# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/41 "2010-01-26T02:50:36Z")
There’s is a motel\* called “One on the go”. - Of the “cheap-hourly-rates type” ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/42 "2010-01-26T03:28:27Z")
Doggie grooming place - [LaundroMutt](http://www.laundromutt.com/) Computer repair place in Maine - [Nerdful Things](http://www.nerdfulthings.com/) ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/43 "2010-01-26T04:39:29Z")
> [@racer72](#): > > I have seen a couple of restaurants recently, the Drift On Inn and the Come On Inn. > [@Meyer6](#): > > I stayed at the Snuggle Inn once. It was very cute. There was a Dew Drop Inn near my hometown. ---
**Author:** ![wolf-alice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9e8a1a/32.png) [@wolf-alice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf-alice)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/44 "2010-01-26T10:10:58Z")
There’s a sandwich shop near me called Northern Roll (I live in [Wigan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_soul)). [QUOTE=Aspidistra] “Holy Sheet!” [/QUOTE] I love that! ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/45 "2010-01-26T18:56:04Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Doggie grooming place - [LaundroMutt](http://www.laundromutt.com/) > > Computer repair place in Maine - [Nerdful Things](http://www.nerdfulthings.com/) Is the computer repair place in Bangor? Or, alternately, not far from Orono? Because that’s priceless. I love it. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/46 "2010-01-26T19:00:51Z")
There’s an Italian restaurant in Little Italy, Baltimore called “Dego Mama’s”. I don’t know how they get away with having that name. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/47 "2010-01-26T19:17:07Z")
There was a kennel/grooming place near us called Happy Tails. It was a rather happy place… Until they got accused of killing multiple dogs and the owner shot his wife then himself. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/48 "2010-01-26T19:19:06Z")
> [@Agent\_Foxtrot](#): > > There’s an Italian restaurant in Little Italy, Baltimore called “Dego Mama’s”. I don’t know how they get away with having that name. Dego is a city in Italy, I think the slur is more often spelled dago, but I’ve seen it both ways. ---
**Author:** ![Mooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooch)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/49 "2010-01-26T19:29:13Z")
I want to open a Mexican Restaurant and call it **The Mole` Station**. ---
**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 26, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/50 "2010-01-26T20:48:56Z")
> [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#): > > There’s is a motel\* called “One on the go”. > > - Of the “cheap-hourly-rates type” Reminds me of such a place (if it’s still there) in Milpitas, CA: Oo-La-Lodge. ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/51 "2010-01-26T20:52:34Z")
There’s a coffee shop up the coast in southern Maine called Brewed Awakenings which I think is cute. And I used to take my dog to a doggy daycare/boarding place called Happy Tails - I hope it wasn’t the one **lost4life** is referring to! ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/52 "2010-01-26T20:56:30Z")
I once saw a big and tall men’s clothing store in London called “The High and the Mighty”. And a baby-supply store in Dallas named “Daddy Did It”. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/53 "2010-01-26T21:01:22Z")
There was a Chinese restaurant on Boylston Street in Boston called the **Wok Inn** And a Japanese Bun shop in Arlington, MA called **The Ichi-Bun** , which wins prizes in my book for a double-language pun. There used to be a couple of places off Route 1 in New Jersey called **The Inn Between** and (I kid you not) **The Dew Drop Inn**. ---
**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 26, 2010, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/54 "2010-01-26T21:15:48Z")
When I was going to Penn State, there was coffee shop in State College called the Daily Grind. It sounds kind of “meh” now but it was clever back in 1991. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/55 "2010-01-26T21:18:10Z")
There used to be a bar next to the Shaughnessy Dam north of Columbus. It was named “By A Dam Site”. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/56 "2010-01-27T02:23:50Z")
My favorite local example is a dog-washing place: **You Dirty Dog**. ---
**Author:** ![Incref](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@Incref](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incref)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/57 "2010-01-27T04:20:27Z")
There is a garden place around here called\*\* The Plot Thickens. \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/58 "2010-01-27T06:21:42Z")
[PWP Accounting](http://www.weblocal.ca/pwp-accounting-inc-burnaby-bc.html). It stands for “People With Pencils,” which I find funnier than I should, probably. (I think it’s because it seems so unaccountably unaccountantly.) ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/59 "2010-01-27T11:58:12Z")
> [@Surly\_Chick](#): > > There’s a coffee shop up the coast in southern Maine called Brewed Awakenings which I think is cute. And I used to take my dog to a doggy daycare/boarding place called Happy Tails - I hope it wasn’t the one **lost4life** is referring to! This one was in Knoxville, so hopefully not. [QUOTE=ElvisL1ves;] There used to be a bar next to the Shaughnessy Dam north of Columbus. It was named “By A Dam Site”. [/QUOTE] Michigan has a **Dam Site Inn** …but this one was in [HELL!](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=hell,mi&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Hell,+MI&gl=us&ei=5SlgS67HA8SXtgetr4nZDQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CAgQ8gEwAA) ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Stilettos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Red\_Stilettos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Stilettos)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158/60 "2010-01-27T15:18:08Z")
A car repair shop called Wreck-a-Mended. It’s in Rainsville, AL (or very near there). Extra points for the double meaning. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-well-conceived-shop-names/526158.md?page=4)