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Not terribly far from here is a business named Just Oil and More. It makes me irritable every time I pass it.
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Oh yeah, that would make me twitch, too.
In either Brainerd or Bemidji, Minnesota, there is the Cease Funeral Home. I also seem to remember seeing a sign in Dubuque, Iowa, for John Law, attorney.
I’m familiar with eateries in Illinois called Booby’s and Gross’ Burgers.
666 Cold Medicine. I presume it’s not popular in the Bible Belt.
There is a large supermarket out in Monterey Park (a largely Chinese suburb of LA) called Shun Fat Market.
And I don’t think they specialize in health food.
[QUOTE=Siam Sam]
My pet peeve is businesses that Use " 'n " instead of “and,” as in Tires 'n More.
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I don’t mind them, as long as they use apostrophes, not quotes.
[QUOTE=Ichbin Dubist]
There was a store in my hometown called OK Wigs. Has there even been a less inspiring store name? Yes, we have a whole store of just wigs, yes it is not 1965, yes the wigs themselves are mediocre and do not deserve superlatives. Come in before we kill ourselves.
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We had a Chinese food place like this near us: OK Chinese. My wife and I always used to make a similar joke about it: “Our food? It’s OK, I guess.” Go for the gusto, man! Call your place Excellent Chinese or Best Chinese or something. Labelling your product “OK” doesn’t really inspire me to rush in to try it.
[QUOTE=Siam Sam]
My pet peeve is businesses that Use " 'n " instead of “and,” as in Tires 'n More.
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Linens 'n Things is my favorite in this category. “Hmmmm, we need some…things. Now where could we go to buy some?”
[QUOTE=Manatee]
Linens 'n Things is my favorite in this category. “Hmmmm, we need some…things. Now where could we go to buy some?”
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Why at Pets 'n Things, Kitchen 'n Things and/or Computers 'n Things, of course. These were three businesses on three consecutive blocks in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. As far as I know, though, only Kitchen 'n Things remains.
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting]
I’ve always thought Blackwater was a particularly portentious name of a mercenary company that carries out murky and sometimes covert military-type operations.
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Especially given that it means raw sewage.
How about Kum & Go gas stations? The first one I saw was in Cumming County, Nebraska.
There is a used furniture store down the street from an apartment I used to live in that was called Knot Knew Furniture. The place didn’t even sell exclusively wooden furniture, so it didn’t have two puns in its name, it had two misspellings.
The only way that name would work would be if they sold wooden furniture and out of date intelligence. “Yes, I’d like to buy a dining set and the location of Manuel Noriega.”
[QUOTE=Derleth]
Especially given that it means raw sewage.
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And not just any raw sewage, either: raw sewage containing human and animal waste and all their pathogens!
[QUOTE=Alistair McCello]
There is a used furniture store down the street from an apartment I used to live in that was called Knot Knew Furniture. The place didn’t even sell exclusively wooden furniture, so it didn’t have two puns in its name, it had two misspellings.
The only way that name would work would be if they sold wooden furniture and out of date intelligence. “Yes, I’d like to buy a dining set and the location of Manuel Noriega.”
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You’re not working hard enough at this.
You see, a “whatnot” is a piece of funiture, made from wood and/or other materials. That word can also refer to an item that you don’t know, can’t remember or want a generic name for (e.g., “cocaine, condoms, hookers and whatnot”). The store name is “Knot Knew” or “Knew Knot – Knew Not,” meaning the owners just couldn’t quite come of with a definite name for the store that sells furniture, some of which hold curios.
Doesn’t it all make sense now? 
In my home town when I was a kid we had a “Lemmen’s Used Cars.”
I could never quite figure out if it was supposed to be humorous, or an example of someone needing to change their name.
There’s a place in Kissimmee called “Decent Nails.” Not “Happy Nails” (also in Kissimmee) or “Trendy Nail” (Kissimmee), but “Decent Nails.”
“Eh, it’s decent. No high quality stuff, but it’s better than Shitty Nails.”
Seattle just opened a new trolley service. It’s the South Lake Unoin Trolley or SLUT. Of course, now they want to call it a Streetcar; too late!
[QUOTE=picunurse]
Seattle just opened a new trolley service. It’s the South Lake Unoin Trolley or SLUT. Of course, now they want to call it a Streetcar; too late!
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I could kinda see some potential for ad campaigns though. “We’ll take anybody, anywhere!” Something along those lines.
I just have to share this: Ride the S.L.U.T.
This is funeral home near the street I grew up on. “Amigone” Am I Gone?
