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
there is a store in barcelona called "IGGY & POP"
― fit and working again, Monday, 2 April 2012 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.tubapants.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/bitch.jpg
in seattle, short lived, always hated it
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Monday, 2 April 2012 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5132/5401610916_c3bf808a9d_z.jpg
weird barbershop in manhattan
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Monday, 2 April 2012 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
why does that second mannequin head have an ushinisha?
― tanuki, Monday, 2 April 2012 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
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 :(
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Monday, 2 April 2012 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
love funkadeli so much. want to move back to NYC so i can go there. or else start a west coast branch.
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Monday, 2 April 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
oh hair box :/
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 April 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Monday, 2 April 2012 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
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
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.hairroinsalon.com/
― eyes of dora maar (get bent), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
oof
― desk calendar white out (Matt P), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
I just remembered my favorite worst business name tonight:
Straw Hat Pizza
mmm pizza made from hats wtf
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 01:44 (twelve years ago) link
Hair Box is great!!
― Here Comes Abbryone (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 01:51 (twelve years ago) link
It reminds me of downtown suspicious business WIG-O-RAMA
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0ipnrIDSu1r2luwko1_500.png
― Here Comes Abbryone (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 01:52 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― estela, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 01:56 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― dayo, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 01:58 (twelve years ago) link
hahah
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
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
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I hope by 'later' you mean about 25 years later.
― The nIce Age (S-), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
lol estate agent/hairdresser is awesome
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 02:21 (twelve years ago) link