Moby Dick's Restaurant lease blocked due in part to its "offensive name"

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Honestly this is one of the least suggestive store names in the Castro.

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Maybe the town should go with this company, who’s name is obscenity-free.

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Sounds like the Vancouver Building Council should change their name to ‘Abe’.

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Assuming this wasn’t totally intentional*, it was a cock-up on the graphic designer’s part.

*Can we seriously appreciate how awesomely phallic that logo is? I’ve seen actual phalluses that looked less phallic.

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Possibly the same people who were offended by 'The Vagina Monologues.'

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Sounds like a city that would make women book appointments with a “Hoohaa doctor” instead of a Gynecologist :astonished:

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From the article:

The food company has also produced saucy giant posters telling customers to “Touch My Thigh” and “Touch My Breast”.

So…yeah, totally intentional.

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Really? Queen Victoria seemed to be amused.

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It’s this round-headed cylinder with two feathery ball-shaped things on either side, and a spray of stuff coming out above a single round eye in the top. There’s only one kind of cock that can represent.

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If that word is offensive, they should just change the name.

To “Ginormous Dick.”

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Just down the road from where I work in suburban Vancouver is a hardware store called Dick’s Lumber.

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This is in Queens. “One hears” that the PEOTUS is a fan.

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The first time I went to Iowa and saw a number of those places pop up on my map I was all “man, Iowans love porn places, what’s up with that?”

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We have several of these Moby Dicks in the D.C. area:

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One of my favorites, LInoleum Dick’s. There used to be a store by that name in San Jose; sadly, closed and I cannot find a picture of it. I offer this one instead. http://66.114.68.15/External1/Mem17/Pics/p1.jpg

How do I get an embedded image?

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Kum-n-Go. AKA Ejaculate And Evacuate, and Beat Your Meat And Hit The Street.

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Didn’t they change their name to “Dick’s Carpet One”? (Not much of an improvement…)

Also, seen in the Outer Sunset district in SF (IIRC), a small carpet store who’s motto is “We’ll lay anything”.

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Campbell right? On Bascom.

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It would’ve been perfect if Moby Dick’s Restaurnt was next to a Starbucks Coffee.

(the coffee chain took the name from Starbuck, the chief mate on the Pequod)

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