liquors."




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Alex, you must really be an old timer to have been treated by Dr. Dick. Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick was George Washington's physician.


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