local businesses with horribly formed "names"

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There's a food stand at our international food market called "SHARK SANDWICH". Every time I see that I think of the Spinal Tap bit -- "The review for Shark Sandwich was merely a two-word review, which simply read 'Shit Sandwich'"

the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 31 October 2016 15:12 (nine years ago)

loool

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 31 October 2016 15:39 (nine years ago)

three weeks pass...

There is a shop I often pass on the bus with the mysterious name LEMON TREE OF JOYCE, and now it is closing down and i will never understand it

I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Sunday, 27 November 2016 01:08 (nine years ago)

Hairapy, which, every time I go by on the bus, I misread as "Hairspy".

(somber synthesizer music) (doo dah), Sunday, 27 November 2016 01:49 (nine years ago)

oh hai rapey

kinder, Sunday, 27 November 2016 14:31 (nine years ago)

https://s14.postimg.org/7hvmiafq9/IMG_0085_002.jpg

local businesses with the swagger of oasis

Rae Kwoniff (NickB), Thursday, 1 December 2016 14:18 (nine years ago)

Ha. Despite being awful, that actually works quite well.

emil.y, Thursday, 1 December 2016 14:32 (nine years ago)

there's chinese takeaway in lincoln baffingly named 'legal food'

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-36t8O6DXQdw/T_tUhflP2ZI/AAAAAAAADA0/Pi9DZ1bB7xk/s640/Legal+Food,+Lincoln.JPG

trump le monde (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 1 December 2016 14:37 (nine years ago)

Possibly trying to capitalize on the U.S. Legal Sea Food chain? Or is it just be coincidentally badly-named?

how's life, Thursday, 1 December 2016 14:57 (nine years ago)

be

how's life, Thursday, 1 December 2016 14:57 (nine years ago)

food so good it ought to be legal

Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 1 December 2016 15:16 (nine years ago)

food so bad it's only just legal to call it 'food'

trump le monde (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 1 December 2016 15:23 (nine years ago)

There is (was?) a hot dog place in Los Angeles called Law Dogs; its gimmick was that the owner was a lawyer and would answer legal questions for the customers.

nickn, Thursday, 1 December 2016 18:06 (nine years ago)

there you go, maybe they have a barrister making the coffee

Rae Kwoniff (NickB), Thursday, 1 December 2016 18:11 (nine years ago)

puns vmic

The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 December 2016 18:12 (nine years ago)

You should feel good about that one, Nick, it was nice.

pplains, Thursday, 1 December 2016 19:20 (nine years ago)

two months pass...

this is a tanning salon near me:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Starbutts/121177618069419

waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 February 2017 05:01 (nine years ago)

http://imgur.com/Q4XJHeG

Some confusion as to correct spelling of name of Japanese takeaway place.

écorché (S-), Friday, 24 February 2017 04:54 (nine years ago)

?

http://i.imgur.com/Q4XJHeG.png

écorché (S-), Friday, 24 February 2017 04:58 (nine years ago)

Dingle Berries Coffee and Tea, but apparently they're in on the joke.

http://la.eater.com/2015/5/18/8621347/dingle-berries-coffee-tea-rosemead-open-boba-new

https://www.yelp.com/biz/dingle-berries-coffee-and-tea-rosemead-2

nickn, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 04:22 (nine years ago)

Garden center called "Floral and Hardy"

Hideous Lump, Sunday, 19 March 2017 00:31 (nine years ago)

u_u

Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 March 2017 00:32 (nine years ago)

Excellent new dn btw

Οὖτις, Sunday, 19 March 2017 01:57 (nine years ago)

I like 'Floral & Hardy'! It's a pun that works for both sides and isn't just shoehorning a business-related pun into one side and leaving the other hanging semantically empty. Well, as long as they do actually specialise in selling hardy perennials.

emil.y, Sunday, 19 March 2017 04:36 (nine years ago)

https://s30.postimg.org/iab0lolf5/IMG_1539_2.jpg

Benylin Ascent (NickB), Sunday, 19 March 2017 04:44 (nine years ago)

omg

Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 March 2017 04:48 (nine years ago)

https://s3-media3.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/h0CXOTkUovfCZpl1P3_CkA/258s.jpg

The sandwiches looked quite dank. (contenderizer), Sunday, 19 March 2017 09:07 (nine years ago)

took a minute

Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 March 2017 14:41 (nine years ago)

Probably unintentional, just happened by chance.

pplains, Sunday, 19 March 2017 15:11 (nine years ago)

As I learned thanks to Manchester By The Sea, the way the locals pronounce "quinzy" makes it unlikely they're in on the joke

SFTGFOP (El Tomboto), Sunday, 19 March 2017 15:40 (nine years ago)

unless its Quincy CA, then it works

Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 March 2017 17:01 (nine years ago)

nah

https://goo.gl/maps/Gc5SNVMi2j12

SFTGFOP (El Tomboto), Sunday, 19 March 2017 23:31 (nine years ago)

"Kush Dental" is about 15 minutes from me.

Kush is dude's last name but I wonder how many people are horribly disappointed when they arrive

waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Monday, 20 March 2017 13:57 (nine years ago)

xpost :(

Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 March 2017 18:13 (nine years ago)

I was gonna say, no one in the Boston area would think Quincy Dental was a pun

Rachel Luther Queen (DJP), Monday, 20 March 2017 18:25 (nine years ago)

Perry Farrell Dental

écorché (S-), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 11:45 (nine years ago)

I don't understand the Quincy Dental pun.

how's life, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 12:27 (nine years ago)

wonder if somewhere there's a business that fixes dented cars called Coinky Dinks?

jay kay huysmans (NickB), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 12:34 (nine years ago)

Quincy Dental = coincidental (if the previous comment wasn't enough).

nickn, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 16:16 (nine years ago)

it's clever because it's just an accident that it works as a pun

mark s, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 16:18 (nine years ago)

exactl

The sandwiches looked quite dank. (contenderizer), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 16:26 (nine years ago)

two weeks pass...

Ok it's not really their fault, but: http://yolohospice.org

JoeStork, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 19:22 (nine years ago)

lol
It was either that or Last Sacramento hospice.

nickn, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 19:38 (nine years ago)

http://m.callbrownies.com/

:/

Neanderthal, Sunday, 9 April 2017 18:26 (nine years ago)

https://www.muzzies.co.uk/

sarahell, Sunday, 16 April 2017 04:57 (nine years ago)

https://preview.ibb.co/fuUp35/IMG_2100.jpg

jay kay huysmans (NickB), Sunday, 16 April 2017 09:51 (nine years ago)

This place just opened in my neighborhood:
http://icenyicecream.com/

Can't really figure out what they're going for with the spacing, and the ICE in all caps makes me think of immigration raids.

the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 17 April 2017 01:27 (nine years ago)

There's also a coming soon business on the same street called "SNOWY ROSY"

the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 17 April 2017 01:28 (nine years ago)

I-CE-NY's logo looks like a snail

“Yeah. Huh, thanks.” (los blue jeans), Monday, 17 April 2017 02:49 (nine years ago)

Not the business name, but on their web site:

"Join us on Thursday nights for live jazz beginning at 8:00 p.m., and live music Friday and Saturday nights starting at 9pm."

nickn, Monday, 17 April 2017 16:53 (nine years ago)


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