Yesterday I made the long drive out to Western Carolina University, and on the way back I was talking to myself (as I like to do on long car rides–when suddenly I interrupted myself and shouted, “Jesus!” and burst out laughing. I’d just passed an ice cream parlor called:
JACK THE DIPPER
It doesn’t help that I’ve recently read From Hell, a graphic-novel account of the JtR murders.
A long time ago, my boss got back from a road trip through rural NC, weak with laughter; when she could finally talk, she told me she’d passed a strip mall called
CUM PARK PLAZA
with an ice-cream-parlor/video store in it called
LICKS AND FLICKS
What other ludicrous store names have you encountered? Bonus points if they’re about ice cream.
Kum & Go - there’s a chain of gas stations with that name, and I cringe every time I see it.
For Christmas, my sister-in-law in Florida sent my brother-in-law a hat for a shop called “Master Bait and Tackle.” Got a lot of chuckles when he read that one out loud!
Ice cream? I got nothin’. No bonus points for me, today.
Down around in Oklahoma and Texas they have these gas stations called “Loaf and Jug”. For one, that doesn’t even make sense. Also, even if it did make sense, it would still be a rediculous name.
Somewhere on the backroads between Eureka Springs, AR and Branson, MO there is a seafood restaurant named “The Bearded Clam”. Being the sheltered, innocent maid I am, Stonebow had to explain what it meant. :eek:
Scroll down and you can see their slogan…
The Bearded Clam - Lounge and Eatery
:eek: again!
Bunghole Liquors on the Northshore in MA (I think it was in Peabody or Salem). Yeah, I know what a bunghole originally meant but it was still awful. It looked like a really, really old store, though, which I guess excused their awful choice in name.
“House of Discipline”. I was riding my bicycle along the main boulevard, and saw it. I stopped so hard (I wanted to look inside for… reasons.) that I almost got thrown over the handlebars because I thought it was…y’know.
It was a martial arts school.
Stupid House of Discipline.