Local businesses with delightfully formed or mellifluous names

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I always liked the assonance/near rhyme of Tucson Futons

http://pics3.city-data.com/businesses/p/2/8/6/4/4592864.JPG

― Here Comes Abbryone (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 03:09 (twelve years ago) link

also enjoy the boastful alliteration of my hometown's Fabulous Futons

http://postregistermarketplace.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/marketplace/businesses/images/2008/04/01/Fabulous_Futons_small_t670.JPG?b3f6a5d7692ccc373d56e40cf708e3fa67d9af9d

― Here Comes Abbryone (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 03:11 (twelve years ago) link

speaking of tucson, i took this pic of ROFFLER there:

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/12/14817140_08c9fed52f.jpg

― eyes of dora maar (get bent), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 03:12 (twelve years ago) link

local favorite, slightly grisly so maybe not quite melifluous but:

Jacka The Knacker

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 03:15 (twelve years ago) link

Roffler is some kind of chain? They had one in Las Cruces. That partic Roffler on Swan is also the weirdly Charlie Chaplin-themed HAIR BY TOP BANANA

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3306/3540349656_be70e81470_z.jpg

I was going to go there after getting a bad haircut at XANADU in Tucson and then I realized I could visit a salon on a basis other than having an appealingly left-field name

― Here Comes Abbryone (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 03:15 (twelve years ago) link

hahaha

― eyes of dora maar (get bent), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 03:16 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.flickr.com/photos/yellowcardigan/3766121131/

― )Dre( vs. (Eazy), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 04:08 (twelve years ago) link

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7086/7040965499_fdd3291d10_z.jpg

highlight of my commute when i used to work in hartford: driving past HALF ON A BABY

― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 04:26 (twelve years ago) link

wow

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 04:34 (twelve years ago) link

there is a gym near to where i sit now called 'filet of fitness' it is attached to a fish store called holy mackerel

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 04:38 (twelve years ago) link

http://ax-man.com/aaxmanwithlogo.gif

― )Dre( vs. (Eazy), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 04:42 (twelve years ago) link

I've Been To A MARVELOUS PARTY!

― Here Comes Abbryone (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 05:02 (twelve years ago) link

really doing it for me, that one is

― Here Comes Abbryone (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 05:02 (twelve years ago) link

In Tallin there is a bar called "Depeche Mode Bar" (though I think they've had to shorten it to "DM Bar" nowadays). The only music that plays there, well, I think you can guess this one...

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 09:08 (twelve years ago) link

FISHCOTHEQUE definitely belongs here.

― God arrives for the apocalypse, having been traveling at the speed of (ledge), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 09:10 (twelve years ago) link

four weeks pass...

probably fake, but

http://bigbustycoons.com

― StanM, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 10:03 (twelve years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/angrycustomer.jpg

― like Joe Pasquale and Gandhi (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 10:08 (twelve years ago) link

My local osteopaths: BACKS & BEYOND.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 10:51 (twelve years ago) link

Their "happy customers" pics would certainly suggest a fake: