Real Business Names: Dr Pooh (Plumbing), Uplifting Erections (House Raiser

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WOULD you call Dr Pooh to fix your plumbing, William the Concreter to lay a slab, the Dump Rat to remove your rubbish, or Uplifting Erections to raise your house?

These Queensland businesses, and lots of others, are banking on a sense of humour to get your business.

Dr Pooh Plumbing Services owner Rodney Irwin said he came up with a name people would remember.

"I wanted something different that would stick in people's mind," Mr Irwin said.

He established the name in 1999, primarily to set his business apart from other Gold Coast plumbers.

"A few people have found it a little bit offensive but most like it," he said.

"There were a few upper-class people who didn't want the van parked out the front of their big flash houses. Most locals know us but a lot of tourists have a snigger about it.

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8964172%255E13762,00.html

One of my favorites!

(I think it may be a car wash - and bra refers to the cover for the front of cars to keep dead insects off the finish when traveling - but that is just my best guess)

Not to far from where I am right now. Oddly it is one block over from Senator Allen's office. :evilgrin::bounce:



http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?ed=nMVakOp_0TpNvHH0z8HsMFzm5nqUENJRB2FvFMI-&csz=Richmond%2CVA&country=us

Only without the peanuts.

:hurts:

In Falls Church, VA. Nearly rode my bicycle into a telephone pole the first time I saw that.