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Wordboard: names for a coffee / candy store

With this post, we begin a regular series of deep dives into the dusty old database housing the original Wordlab forum (the “Wordboard,” for old-timers). The original inquiry, along with a selection of name suggestions, will be presented in each…

Taglines / Slogans

From “100 Snoring Elephants Couldn’t Drive Me Away” to “Zoom Over to Pakistan”, Wordlab…we’re giving it away — 5215 taglines or slogans at a time: 100 Snoring Elephants Couldn’t Drive Me Away 1000 BC (Before Coffee) 2012 – McStarbucks is…

Retirement Home Names

As the hoard of baby boomers worldwide enter their Classic Rockin’ golden years, society will need a place to house them all, places with good names that savvy boomers will be proud to inhabit. Retirement clusters with names like the…

Restaurant Names

Soup’s on, with 1553 names below for restaurants, cafes, bars, pubs, truck stops, brasseries, delis, fast-food joints, and supper-clubs. But first, try a few bites of our tasty Restaurant / Bar Name Generator: Be sure to check out Wordlab’s full…

Product Names

If you have to name a product, and were really hoping to find 3,243 name options that probably have nothing whatsoever to do with your product, then sit back, relax and enjoy the list below — you’ve found your Mother…

Ice Cream Flavor Names

If a mere 31 flavors just doesn’t whet your appetite, try these 401 creamy treats: 60 Grit 69 Scoops A Midsummer’s Ice Cream Abandon Mint Acid Crystal Chunk Adagio for Stringbeans Algae Rhythm Almond Terrace Antifreeze Anti-Gravity Chocolate Ass Candy…

Fragrance Names

Here are 828 names for perfumes, colognes, soaps, sprays, gels, lotions, creams, waxes, tonics and anything else for women or men that has a bit of a scent about it: 11 Scent 3-Point Stance 7 Scentric Abby Joseph Cohen Acacia…

Event Names

Names for your parties, parades, picnics, charades, soirees, bashes, benders, and brouhahas, below. But first, try our Wedding / Event Name Generator: Be sure to check out Wordlab’s full assortment of Name Generators. 10,000 Latkes24 Carrot Seven25,000 Mile Stones29 Psalms…

Collective Nouns

So you’ve stalked a pride of lions, been haunted by a murder of crows, and inundated by a shower of meteoroligists. You enjoyed James Lipton’s An Exaltation of Larks, but have been left wanting 233 more collective nouns? As usual,…

Album Titles

After you’ve found a new name for your band in our list of Rock Band Names, and if something as quaint as a “record album” ever gets made again, here are 711 potential titles for you to play with: $$…

Rock Band Names

We know how hard it is to come up with a great band name, and yet we persist. Public service demands great sacrifices, and down below, you’ll find 4193 of them for your musical pleasure. But first, go for a…

Where did Alibaba, the brand name, come from?

Earlier this year, the International Herald Tribune put the spotlight on Jack Ma, co-founder of Alibaba.com: “I’m a normal guy,” he said during a recent interview in Singapore. “I feel ashamed because I feel I’m stealing the contribution of my…