Most terrible does-not-make-sense pun name is A Salt & Battery in NYC
― Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Thursday, 29 March 2012 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
you use salt and batter as ingredients for fish n chips come on
― lag∞n, Thursday, 29 March 2012 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
asphalt and rubbery?
― Rosie 47 (ken c), Thursday, 29 March 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
this sign in fitzrovia http://pic.epicfail.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/sign-fail-weve-got-crabs-downstairs.jpg
― Rosie 47 (ken c), Thursday, 29 March 2012 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― andrew m., Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr222/Chass3ur/laundro.jpg
― low-rise concentration camps (Hunt3r), Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
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
― andrew m., Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
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"
― low-rise concentration camps (Hunt3r), Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
Wife Savor, eh you what?
― Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
ive heard every thai restaurant in seattle has a pun based name
― lag∞n, Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
every time i go to toronto i discover a new one, my fave is "i feel like crepe"
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
http://simpsonswiki.net/w/images/thumb/a/ae/YouThaiNow.png/800px-YouThaiNow.png
― tanuki, Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
Everyone seems to hate "ChickPizz" which is round the corner from my flat.
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
I've always liked 'Mixed Blessings Bakery' on Walworth Road.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3531/3745949916_0bbff4ed31.jpg
― salsa shark, Thursday, 29 March 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
in brooklyn
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqszq39LU41qe3h33o1_500.jpg
― ralphs vons williams (get bent), Thursday, 29 March 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
^ I would eat there, every day, every meal.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 29 March 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
funkadeli is a p awesome name
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 29 March 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
"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
― ralphs vons williams (get bent), Thursday, 29 March 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 March 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
I want to go to Funkadeli
― andrew m., Thursday, March 29, 2012 11:24 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
RIP
http://reocities.com/acewhiskey/st/dstyle.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 29 March 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
Once got my hair cut at a place called The Guillotine.
― pplains, Thursday, 29 March 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Time, a group with Jam and Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 29 March 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 29 March 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
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’.”
― Did you drop some flug in my cup? (Abbbottt), Thursday, 29 March 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
HOWE ABOUT YOU GO FUCK YOURSELF
... I am afraid to ask what this place sells
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Thursday, 29 March 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
dildos, vibrators, those weird sex chairs
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 March 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
sex clones for narcissists imho
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 29 March 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
not horrible formed but in slc there used to be a place called "downtown mexican restaurant"
― fit and working again, Thursday, 29 March 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
giggles irl
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 March 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
there's a Mexican restaurant here in Chi. called THE FAMOUS TACO BURRITO
― tanuki, Thursday, 29 March 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
always find this one weird... it's in hackney somewhere.
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9nm2vxlW61qzsqe5o1_500.jpg
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Thursday, 29 March 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
it's like a compliment on a bad beehive, "Hey that's a top beauty nest, love"
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 March 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
(M)adam & (St)eve Erotic Bakery is Utah's first and only erotic cake specialist conveniently located in the center of the Salt Lake Valley.
― fit and working again, Thursday, 29 March 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
"conveniently located in the middle of nowhere"
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 March 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
There's a road near my work called 'The Parade', and an antique shop on it called 'Gilty on Parade', which always bugs me. It's not even a pun, it just thinks it is. A sort of half-entendre.
― Not only dermatologists hate her (James Morrison), Thursday, 29 March 2012 23:57 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.yourcoast.com/Portals/0/Modules/Business/Deja_View_Logo.jpg
― estela, Sunday, 1 April 2012 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
;_;
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 1 April 2012 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
New York's Top Dog Halal Food
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Monday, 2 April 2012 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
oh dear
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 April 2012 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
dogs do love their halal, tis true
it appears to have changed its name/gone under, but there used to be a small chain of bagel shops in the dc area called 'whatsa bagel'
― mookieproof, Monday, 2 April 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
There a DIY pet grooming place here called Bathe "R" Doggie, which suggests that you rent a dog to wash rather than bring your dog there.
A tea-selling place called Bird Pick (I think it's a chain), that always squicks me (I don't want birds pecking around in my tea, thank you).
And I remember seeing a store called SHIT in Turku, Finland when I was there, but it had already shut down. I couldn't tell what they sold.
― nickn, Monday, 2 April 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
wow that is a string of bad names
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 April 2012 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
I have trouble understanding how you fail to take a picture of a store called SHIT. It's like not photographing a gryphon. You steal a camera if you have to.
― Marty McBrundlefly (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 2 April 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I think I had forgotten to take it with me when I went out. Only there for a few days so I never went back.
― nickn, Monday, 2 April 2012 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
as punishment you will be forced to remain cameraless for the rest of your natural born life...
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 April 2012 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
Redemption!
http://cdn.cstatic.net/cache/gallery/6201/6053751474_8be8f8977f_o.jpg
Well, I'll be damned. It's in Stavanger, Norway, which I've also been to for work, but I swear I saw it in Turku. More pics and the story here:
http://racked.com/archives/2011/08/17/the-shit-store-of-stavanger-norway.php
― nickn, Monday, 2 April 2012 23:11 (twelve years ago) link
There was a store with a name like "Crappy" or something in the outskirts of Paris; I think I have a pic somewhere. Also there used to be a Cramp's Liquors by my stepdad's old house.
― Time, a group with Jam and Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 2 April 2012 23:19 (twelve years ago) link