Friday, November 27, 2020

The Best Named Toilet Companies

20. Happy Can Portable Toilets, Atlanta, GA

19. Drop Zone Portable Service Inc., Frankfort, Ill.

18. Blackman's Best Seat In The House Inc., Bradley, Ill.

17. Plop Jon Inc., Port Saint Lucie, Fla.

16. A.S.A.P. Port-A-Pots Inc., Hampstead, Md.

15. Ameri-Can Engineering, Argos, Ind.

14. Bobby’s Pottys, White Marsh, Md.

13. Johnny On The Spot Inc., Old Bridge, N.J.

12. LepreCAN Portable Restrooms, Chicago

11. Loader-Up, Inc., Sarasota, Fla.

10. Mister Bob’s Portable Toilets, Vero Beach, Fla.

9. Royal Throne, Allentown, PA

8. Tanks Alot, Tomball, Tex.

7. Tee Pee Inc., Roseville, Mich.

6. Wizards of Ooze Ltd., Anacortes, Wash.

5. Oui Oui Enterprises Ltd., Chicago

4. Gotta Go Potties, Stroudsburg, Pa.

3. UrinBiz.com, Chicago (apparently changed their name or went out of business)

2. Willy Make It? Oregon City, Oregon

1. Doodie Calls, New Orleans

Just to make sure, I looked all of these up for your convenience. Kirby Barlett-Sloan also submitted  Tardis Portable Toilets. And D. Webb told us about Nix Tank Company, which has the slogan "A royal flush beats a full house!"

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

What about Honey Bucket here in Oregon?

John Wilson said...

You missed one:
Call A Head
callahead.com

Ebon Krieg said...

"here's Johnny"

xoxoxoBruce said...

John-ny-On-The-Spot in New York state.

Anonymous said...

"Crapper John, MD" in Maryland, of course.

Hfxer said...

In Nova Scotia , Canada a couple of the larger companies are ROYAL FLUSH and HONEY HUTS .

Douglas2 said...

The name isn't that creative, but I was long ago at an event supplied by this company:

http://www.toilets.com/eventrentals.htm

and found their trademark registered motto "Porta-John – Out-Standing in the Field"® to be in one sense highly accurate. There were big fields, with their units scattered liberally around said fields.

jono said...

Our local provider is Pete's Potties.

WTM said...

For extra credit, why are toilets often called 'honey buckets' or some other thing having to do with honey?

Debra She Who Seeks said...

Years ago, when the Pope visited our city, the many portable toilets set up at the outdoor religious service site were nicknamed "Vati-cans."

Marco McClean said...

There's a local pump company in Mendocino whose motto is /The septic whisperer/. It's Rick Ricca's A-1 Septic. The radio ads on KMFB many years ago, read by Texas-accented Late Night Liz, always mentioned as a selling point that he'd show up with his "trusty low-slung dog Yoda".

And I don't remember where I saw it, but there was a newspaper ad for Jubilee brand toilet tissue. You know, like "Whee! What fun!"

Bicycle Bill said...

Gone but not forgotten — KYBO.  This was an Iowa-based company that provided the robin's-egg blue portable toilets for the famous cross-state bicycle ride known as RAGBRAI during the 1970s-early 1980s.  The story goes that the name supposedly was an acronym for the phrase "Keep Your Bowels Open".  No one knows for sure if that was indeed the case (and if there's anyone around nowadays who does, they ain't talking!), but that 'origin-of-the-name' tale has been repeated so frequently that the legend has become the de-facto truth.

The company apparently went out of business or got bought out by a competitor sometime in the mid-1980s, but some 35 years later, the portable toilets on the bicycle ride are still referred to as 'KYBOs', even by newbies who hadn't even been born yet when the little blue spot-a-pots were the 'pause that refreshes'.

-"BB"-