# Punny business names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 23, 2021, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342 "2021-08-23T04:14:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/1 "2021-08-23T04:14:47Z")
Someone in my neighborhood had some landscaping done recently. The company they hired left a sign in their yard. That company’s name? **Lawn and Order Landscaping Service**. I also noticed a trailer recently for a business called **Just Nailed It Handyman Service**. Have you seen any good pun business names lately? ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/2 "2021-08-23T04:26:59Z")
The German food store that was (at least originally) based in Forest Park Queens bears the name “Forest Pork”. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/3 "2021-08-23T04:28:21Z")
[https://pinktaco.com/](https://pinktaco.com/) Pink Taco ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/4 "2021-08-23T04:31:34Z")
I saw this restaurant review last month and was mighty impressed. > **[Pho Cue, Manchester: ‘Everything it should be’ – restaurant review](https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/jul/11/jay-rayner-restaurant-review-pho-cue-manchester-a-vivacious-vietnamese-tribute)** > > A bad day out for Jay Rayner is saved by a truly vibrant Vietnamese lunch ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/5 "2021-08-23T04:34:01Z")
There’s an electrical company around here called Wong Brothers. One of their trucks carried a sub heading under the logo, “Two Wongs make a light.” ---
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/6 "2021-08-23T04:34:54Z")
There appears to be multiple companies across the country that are called **Peoples Natural Gas**. ---
**Author:** ![TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thegunismightierthanthepen/32/2981_2.png) [@TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheGunIsMightierThanThePen)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/7 "2021-08-23T04:39:15Z")
There used to be [a restaurant in Montreal](https://www.vice.com/en/article/vb7qwb/inside-vladimir-poutine-montreals-dictator-themed-restaurant) called **Vladimir Poutine** , where every menu item (yes, poutine being one of them) was named after a world dictator or politician. However, now it’s reportedly closed for good. In Australia, there’s [an event coordinator](https://mylittlepeony.com.au) called **My Little Peony** , a riff on the name of the media franchise _My Little Pony_. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/8 "2021-08-23T05:04:47Z")
I haven’t seen them myself, but I’ve heard their used to be a hair salon in Chicago, I think, called **American Hairlines**. Their logo was a pair of scissors resembling the old American Airlines eagle logo. They had to change their name after getting a cease and desist letter from the airline. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2021, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/9 "2021-08-23T05:11:24Z")
A dog-grooming shop in Seattle named “Doggie Style”. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/10 "2021-08-23T05:21:57Z")
Barbershop called “The Mane Event”. (Yes, I really saw that somewhere.) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/11 "2021-08-23T05:30:45Z")
When I was a kid, there was a gift shop in San Diego named “Just For the Halibut”. For years I thought it was a seafood restaurant because of the punny name and I was greatly disappointed when I found out it wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/12 "2021-08-23T05:36:35Z")
In Cartersville, Georgia, there’s a bail bond agency: Bond James Bond, Inc. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/13 "2021-08-23T05:41:19Z")
A Canadian trucking company is named Fluke Transport. Its motto: “If it gets there on time, it’s a Fluke.” ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/14 "2021-08-23T06:02:40Z")
A Thai restaurant in Honolulu is called To Thai For. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/15 "2021-08-23T06:17:50Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > When I was a kid, there was a gift shop in San Diego named “Just For the Halibut”. For years I thought it was a seafood restaurant because of the punny name and I was greatly disappointed when I found out it wasn’t. There was a restaurant here called “ghoti”. They eventually went away. I know that most people didn’t get the joke. ([Ghoti - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti)) ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/16 "2021-08-23T06:29:39Z")
A pet groomer called “Haute Dogs”. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/17 "2021-08-23T11:14:25Z")
It is with a sense of inevitability that I report: https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=%213m2%212sen%214v0%216m8%211m7%211sKVcusMLu__OEHTiGFTJe8w%212m2%211d50.8097962%212d-0.3701902%213f217.71%214f9.379%215f0.75 j ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/18 "2021-08-23T11:23:18Z")
My favourite was always a chinese restaurant in a suburb called Shirley, Birmingham UK, called the Shirley Temple. Also, if you’ve heard of the large London department store Selfridges, then you might find [this off shoot in a London suburb](http://london-tourist-guide.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/sellfridges-sell-fridges-shop.html) amusing. ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/19 "2021-08-23T11:24:36Z")
There is a hair salon where I used to live named Curl Up and Dye. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/20 "2021-08-23T11:35:49Z")
A Cornwall, Ontario dumpster rental company is named [Call In the Bin](https://callinthebin.com/). It’s a play on words of the Quebecois French “caline de bine”. A rough interpretation would be “Darn it!” - a milder curse than those clearly referring to articles found in a Catholic church. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342.md?page=2)