No, you didn't ask a stupid question, you asked a question that, in order to answer it, someone would have had to done some considerable research to answer it if they didn't remember off the top of their head. Without explaining what possible purpose it could serve to try to find the name when the shop was no longer available, it was unlikely that anyone would be willing to help you. If you had bothered to explain why you wanted to remember this bit of history, it might have aroused enough curiosity in someone for them to try to help you. Which is why I asked why it was so important to you.
I remembered the shop (or one similar to it). I knew it was by one of the 64 MSCs I am registered with. I knew that if the shop were currently available I would be aware of it because I check all 64 job boards about four times a month and read all the MSC emails I get. But I didn't remember which one it was. However, I generally never delete emails and, if I'd known why you wanted to know who it was even though they didn't have the shops any more, I might have been induced to review the subject lines of 1000 emails to see if I could find an email about it. But I won't go to all that trouble if I don't know what you want the information for, since it appears it was only to try to satisfy your need to remember, and not to help you get the non-existent job.
But since you found it anyway, thanks for taking the time to come back and berate me for trying to be helpful. I have gone out of my way in the past to google, check whois directories, made phone calls, and even run limited background checks to try to answer questions here, but only if I know why the question is being asked.
Glad to know I won't be tempted to waste my time on your behalf in the future.
I was also going to mention that there is a government program to get a free cell phone if you meet certain criteria, and if you had answered that this was why you wanted to know, I would have directed you to a source of information about that program.
So who's the snippy one? The one who demands information of total strangers without bothering to explain why you want it, or the one who tries to get more information in order to determine the best way to try to help a total stranger with what appears on the surface to be a pointless request?
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I pray it does not occur that the last thing I did before I died was vacuum the house or eat broccoli.