# How about well-conceived shop names? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 23, 2010, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158 "2010-01-23T20:23:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/1 "2010-01-23T20:23:22Z")
Inspired by [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=549105) thread. Mine are all pet-related: Here in Portland there’s an aquarium shop called The Wet Spot. There’s also a kennel simply titled Stay. A few years back, in Seattle, I saw a pet grooming place called High Maintenance Bitch. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/2 "2010-01-23T21:17:53Z")
High Maintenance Bitch was a dog supply store, IIRC, although maybe they also did grooming. It’s shut down now, to the relief of some people in the neighborhood. There is a Doggie Style pet-grooming salon nearby, though. And a very odd one indeed is He Saw Her Paint, a husband-wife carpenter-painter team. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/3 "2010-01-23T21:48:45Z")
I’m rather partial to the local Thai restaurants “Hard Wok Cafe” and “Thai Nee Cafe”. Also bedding supplies stores “Back to the Futon” and “Holy Sheet!”. There’s also tableware suppliers “The Big Duck and Fish” - unfortunately seem to be closed now, they made nice stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/4 "2010-01-23T22:12:13Z")
I know a furniture store called “Sofa So Good”, which always amuses me. There’s also a Middle Eastern cafe called “Just Falafs”, and a garden ornament store called “Stoned and Plastered”. “Planet of the Grapes” is a wine merchant in central London. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/5 "2010-01-23T23:11:11Z")
There’s a hair salon across the street from my childhood church called “Curl Up & Dye”. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/6 "2010-01-24T00:08:10Z")
They closed up shop a few years ago, but I always thought “A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books” had a great name. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_Stimulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Digital\_Stimulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_Stimulus)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/7 "2010-01-24T00:13:58Z")
There’s a hair salon a couple towns away called “Wak-n-yak”. Amuses me every time I drive by it. ---
**Author:** ![Coalcracker0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b38774/32.png) [@Coalcracker0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coalcracker0)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/8 "2010-01-24T00:20:05Z")
We have a Chinese place called Wok N Roll. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/9 "2010-01-24T00:30:16Z")
> [@Coalcracker0](#): > > We have a Chinese place called Wok N Roll. We had one with that name nearby when I was in college. We used to sarcastically call it “Wok the Dog”. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/10 "2010-01-24T00:38:13Z")
The boyfriend’s camera shop is “The F-stop”, which I always thought was cute. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/11 "2010-01-24T01:56:05Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > There’s a hair salon across the street from my childhood church called “Curl Up & Dye”. This is my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/12 "2010-01-24T01:57:34Z")
Up the street from my old place in Paris was a salon called Hair France. I visited Zimbabwe a couple times. In Harare, I saw truck for an outfit that delivered cooked chickens called “Poultry In Motion”, and a trash service called ‘Waste Away’. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/13 "2010-01-24T02:40:59Z")
There is (or was - it’s been a while since I was there) a restaurant in Chicago’s Chinatown called the Mandar-Inn. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/14 "2010-01-24T03:03:40Z")
Years ago I kept telling friends and family that I wanted to open a fast food curry establishment and name it, _Hurry Curry_. Now I see [someone](http://www.hurrycurryoftokyo.com/index.html)has beaten me to the draw. Why do I procrastinate?!? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/15 "2010-01-24T04:08:53Z")
Used book store called Twice-Sold Tales. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/16 "2010-01-24T04:22:44Z")
There are several Vietnamese restaurants in America named Pho King. To get the joke, you have to realize that pho is pronounced “fuh.” ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/17 "2010-01-24T04:46:07Z")
There’s supposed to be a kosher chinese restaurant in LA called “Genghis Cohen”. ---
**Author:** ![MentalGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@MentalGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MentalGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/18 "2010-01-24T05:00:26Z")
> [@Coalcracker0](#): > > We have a Chinese place called Wok N Roll. When I was in college, there was an establishment nearby named Wok - n - Go. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/19 "2010-01-24T05:11:47Z")
I have seen a couple of restaurants recently, the Drift On Inn and the Come On Inn. I checked with Google to see if there were any furniture stores named Sofa King. It appears there use to be a few but none are in business now. ---
**Author:** ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/20 "2010-01-24T07:16:24Z")
> [@racer72](#): > > I have seen a couple of restaurants recently, the Drift On Inn and the Come On Inn. I stayed at the Snuggle Inn once. It was very cute. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158.md?page=2)