For a brief, but entertaining, time there was, up in Canada, the Conservative Reform Alliance Party ...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 13:42 (ten months ago) link
SCAT is a well-formed acronym for a transportation system because it means to go away quickly.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 14:10 (ten months ago) link
it also means
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 14:17 (ten months ago) link
SKEDADDLE
― andrew m., Tuesday, 8 August 2023 14:21 (ten months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MutYIgL4Gbk
― Continuous Two-Tone Warble (Tom D.), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 14:22 (ten months ago) link
Compare MC Skat Kat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xweiQukBM_k
― Bonobo Vox (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 15:02 (ten months ago) link
can't decide if this is good or bad
This is my favourite post punk bakery. This and Siouxsie and the Bunshees. pic.twitter.com/wNefYYOeGe— Jemaine Clement (@AJemaineClement) August 23, 2023
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 16:52 (nine months ago) link
Ditto this...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CR8Pu2UXIAACxrE.jpg
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 17:05 (nine months ago) link
Gonna start a restaurant called Mission of Shawarma. You could order a That's When I Reach for My Falafel with a side of Tahini Fight Song.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 17:22 (nine months ago) link
Instant Korma, Surrealistic Pilau etc
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 17:28 (nine months ago) link
Gang of Flour
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 24 August 2023 02:24 (nine months ago) link
Boule in the Heather
― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Thursday, 24 August 2023 03:03 (nine months ago) link
Lol @ tabes
Bun-known Pleasures
Tom Tom Club Sandwich
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 24 August 2023 03:08 (nine months ago) link
This Yeast
― budo jeru, Thursday, 24 August 2023 06:16 (nine months ago) link
This is an obscure one, but I furiously cackled when I saw a Sydney vegetarian restaurant called Lentil As Anything
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 24 August 2023 06:24 (nine months ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/dL6wKJq/Screenshot-2023-08-24-at-09-50-57.png
Chai GPT, Hyderabad, India
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Thursday, 24 August 2023 07:53 (nine months ago) link
Tropical fish store "The Wet Spot" in Portland.
― Kim Kimberly, Sunday, 24 September 2023 00:50 (eight months ago) link
Little Red Roaster
― Smike and Pmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 October 2023 17:06 (eight months ago) link
Midnightreats
Bugs me because you can read it as Midnigh Treats or Midnight Reats.
― Breakfast at Tiffani Amber Thiessen's (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 28 October 2023 15:09 (seven months ago) link
thinking maybe Cook Children's Healthcare System might have sought out a different naming convention.
esp given how many people that refer to it and leave off the 'apostrophe S'
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 November 2023 15:58 (seven months ago) link
(yes I'm aware Cook is the county)
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 November 2023 15:59 (seven months ago) link
I don't have a real-world example at hand, but I hate it when people can't come up with a company name and instead just cram the first few letters of the 2 founder's names together:
Davric Plumbing SupplyRobmar Consultants
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 10 November 2023 01:06 (seven months ago) link
https://www.its-behind-you.com/images/10Dartford_large.jpg
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Friday, 10 November 2023 07:34 (seven months ago) link
Desilu Productions (/ˈdɛsiluː/) was an American television production company founded and co-owned by husband and wife Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball.
― visiting, Friday, 10 November 2023 08:09 (seven months ago) link
Davlav combines the name and the business.
― koogs, Friday, 10 November 2023 09:00 (seven months ago) link
And out of the recesses of my M*A*S*H-ed mind floats the answer to what "B.J." stands for in B.J. Hunnicut.
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 10 November 2023 11:47 (seven months ago) link
Pieseas Chippy, Harwich.
― Tim, Saturday, 11 November 2023 09:58 (seven months ago) link
If we can extend the thread concept to podcasts, I just learnt that right wing journo Katy Balls has a podcast named Women with Balls
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 11 November 2023 23:55 (seven months ago) link
Not local to me, but:https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tr723ZTDJYs/maxresdefault.jpg
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 23 November 2023 22:26 (six months ago) link
Barber Streisand is bad.
― plax (ico), Thursday, 23 November 2023 22:55 (six months ago) link
Book Pasaage is actually kind of clever as these things go
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 24 November 2023 00:43 (six months ago) link
idgi
― budo jeru, Friday, 24 November 2023 16:08 (six months ago) link
Ditto.
― How old Cary Grant? (Tom D.), Friday, 24 November 2023 16:09 (six months ago) link
like you are going to "book passage" on a ship, but also a book is something you read that has passages in it?
― budo jeru, Friday, 24 November 2023 16:11 (six months ago) link
looking at the local area on google maps recently i came across (googleproofing it) 'Naz-1sh alterations', guess what I read it as :/
― organ doner (ledge), Friday, 24 November 2023 16:35 (six months ago) link
xp my immediate thought was "back passage".
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 24 November 2023 16:52 (six months ago) link
Yeah, back passage = arsehole
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 26 November 2023 20:54 (six months ago) link
there's no way that that's what the bookstore was thinking
― budo jeru, Monday, 27 November 2023 02:08 (six months ago) link
well, on re-reading the thread title, maybe the contention is that the bookstore is unaware of the connotation, but i don't really think "book" sounds anything like "back" or that the name of the store brings to mind an anus
― budo jeru, Monday, 27 November 2023 02:11 (six months ago) link
you don't think it sounds *anything* like back?
― plax (ico), Monday, 27 November 2023 11:57 (six months ago) link
Not enough to work as a pun, I think that's down to the vowel lengths being different.
― How old Cary Grant? (Tom D.), Monday, 27 November 2023 12:05 (six months ago) link
Yeah I'm pretty mystified by "Book Passage". I'd grant it as an arse pun, though I agree the vowel isn't quite right here (maybe depends on your accent?).
My first thought was "book passage" on a ship - it's pretty antiquated language (would feel a bit arch saying I "booked a passage" on the ferry to France). Not sure what they'd be going for there. Having said that, "back passage" for anus is pretty dated too - it's a bit Carry On.
If it was like a really narrow bookshop ... like a passage between shelves? But it looks like a big modern building.
Perplexing.
― JifMoose, Monday, 27 November 2023 12:19 (six months ago) link
To make up, here's a classic that I don't think's been mentioned yet (in no way local to me, but I did once drive past it)https://live.staticflickr.com/97/246596908_7c0d89c705_b.jpg(yeah it was challenge trying to search for this)
― JifMoose, Monday, 27 November 2023 12:28 (six months ago) link
According to their website, "Book Passage" was originally the name of their mail order division before being adopted for the whole company. So "passage of books" seems to have been the intent.
― Kim Kimberly, Monday, 27 November 2023 17:13 (six months ago) link
I am firm that it is a non-filthy double entendre meaning "book passage" on a ship, and a "passage" from a book.
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 27 November 2023 17:59 (six months ago) link
not exactly local but "Duke Cannon" always brings to mind someone launching dog turds at people
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 18:35 (four months ago) link
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.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 12:59 (four months ago) link
http://hipsterbusiness.name
― budo jeru, Friday, 22 March 2024 00:45 (two months ago) link