local businesses with horribly formed "names"

2 locations! salem and peabody, ma.

Eat Shit And Die Yard Maintenance xxp

This is actually a national chain: http://www.sweatshop.co.uk/

2 locations! salem and peabody, ma.

― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, March 29, 2012 10:58 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I almost bought a bunghole shirt the last time I was in salem. I didn't know what a bunghole was until recently and always thought it was someone's unfortunate last name.

the was a hair salon near my old place called follicles and a wine store called fermented grapes, i found them both a bit technical

oh oh and a restaurant called fish and crustaceans

I am always bemused by the memory of a roadside cafe that has since closed, named (as far as anyone could tell from the enormous signage) EAT.

http://hilton.org.uk/facade/cambridge-eat.jpg

stands for 'excellence and taste'9 maybe not anymore).

anyway more interestingly:

http://tanksalot.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/thyme-to-eat-cafe.jpg?w=600&h=398

ooh there is a paint your own pottery place called Your Fired.. as well. I know technically it's not grammatically correct but it DRIVES ME INSANE.

(er, technically not INcorrect)

I never liked "Eggspectations"

salon names provide a rich vein of forced puns

This is an imaginary one but I always fancied opening up shops called "occult bakery" and "occult drycleaners"

http://statics.192.com/estreet/original/large/1045/10457006.jpg

short cuts, obv, but OH FFS next door also

tbh i don't think anyone's ever gonna beat the 'neutring stops aids in cats' shop:

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/55/137639493_b1dce51087_z.jpg

there was little salon i saw recently named WE'RE HAIR, it just doesn't set right with me, because it's a pun on "we're here" which isn't really even a thing? plus they are saying that they ARE hair?

wow wow wow @ cat neutering place

also a nail salon called GET NAILED

this is in marylebone

http://static.whoseview.com/files/1273095385313IMG0509146271.png
you can't quite read it here but this is the company

http://www.goaway.co.uk/index.php?page=ABOUT_US

it's meant to be a sentence, i think - but the way they coloured it made it look as though they thought of 2 puns but only had one shop and so they are tagging both names on.

Most terrible does-not-make-sense pun name is A Salt & Battery in NYC

you use salt and batter as ingredients for fish n chips come on

asphalt and rubbery?

this sign in fitzrovia
http://pic.epicfail.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/sign-fail-weve-got-crabs-downstairs.jpg

In West Memphis: Hair "I" Am

akin to the We're Hair mentioned above. Don't know why the I's in quotes. Emphasis?

Also had a Doggy Style groomer up the street, but they finally apparently figured it out and changed the name to something bland.

http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr222/Chass3ur/laundro.jpg

one of my go-to liquor stores is right on the Trail of Tears here in North Little Rock. It's called ... Firewater. Crossed spears feature in the signage.
http://southxmidwest.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/firewater.jpg?w=640&h=640

many pho permutations- locally there's "1 2 3 Pho," but i've also seen pics of "pho-king delicious"

in avon next to beaver creek- "beaver liquors"

Wife Savor, eh you what?

ive heard every thai restaurant in seattle has a pun based name

every time i go to toronto i discover a new one, my fave is "i feel like crepe"

http://simpsonswiki.net/w/images/thumb/a/ae/YouThaiNow.png/800px-YouThaiNow.png

Everyone seems to hate "ChickPizz" which is round the corner from my flat.

I've always liked 'Mixed Blessings Bakery' on Walworth Road.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3531/3745949916_0bbff4ed31.jpg

in brooklyn

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqszq39LU41qe3h33o1_500.jpg

^ I would eat there, every day, every meal.

funkadeli is a p awesome name

"i'm headed out, do you need anything from the funkadeli?"

funkadeli has some health violations...

http://www.cleanchow.com/Restaurants/NY-Brooklyn-FUNKADELI-CORP

not illadvised but fucking annoying: there's a street in Sacramento called Howe Ave, and I swear every business on that bloody street is some version of HOWE ABOUT SPOONS, HOWE ABOUT COOKING, HOWE ABOUT YOU GO FUCK YOURSELF

I thought I had seen them all and then yesterday I saw a van with a custom magnetic sign in papyrus lettering 'HOWE IT'S DONE CATERING'.

I swear I nearly stomped on the accelerator out of spite.

I want to go to Funkadeli

Also had a Doggy Style groomer up the street, but they finally apparently figured it out and changed the name to something bland.

― andrew m., Thursday, March 29, 2012 11:24 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

RIP

http://reocities.com/acewhiskey/st/dstyle.jpg

Once got my hair cut at a place called The Guillotine.

Doggie Style is a chain of bougie pet stores in Philly. We've also got Pho Ha which isn't a pun but I like to imagine they've got you all in check.

hahaha

I always enjoyed this map of German salons with common punny names

http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/friseur.jpg

Firstly Haarmonie (a play on Haar, German for ‘hair’ and the German word for harmony). And then, writes map submitter Ron Garrett, “Haareszeiten, a play on Jahreszeiten (German for ‘seasons’). Haargenau is a real word that means ‘exactly’, like the English expression ‘to a hair’.”

HOWE ABOUT YOU GO FUCK YOURSELF

... I am afraid to ask what this place sells

dildos, vibrators, those weird sex chairs

sex clones for narcissists imho

not horrible formed but in slc there used to be a place called "downtown mexican restaurant"

giggles irl