Is it okay to make up names that sound a lot like popular ones?

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Change is good but sometimes change can be not so good, like making up a word that sort of sounds like something very familiar but is a derivation or alteration of such a word or group of words like a company logo or a government agency or a product brand. Here are a few examples of made up names I find strange yet interesting to look at. 1. BBB renamed using the same acronym but using different inferences to other words ... Banana Boys Bureau 2. TGIF renamed using a different 4th character as TGIT, which is actually Thank God It's Thursday, which is a catch phrase for shows on television that are popular that are broadcast on Thursdays during Prime Time, as a derivation of the company logo for a popular restaurant, TGI Fridays, which actually became known by a movie called Thank God It's Friday, that came out on May 19, 1978. 3. ADIDAS sports shoes and other things renamed by it's exact letters as a saying that goes like this ... ALL DAY I DREAM ABOUT SEX. 4. Starbucks, and you can play around with this one a lot, for instance ... Star Bucks, where prices are as high as the stars, or Starblux, a variation on the name but with no reference to anything actual or imagined. 5. Names like Johnny Cash, where the last name is obviously a generic for Money, so you might play with the name and get into trouble doing this but I would not because I respect that musician too much to even think about playing around with his name. 6. Just Say No To Drugs, is a very old and popular phrase that was often a logo and an ad on TV. You could use the symbol of a red circle with a diagonal line down the middle over just about anything, for instance, Just Say No To Rubber Monkeys and show a picture of a chimp on a rectangular sign with that big red circle and a diagonal slash in the middle over the face of that chimp. 7. Beef, It's what's for dinner, could be played with a lot. You could change this popular phrase that represents the Beef Industry and for the fun of it, say ... Beer, It's what's for dinner, and get a few laughs. 8. Give a Hoot & Don't Pollute, a saying and a logo for a specific organization that proposed not polluting the environment when in a national park and the mascot for this phrase was Woodsy Owl. You can play on this phrase by saying, Give a Damn & Don't make Spam! But ... is this all okay? I wonder about things like this sometimes when I am out of any real ideas.