local businesses with horribly formed "names"

you're forgetting something: yorkies

Don't forget your Keeshond.

across the street from "habla e-spaniel"

a bird in the hand is worth two in the wolfhound

Just a Pinscher Salt--Doc Told Me to Cut Back

i like the combination medical offices near me that just have a single sign: DENTIST PODIATRIST with that squiggly medical symbol thing in the middle.

had to take one of our cats to the all-night emergency pet clinic nearby. online it's called the After Hours Animal Hospital. but the sign says After Hour Animal Hospital.

Been there twice with animals we had to leave behind.

And as sad as I was the first time, I couldn't help but get "2,3,4 if you close the door, the night could last forever," stuck in my head.

I really hope Mark of Respect is owned by a guy named Mark.

"Don't Forget Your-Kies" may be the worst of the whole thread somehow.

i like the combination medical offices near me that just have a single sign: DENTIST PODIATRIST with that squiggly medical symbol thing in the middle.

― fervently nice (Treeship), Friday, July 26, 2013 12:29 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is why i already desperately miss the recently-removed old-school signs on NYC's Roosevelt Island

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3545/3838799566_b6fff9ccea.jpg

Those store signs were the best.

I saw a pickup today that just had a very small magnetic sign on the lower part of the door
HEATING & AIR

i was like, I appreciate your simplicity, sir

there's a convenience store here with a name that i think is actually really funny

http://goo.gl/maps/InqjT

ftr it says 'FREE MARKET'

There used to be a pizza place across from my law school (now a shake shack) that had no apparent name, just a giant block letter sign that said PIZZA SALAD. So of course we referred to the place as "Pizza Salad"

to be clear, the pizza place is now a shake shack, not my law school

i'm at the law school/i'm at the shake shack

shake shack law school*

*not an accredited institution
** but the shakes are delicious

rejected jay-z album title

not local, but

http://www.wanksons.com/wank-attack1.htm

There used to be a pizza place across from my law school (now a shake shack) that had no apparent name, just a giant block letter sign that said PIZZA SALAD. So of course we referred to the place as "Pizza Salad"

There's a lighting/DJ equipment hire place here whose name is its phone number, which has the helpful side-effect that you can't look up their phone number without knowing their phone number.

(of course now you can look it up on Google Streetview by plunking the Streetview icon on the street corner you think it might be on, but this place has been going since the days of phone books)

Is the place like 800-44-DANCE or is it just named for some numbers?

it's in the streetview link

that occurred to me after I posted…

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6GGtxYC62x0/TI0-zJ9SfXI/AAAAAAAAADc/Fq_X4Ps4-OI/s1600/3898992316_bb415d899d.jpg

Crepe-N-Tearia

Sorry, Crepe "N" Tearia

http://s3-media4.ak.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/sT1lE3mJw4ujFAnc-VYODw/l.jpg

It's a pet shop.

it's THE pet shop, boys

There's a beauty salon near me called Glam'r'us.

There's this local carpenter here who trades under the name Daw Guy. His name is Guy, his logo is a dog with a large eyeball painted on its side (geddit?) and I guess he fits doors or something? So very terrible.

"the lunatic fringe" (hairdressers)
"YOLO" (shoe shop)

Not a "horribly formed name" in the classic sense of this thread, but a local restaurant opened up in the last few months (taking over the space from what had long been a Thai food/doughnut shop). The sign out front reads

Ch4s and Fr4n's Place
Eat Here or We'll Both Starve

I feel so bad for them.

http://edgewater.patch.com/groups/business-news/p/chas--frans-place-opening-monday-in-edgewater

that pet shop boys pet shop reminded me that there is a hair salon near where I live called depeche mode

yeah but that's probably just the phrase

I'll club this seal to make a deal, xp

Not a business, but I was just in Whole Foods and saw a non-dairy "butter" called Zen Budda.

Oh yeah, also saw a beer from New Zealand called Boysen Beery.

There used to be a cider/alcopop type drink here called TwoDogs, which may need some explaining if yr not Australian, I'm not sure.

I don't get it.

It's a (probably vaguely racist) shitty old Aussie joke.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/578111_10151687294776290_926927364_n.jpg

http://www.professorplumb.net/s/cc_images/cache_723058304.png?t=1366825485

http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2586/1276/1600/953191/prune.jpg

^not a pun or anything. Just "wacky".

https://scontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/540908_426886134061185_1336969907_n.jpg

I have been to the Fractured Prune many times. It is ott but p good nonetheless

Not exactly on topic for the thread, but I just discovered a corporation called "CHINA XD PLASTICS CO LTD"

http://parkslopestoop.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2013/07/park-slope-billboard-3-070913.jpg

Intended to evoke Peyton Place, I guess, but instead conjures an image of Peyton Manning receiving a lap dance.