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prolesunited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 12:01 PM
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Most unfortunate name for a restaurant -- Would you change it?


Stumbled across this place in Columbia City, MO. Would you have changed the name? Do you think the owners have been harrassed?
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 12:05 PM
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1. We have several Ossama's African Hair Weave places in Chicago.
They seem to be OK.
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CogitoErgoDem Donating Member (38 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 12:08 PM
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2. "Osama"? Sorry, I don't recognize that name...
Edited on Fri Aug-15-03 12:12 PM by CogitoErgoDem
:shrug:
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TlalocW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 12:50 PM
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6. Wasn't there some guy...
Named Osama that Bush promised us that he was going to find? Seems that I heard that name before, but it's been so long...

TlalocW
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 01:56 PM
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17. Actualy W was right about him
He is either dead or alive.
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PunkinPi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 12:11 PM
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3. just as unfortunate as the people who make...
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 01:30 PM
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8. or this
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 10:01 AM
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32. Congrats PunkinPi!! 800 posts
:toast:
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 12:11 PM
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4. on a lighter vein... I've always been slightly amused
at the string of convenience stores in rural Missouri (and elsewhere, I guess), called "Kum-n-get-it."


They even have coffee cups and travel mugs with it... Am I just horrifically naughty or (admit it, now) would you not be restraining a red faced chuckle?
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JaneQPublic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 01:31 PM
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9. In Illinois, there used to be grocery stores with an equally naughty name:
The "Grab It Here."
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 03:40 PM
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31. There's a chain of convienience stores in North Dakota:
Named "Kum-n-Go". There's one a couple blocks away from my new dorm, too. I'm gonna get my gas from there ALL the time.:evilgrin:
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jmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 12:13 PM
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5. About a year ago I read an article
about a man who owned an Osama's restaurant near an army base. He said many customers suggested he change the name. He always responded, do you think Timothy's were pressured into changing their restaurants name after the Oklahoma City bombing? I don't see why he should have to change it.
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OldSoldier Donating Member (982 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 03:09 PM
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27. He changed it.
Osama's was about eight miles from Fort Bragg--and even after 9/11 it was always packed with GIs who came for the good food at fair and balanced prices.

It was owned by a gentleman named Osama who was an American citizen.

Now it's something else--and I'll be damned if I can remember what.
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AntiCoup2K4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 01:28 PM
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7. Shit, Osama Bin Hidin himself could be the owner....
...and work on the premises everyday and the fucking idiot Fraudministration still wouldn't be able to find him....

Hello... welcome to Osama's. May I take your order?

Yeah. I'll have the Triple Great Satan Burger with super sized Death to America fries and a large Allah Cola.

Certainly sir.... wait a minute... Little Georgie?? Is that really you?

Uhh... yeah, it's me. Who are you?

It's me! Osama! Great Mohammed's ghost don't you remember all the summers we spent together in Riyhad when we were kids??

Sorry... you don't look a thing like that Saddam feller.....
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catzies Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 01:50 PM
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12. Come for the Satan Burger, stay for the Death to America Fries
Mmmmm....Allah Cola... :beer:
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 03:19 PM
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30. Now serving Mecca Cola

http://www.mecca-cola.com/en/
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StopTheMorans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 02:02 PM
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19. Fraudministration:)!
HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, that is GREAT!
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 01:31 PM
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10. There's an Osama's cafe in Raleigh
the owner was featured on the local news maybe a year or so ago. His (largely flag-waving yahoo) customer base insisted that he keep the name.
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phatkatt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 01:35 PM
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11. I saw a chain in Colorodo called "Kum -n- Go"
Sounds like a Republican senator's lunch hour.
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KCDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 02:10 PM
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20. they have those in NE and IA as well.
:shrug:
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 03:14 PM
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28. Eat It and Beat It
is a hot dog stand in Melrose Park, IL
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Terran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 01:50 PM
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13. Osama's Cafe in Columbia MO
Edited on Fri Aug-15-03 01:51 PM by dirk
Yes, the poor guy got harrassed big time, even in that progressive college town. A lot of the community came to his defense and stood guard around his shop for several days.
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prolesunited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 02:56 PM
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26. I'm sorry to hear that
That's what I thought when I saw this. I'm glad the community came to his defense and I certainly hope the situation has calmed down.
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 01:52 PM
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14. That's a bad one
My favorite naughty one is "Tallywackers". It was a resturant chain that quickly died, probably due to its name.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 01:55 PM
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16. There is a Oriental place here called "Fu-Kim"
Edited on Fri Aug-15-03 01:55 PM by underpants
I'm not kidding either
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 02:19 PM
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22. one in Houston too
people thought I was hard to please because after a run down of potential lunch sites I always replied FuKim. :+
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kmla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 02:13 PM
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21. Their motto?
"If you don't like it, BEAT IT!"

:evilgrin:
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 01:53 PM
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15. There's a place on Haight Street called 'Phuck et'
Seriously.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 01:59 PM
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18. The Atomic Burrito and the Fuk Mi Sushi and Seafood Buffet
http://www.crankychick.net/blog/weblog/archives/000234.html
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 02:24 PM
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23. There's a place in either Iceland or Finland (I want to say Iceland)...
named SARS.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 02:29 PM
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24. My brother works in a restaurant and the Rescue Service was called
EMT's showed upto take care of someon who had had a heart attack.

Any way their schronym was on their hate for the S_____ A____ Rescue Services

Their hats said SARS. The owner of the restaurant almost had a heart attack too.
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ForrestGump Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 02:50 PM
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25. There's a popular soft drink in Taiwan, of all places,
named 'Sars.'
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 03:16 PM
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29. Ufuk hotel
http://www.ufukpension.com.tr/index.htm
Lots of places named Ufuk in Cappadocia (Turkey).
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dolo amber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 10:19 AM
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33. There is a place
in Cincinnati called J and W barbeque, and the unfortunate decision was made by them not to put the word "and" on the sign, but rather the symbol for 'and' which when driving past looks frighteningly like an "E". It's a little mom-and-pop place, looks like it's been there for a hundred years, I can't IMAGINE no one has mentioned it to them yet...
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