Today’s “Unfortunate Names,” brought to you by Sugarloaf, and Golden Mushroom Florist.
Sugarloaf. This is the name of the company that sells/distributes those mechanical arm in glass case things, and if you are lucky you can grab the stuffed animal and drag it to the chute.
I had to look this up to see if it is a real word. And yes, it is:
sugar loaf n.
1. A large conical loaf of pure concentrated sugar.
2. Something, such as a mountain, that resembles a loaf of sugar in shape.
But prior to that, there were only two things I knew of that came in a “loaf,” and only one of them was bread…
So you can see why the term Sugarloaf might be a little on the disgusting side, for sickos like me anyway. And what do cheap toys and a coin-operated claw hand have to do with a pile of sugar?
Then there is Golden Mushroom Florist. Can someone please tell me;
a) what does a golden mushroom have to do with flowers?
b) why would a mushroom be golden?
I thought about this one for quite a while until I realized that floristry must Mario & Luigi’s new line of work! (Plumbing is apparently passe). This is because the only place I have ever seen a golden mushroom is in Super Mario Bros., when you collected 100 coins, you got a 1-UP. So it all makes sense now.
Not that I would ever purchase flowers from a place called “Golden Mushroom.” I might buy soup there, though, or eat the buffet.
Lastly, we have “The Bareback Bar.” There is a severe problem with this place, in that “Bareback” has quite a different meaning to different people. And this club is NOT a gay bar, but rather it is a country/western honkytonk. So some uninformed individuals wearing hot pants and gold lame may be in for a severe shock after entering this establishment.
And don’t forget the other definition of Sugarloaf:
3. Name of a one-hit-wonder 70s group who sang “Green Eyed Lady”
Mullettastic!
Remind me not to play that game when Garrett’s around. I don’t want to be the Sugarloaf Queen . . .
Sugarloafs…hmmmm..
I think they sell those in small quantites around easter. We call them Peeps and Epiphany is addicted to them.
Yeah, but the problem I have with the name is I think about “pinching a sugarloaf.”
Correction: The 1-Up mushroom in Super Mario Bros. was green and white, not golden as you would have us believe.
Isn’t there a room of coins somewhere in one of the Super Mario Bros games where the coins are in the shape of a mushroom? I think that was what I was talking about.
There were beigeish mushrooms with red dots somewhere in the downstairs of that game.