local businesses with horribly formed "names"

There's a textiles shop in town called 'Basket of Threads'. Before that, it was 'The Sewing Machine Box'. Ouch.

really grim chip shop called "fish plaice", looking at the pun on the shopfront is like seeing the ghost of a child in a dying old man's angry gnarled face.

it's "flickers" apparently
http://static.whoseview.com/files/1272475646051IMG1094739120.png

camden strikes again
http://statics.192.com/estreet/original/large/1219/12193176.jpg

Dublin classics:

http://images.travelpod.com/users/paulandjenny/1.1299866393.knobs-and-knockers.jpg

http://50percenthuman.com/blog/wp-content/gallery/people/lino-ritchie.jpg

there's a thai restaurant here called THAI COON, and it makes me a little uncomfortable

http://www.anglingfish.net/images/bait-sign-master-baits12.JPG

swear there used to be a tackle shop of this name in Hull, too.

not "horribly formed" tho imo

http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/the-green-mama/assets_c/2010/01/bebybaby-thumb-572xauto-66304.jpg

i mean clearly it's a popular gag

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_isUvlzkZPIQ/TJuyad4f6HI/AAAAAAAAG5c/bWtVesg1jSw/s1600/838134437_bdc3e6b68e.jpg

http://static.whoseview.com/files/1272615200290IMG0556417868.png

in peckham, used to pass it on bus to work....

I can think of a couple in Toronto - tbh I kinda love when shops go this route:

Grateful Head (hair salon)
Snakes & Lattes (coffee shop w/many board games you can play on)

and this doesn't have a pun in general but it makes me lol everytime: Shorty Shack (womens' clothing store) which is close to Ghetto Stylez(!!)

OH!!!
And north of Toronto, closer to cottage country, there is a place that makes decks and assorted cottage furnishings, called Deck in a Box!

oops I messed that up slightly

http://www.dockinabox.com/images/storefront.jpg

Maybe not appropriate for this thread, but I really despise the trend of naming business "Zen," e.g. Zen Hair Salon, Zen Massage, Zen Drywall, etc.

lol @ deck in a box

knobs and knockers and lino ritchie also great

there was an excellent scaffolder's name "pole positions".

much better than, for example, another one i saw called "poles apart" - no thanks.

Chickpizz!

ya that one is my fav so far

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~landau/about.1.jpg

kosher wine

There is a local bloke who does mowing, raking, etc. for the rich people around here. I see his old beat-up truck parked on the street, usually half-blocking traffic. Emblazoned on his truck doors: ESAD'S YARD MAINTENANCE.

?

http://www.liloia.com/images/peabody.gif

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.

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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"

Yeah, they sell that stuff at my local Ace Hardware and it just makes me think of poop shooting out of a butt, so no thanks.

http://hipsterbusiness.name