There's some shyster who advertises on Detroit TV with the URL credittherapist.com The mind looks for the most-recognizable patterns in letter strings - and finds them.

llater,

llamas

The "GM Impact" always struck me (har, har) as a poor name for an automobile.

And of course the Chevy Nova is legendary in that regard. Besides the fact that "no va" etc. (you know the story), why would anyone name an automobile after something that blows up? When Esso (or whichever version of Standard Oil it was) changed its name to Exxon in the 1970s, I recall reading about the process of trying to find a name that didn't have an adverse meaning in any language in any area where the company did business. Someone did an analysis showing that there are only a few words in any written language that have the 'xx' letter combination, or anything analogous in another alphabet, and the name "Exxon" was born.

It's because those inside the bubble in NYC don't realize that the rest of us don't give a damn about summers in the Hamptons.

You beat me to it - I have never been to the Hamptons, but I understand that Sag Harbor is a pretty popular place for quite a few famous artists and writers to live.

Does anyone remember the short-lived Reebok athletic shoes for women, in 1997, produced under the name "Incubus"?

Jay Leno said (not verbatim):

"...it's a demon that has sex with women while they're sleeping. Don't we already have a name for this sort of thing? Husbands?"

Ayds diet candy is usually cited as the worst product name ever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayds

"And of course the Chevy Nova is legendary in that regard."

For certain meanings of the word "legendary."

The Chevy Nova thing is an urban myth.

http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp

Assuming that Spanish speakers would naturally see the word "nova" as equivalent to the phrase "no va" and think "Hey, this car doesn't go!" is akin to assuming that English speakers would spurn a dinette set sold under the name Notable because nobody wants a dinette set that doesn't include a table.

Never mind, Dee. I belatedly followed your link and we linked to the same thing.

The University of Florida's art education program is known as UFARTED.

I heard about this on a "Quite Interesting" episode:

http://www.penisland.net/index.html

Whether it is a joke or not I don't know; but, it certainly looks like a legitimate company.

Sears had a line of ladies' jeans named Sag Harbor.

Sag Harbor sounds like it could be the name of a movie in the soon-to-be-popular genre of elderporn.

Whether it is a joke or not I don't know; but, it certainly looks like a legitimate company.

"We Specialize In Wood"

I'm sure "Sag Harbor" doesn't even make fourth-worst name. Ayds candy would score higher, but please remember that it preceded the discovery of AIDS by several years - what puts it in the running is that the company stuck to the name long after everyone had heard of AIDS, and finally renamed the product - from "Ayds Reducing Plan Candy" to "Diet Ayds". (Painfully obvious advertising slogan: "Are you dying to be thin?")

For #1 in culturally unaware product names, I'm wavering between the "Sophie's Choice" potato pancakes Amy cited (Taste you'd trade your firstborn child for), and two UK offerings I found by following her link: "Lolita" child beds(just what a pedophile needs), or the "Zyklon" roller-coaster (Are your children driving you crazy? Put them on this train and they'll never bother you again.)

As for Pen Island, it's real and it's been around for quite a while on various lists of URL's that can be parsed in ways more "interesting" than the intended words, starting with anything using "therapist". By now, there's no way the owners can be unaware of the alternate parsing of penisland.com But you don't want to change your name so customers that want to buy more pens can't find you, and perhaps the comical commentary about that URL acts as free advertising.