TRUE STORY: One of my interpreter friends tried to name her interpreting business Hand Jobs, but her accountant said he’d drop her if she did.

[cynaq@beige.party]

@adhdeanasl did she compromise to “manual gigs”?

[adaliabooks@ohai.social]

@adhdeanasl

Something I will always regret is not naming my wood fired catering business
"Al Forno Catering"

[a@beige.party]

@adhdeanasl YES!

[boulder@mastodon.social]

@adhdeanasl I always wanted to own a topless hair cut salon called ‘A Little Off the Top’

I think your friend should use ‘Talk To The Hand LLC’

[stevefoerster@social.vivaldi.net]

@adhdeanasl I only know this because I saw their van, but there's a mobile pet grooming service in Northern Virginia called "The Dog's Bollocks".

[medeavanamonde@beige.party]

@adhdeanasl Praise “Bob”!

[the_turtle@polyglot.city]

@adhdeanasl there is a tale I haven't been able to verify that years ago some Japanese tech company wanted to introduce their line of handheld pocket computers in the US aimed at businesses.

Their US distributor had to persuade them that the name "HandJob" wouldn't be good.

That sounds like something Sharp would have done in the 1980s.

[modernmaslow@techhub.social]

@adhdeanasl This is where 'the squeaky wheel gets the grease', becomes far more suspect.

[murodegrizeco@toad.social]

@sarajw

Some old half-remembered anecdote I read, something about some professional who got incredulous questions, when he tried to expense a book about the experiences of a sex worker, "Callgirl"...

"Really? and $12.99?"

[bucknam@mastodon.social]

@adhdeanasl had to suggest this to my friend who is a professional puppeteer. He doesn’t have an accountant so no problems there.

[mamalake@beige.party]

@adhdeanasl time to get a new accountant! I’d love to write a check to *Hand Jobs*