According to one survey, May is considered the favourite month of the year, October second. June and December that are tied for third. With our cool spring, June will be on top this year for us. So as we launch into our favourite month, I went looking for crazy and strange business, retail and company names. Here are just three:
Analtech Where it's located: Newark, Delaware What it does: Manufacturer of thin layer chromatography plates. How it got its name:Portmanteau of the words "analytical" and "technology." About: Analtech distributes its products to more than 40 countries and 6 continents.
McJunkin Where it's located: Charleston, West Virginia What it does: Manufacturer of pipes and valves. How it got its name: Jerry McJunkin was the original co-founder of McJunkin Supply Company in 1921. About:McJunkin Red Man employees around 3450 people and and is #493 on the Fortune 500.
Ass Compact Where it's located: Germany What it does: Specialist magazine for Capital and Risk Management How it got its name: This one is anyone's guess. The rest of the companies are HERE.
There are many articles on this topic. A picture tour of oddly named business and companies is HERE. This article has Butt Drilling, Wally's Private Parts, Turd Baby, My Dung, Big Dick's Halfway Inn, AssCompact (see above), Glory Hole Center, Anal Jewelry Center, Beaver Cleaners, The Golden Shower Restaurant, and so on.
Huffington Post took on the challenge and found Goin' Postal. It is followed by a restaurant with the name of Sam and Ella's. How about Passmore Gas & Propane?
Even the websites themselves have crazy names - at chive.com they showed these pictures of business names: Mustard's last stand, British Hairways, Lettuce Eat, Juan in a Million, Lord of the Fries, and so on. Another site named Pleated-jeans.com had Jurassic Pork, Surelock Homes, Carl's Pane in the Glass - all as picture stories.
What if you want to create a crazy business name?, I found biznamewiz.com and typed in my name to get over 15,000 whacky combinations such as:
Marilyn Crispy Cornwell Aristotle Cornwell Behold Marilyn Craze Marilyn Sixth Man
Our pictures today show the interesting flowers of Anthurium, blooming at Longwood Gardens.
Longwood's nine production greenhouses are 378' x 80'. I met the supervisor of heating and mechanical while visiting earlier in the week. He was walking through the greenhouses and checking in corners, so I thought he must be in charge of something. He briefly outlined the two heating systems - one for the show greenhouses and the second for the production greenhouses. He said that it takes a lot of manual monitoring in addition to the automation.
Longwood's main boiler plant has three boilers fuelled by oil or gas to produce steam for heating. That's how we heat our greenhouse here, too. In addition, they have a 10-acre solar field across the road from the garden entrance. It produces 2 million kilowatt hours per year and accounts for 30% of energy consumption. Within the greenhouses, their computerized system controls temperature, bench and perimeter heat, snow melters, and cooling and shading devices.
Do you check out the news around the world? Whenever I do, I am surprised by the North American names for newspapers in other cultures. For example, you can't be sure where the "Star" headline might come from. Here's a great example today:
‘Titis Sakti’: Grand marriage of comedic Shakespeare and dramatic Mak Yong At first glance, the Malay theatre production Mak YongTitis Sakti seems to be made up of two completely disparate elements. Talk about chalk and cheese.
Mak Yong Titis Sakti is one part A Midsummer’s Night Dream – one of the most famous romantic comedies ever written by the English playwright William Shakespeare. The other part is Mak Yong, a traditional form of dance-drama from the northern states of Malaysia.
You wouldn’t think they could blend so well. Yet for director/actress Norzizi Zulkifli, who first presented Titis Sakti (Magic Drops) in 2009, these two art forms have a lot more in common than most people think.
“Every time I read Shakespeare’s plays, they give me visuals which I realised, ‘Oh, this is very similar to my culture!’ Like Mak Yong, or Bangsawan theatre,” says Norzizi, 41, in a recent interview at KLPAC.
Mak Yong Titis Sakti is on at Pentas 1, KLPac, Sentul Park,in Kuala Lumpur from Jan 27 to Feb 4. Look at the google map, and you'll see place names that are definitely not in North American. It would be interesting to see this show - maybe it will travel some day.
