# Actual weird store names from where you live. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 25, 2005, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-weird-store-names-from-where-you-live/314119 "2005-07-25T22:05:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-weird-store-names-from-where-you-live/314119/81 "2005-07-27T11:57:25Z")
> [@Spatial Rift 47](#): > > There’s a NYC/Northern NJ business called [Dykes Lumber](http://www.dykeslumber.com/locations.asp?topimg=Header_Locations.gif). Which I always thought was funny for the same reason as “chicken lips” or “buffalo wings.” 😉 I always thought it was funny because until recently, the one on Route 17 was right next to **Skinner’s Nuts**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Cerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerri)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-weird-store-names-from-where-you-live/314119/82 "2005-07-27T12:14:29Z")
When I lived in Hobart, IN there was a local watering hole not far from my house called The He Ain’t Here Lounge. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-weird-store-names-from-where-you-live/314119/83 "2005-07-27T13:28:20Z")
I really hope this qualifies. It’s all I’ve been able to think of. We were traveling through Arlington, Virginia on our way north and chose to go into town to a well-known restaurant from our motel out by the interstate. On the way there we passed Campbell’s Funeral Home. This was not weird by itself, but whoever had designed and executed their sign must have had a think for Campbell’s soup, because the lettering was a direct copy of that used on the soup labeling. We laughed at that until we were about to pass out. ---
**Author:** ![Seren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@Seren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seren)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-weird-store-names-from-where-you-live/314119/84 "2005-07-27T13:47:44Z")
I think my two favorite stores with weird names are in Hull, England. There’s a clothing store called F.C.U.K (which is all over the UK I assume, but the one I saw was in Hull) and then a smaller local women’s clothing store called Hussy. I got my sister a shirt that has “FCUK in Hull” typed on the front of it (my parents were not pleased…we thought it was hilarious though)…and my favorite part was the bag it came in which declared “FCUK Sale.” ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-weird-store-names-from-where-you-live/314119/85 "2005-07-27T13:49:53Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > I really hope this qualifies. It’s all I’ve been able to think of. We were traveling through Arlington, Virginia on our way north and chose to go into town to a well-known restaurant from our motel out by the interstate. On the way there we passed Campbell’s Funeral Home. This was not weird by itself, but whoever had designed and executed their sign must have had a think for Campbell’s soup, because the lettering was a direct copy of that used on the soup labeling. We laughed at that until we were about to pass out. Campbell’s soup is made from Soylent Green! Another weird NC business: somewhere between Knightdale and Raleigh there’s a place called Well, Well Drilling. ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-weird-store-names-from-where-you-live/314119/86 "2005-07-27T14:14:47Z")
> [@BurnMeUp](#): > > One of my other favorites in Hong Kong was a big sign that just said “Hair Potato”. It was on a side street with no building or floor number so you couldn’t figure out what it went to. It’s my moment of Zen. > > In Taiwan there have these great creampuff stands that sell nothing but creampuffs. My favorite was named Beard Papa and the logo looked kind of like Hemmingway. All IIRC: In Hong Kong there is a store called Sogos that sells ‘Papa Beard’s Piping hot Pastries’. They were actually cold. You could see the flecks, of what I assumed, was real vanilla bean in the creampuffs, Yum. There is a store on Hollywood road in HK with the name of ‘Tak Kee’. It sells antique furniture. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-weird-store-names-from-where-you-live/314119/87 "2005-07-27T16:02:00Z")
In otherwise buttoned-down Des Moines, IA, you can find the **Flatt Tire Center** and the **Dick Pharmacy**. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-weird-store-names-from-where-you-live/314119/88 "2005-07-27T16:08:58Z")
Stratford, CT, is home to [Blase Manufacturing](http://www.blasemfg.com/blase.htm). I can’t imagine this is the best possible name for a maker of precision metal stampings. (“Your ball bearings don’t fit? Yeah, tell me about it.”) ---
**Author:** ![Pullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Pullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pullet)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-weird-store-names-from-where-you-live/314119/89 "2005-07-29T04:31:40Z")
A little hole of a bar called **The Office** Female: “Why are you so late getting home?” Male: “Oh man, I had to spend the last 3 hours at The Office!” ---
**Author:** ![sj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@sj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sj2)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-weird-store-names-from-where-you-live/314119/90 "2005-07-29T18:38:49Z")
We have \*\*Tacoma Screw \*\* and \*\*What the Pho \*\* in my neck of the woods. ---
**Author:** ![sj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@sj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sj2)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-weird-store-names-from-where-you-live/314119/91 "2005-07-29T18:40:06Z")
> [@Pullet](#): > > A little hole of a bar called **The Office** > > Female: “Why are you so late getting home?” > Male: “Oh man, I had to spend the last 3 hours at The Office!” In college, our bar was called **The Library**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-weird-store-names-from-where-you-live/314119/92 "2005-07-29T18:57:41Z")
> [@Ruckinge](#): > > There’s a Filthy McNasty’s in Dallas/Ft Worth. There’s a bar named Tipsy McStagger’s on Roncesvalles in Toronto. I get a kick out of it every time I visit my brother. ---
**Author:** ![Ludy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Ludy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludy)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-weird-store-names-from-where-you-live/314119/93 "2005-07-29T18:59:15Z")
I keep seeing billboards that have pictures of lions roaring or other animals looking vicious advertising for Killman Zoo :eek: Tempting, but no thanks ---
**Author:** ![Electrical\_Storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac8455/32.png) [@Electrical\_Storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electrical_Storm)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-weird-store-names-from-where-you-live/314119/94 "2005-07-29T22:42:04Z")
> [@missbunny](#): > > The first time I saw a Piggly Wiggly I thought it was the weirdest store name ever. I asked my sister if this was some kind of New Age-y organiic crunchy place and she looked at me strangely and said it was just a regular grocery store. I guess she was used to it by then, after living in the South for a few years. As far as I know, we don’t have Pigglys up north. Piggly Wiggly is a very old grocery store company here in the south; not many left. They were bought out by the H.E. Butt (HEB) grocery store company and they’re now called Wiggly Butt stores. 😃 [SIZE=1]::Silver1 dashes madly away from thread::[/SIZE] ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-weird-store-names-from-where-you-live/314119/95 "2005-07-29T22:47:27Z")
> [@sj2](#): > > In college, our bar was called **The Library**. 😃 Here in Tempe, there’s a bar/restaurant called **The Library** , the walls lined with shelves of old books. The girls who work there dress in sexy schoolgirl uniforms or naughty librarian outfits. It’s downstairs from Hooter’s. Up in Scottsdale, there’s a store called **Paddy O’Furniture**. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-weird-store-names-from-where-you-live/314119/96 "2005-07-29T22:57:29Z")
In the strange juxtaposition category, we have the little place just down the road from our new house, **Mayo Thai Kitchen and Donuts**. But for hilarious, there were my favorites from southern Japan: The big signs for the windsurfing equipment company, **Break Wind** , and my all-time favorite delivery company whose name was writ large (in English) on their trucks, **Lapid Expless**. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-weird-store-names-from-where-you-live/314119/97 "2005-07-29T23:10:32Z")
There used to be a store in my town that sold ceiling fans and other household items. The store’s name was **Enervations**. I stopped in once and had a chat with the manager, and sure enough, she thought that “enervate” was a synonym for “energize.” The store is gone now. See what happens when you piss off The Language Police? ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-weird-store-names-from-where-you-live/314119/98 "2005-07-29T23:37:23Z")
> [@Pullet](#): > > My orthodontists were **Drs. Hammer and Hook.** Not exactly a business name but funny. > > We used to have a restaurant called **[Murder Burger](http://www.daviswiki.org/Redrum_Burger)**. Damned funny in a town that’s heavily veggitarian/vegan/holistic. But, they wussed out and changed it to Redrum Burger. More family friendly, or some crap. Reminds me of the burger place in Venice, CA, called The Cow’s End. In my own neighborhood we have a Tapioca Express, so I know where to go for all my tapioca needs. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-weird-store-names-from-where-you-live/314119/99 "2005-07-29T23:57:15Z")
> [@sj2](#): > > In college, our bar was called **The Library**. 😃 Santa Monica has a bar named Father’s Office, and another one called The Library Alehouse. ---
**Author:** ![Gotfrogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/da6949/32.png) [@Gotfrogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gotfrogs)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-weird-store-names-from-where-you-live/314119/100 "2005-07-30T00:17:06Z")
We have a place here in the DFW area called ''In & Out Lube". It’s a quickie oil change place. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-weird-store-names-from-where-you-live/314119.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-weird-store-names-from-where-you-live/314119.md?page=6)