In the course of my job I come across a huge number of companies, names and addresses, and sometimes I encounter one that makes my eyebrows rise.
Today it’s a road in Santa Fe Springs, California named “Freeway Drive”.
The street-naming committee must’ve been drawing a real blank that day.
One of my favorite corporate oddities of all time is the law firm Morrison & Foerster LLP. They commonly abbreviate their company name to “MoFo”, and their corporate slogan is “The MoFo Difference”. The company’s homepage is located at www.mofo.com.
I swear I’m not making that up. Click on the company link above if you don’t believe me.
They appear to be aware of the joke, although the company itself and the abbreviation predate the slang term by quite a few years. But they aggressively market themselves toward clients in the high-tech industry, where that sort of humor is undoubtedly appreciated. 
But I think the “Out Of Left Field” award for a company name has to go to a UK firm called Tadpole Cycle. I’ve never been entirely clear on what they make, although it has nothing to do with tadpoles.
December 16th, 2003 at 12:02 pm - Edit
Wow. I didn’t know Tadpole was still around.
Tadpole, now as then, makes SPARC laptops. SPARC being Sun’s favoured CPU family for the past decade and a half or more.
I’ve never understood why anyone would buy a laptop version, though, given that Sun’s real advantage over the competition is in the server and redundancy (in the good sense!) market.
Thus, my amazement that Tadpole is still around. Evidently someone must have a use for them.
December 16th, 2003 at 12:08 pm - Edit
Come to think of it, maybe you pasted the wrong link? Tadpole is not “Tadpole Cycle”, even technically, an they’re based in Cupertino, CA, not the UK.
Ah, here we go. Good old google. Evidently Tadpole merged with Cycle, and they look like a UK company because there was a UK press release. Or maybe they were a UK company before the merger? I always recall thinking they were US, but maybe not.
Yay, irrelevant details!
December 16th, 2003 at 12:36 pm - Edit
From what I recall about dealing with their records, Tadpole Cycle was a subsidiary of Tadpole, a parent company based in the UK. I believe Tadpole Cycle shortened their name to just “Tadpole” sometime in 2001.