local businesses with horribly formed "names"

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

there's a Mexican restaurant here in Chi. called THE FAMOUS TACO BURRITO

always find this one weird... it's in hackney somewhere.

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9nm2vxlW61qzsqe5o1_500.jpg

it's like a compliment on a bad beehive, "Hey that's a top beauty nest, love"

(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.

"conveniently located in the middle of nowhere"

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.

http://www.yourcoast.com/Portals/0/Modules/Business/Deja_View_Logo.jpg

;_;

New York's Top Dog Halal Food

oh dear

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'

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.

wow that is a string of bad names

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.

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.

as punishment you will be forced to remain cameraless for the rest of your natural born life...

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

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.

there is a store in barcelona called "IGGY & POP"

http://www.tubapants.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/bitch.jpg

in seattle, short lived, always hated it

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5132/5401610916_c3bf808a9d_z.jpg

weird barbershop in manhattan

why does that second mannequin head have an ushinisha?

used to be a hairstyling place in ballard (seattle) called "fred of switzerland". had a strange sign featuring weird old hair clipart. loved that place but it's gone now and seems never to have been documented on the internet :(

love funkadeli so much. want to move back to NYC so i can go there. or else start a west coast branch.

oh hair box :/

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

seems that way: thai one on, thaiger room, what da phad!!? (by far the most horribly formed)

not 'horribly formed' but shout out to all the trendy local bars and restaurants around here whose names incorporate or consist solely of their street addresses. congratulations, the name of your business is uninspired and opaque.

there is a restaurant here called "eleven forty nine" named after its own street address which is bad enough

but then they opened a second location in a different town and called it "eleven forty nine east" so its name makes no sense whatsoever

http://www.hairroinsalon.com/

oof

I just remembered my favorite worst business name tonight:

Straw Hat Pizza

mmm pizza made from hats wtf

Hair Box is great!!

It reminds me of downtown suspicious business WIG-O-RAMA

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0ipnrIDSu1r2luwko1_500.png

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2307/2052485444_80d3fad1c4_z.jpg?zz=1

when i was very little, about 3, i called my father 'black hair box' for a nickname which he liked because it was mental, then later i amended it to 'no hair box' which he did not like quite so much because he missed his shiny black hair plus also i had lost a lot of my charm by then.

is there a companion thread for local businesses with well-formed names? because my friend told me about a store in los angeles named "the merchant of tennis" and I would like to visit that store.

hahah

well Funkadeli rated a mention in here, so I think this is the thread for both perfect and horrible names

Spotted in Manchester. How the fuck does this happen? What came first?

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1vsytdcq91qbfvavo1_1280.png

when i was very little, about 3, i called my father 'black hair box' for a nickname which he liked because it was mental, then later i amended it to 'no hair box' which he did not like quite so much because he missed his shiny black hair plus also i had lost a lot of my charm by then.

― estela, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 01:56 (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I hope by 'later' you mean about 25 years later.

lol estate agent/hairdresser is awesome

Its the same font too !Are they a combined single business? Haircuts while u rent?