# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/81 "2021-09-15T22:45:18Z")
There was a “Cluck You Chicken” in the SF Bay Area, though I think they were forced to change their name to “University Chicken”. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/82 "2021-09-15T22:47:29Z")
Though my favourite was the Eritrean-Irish (yes, really) food truck in San Francisco called Eire-atrea. Never actually ate at it thought (I mean surely and Irish food truck is just a chip van?) Though I guess that’s word play, not a pun? ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/83 "2021-09-15T23:22:09Z")
Locally, we’ve had a hair salon called Curl Up & Dye and a bait shop called Master Bait & Tackle. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/84 "2021-09-15T23:37:21Z")
I think I posted this before. In parts of the South, the name “Kerr” is pronounced “car”. Therefore, the carwash on Kerr Avenue in Wilmington, North Carolina was named the “Kerr Wash”. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/85 "2021-09-17T16:46:40Z")
There was (is?) a beauty salon in Royal Oak, Michigan on the second floor of a building called “Upstares”. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2021, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/86 "2021-09-18T12:38:22Z")
So far we have had three posts for local hair salons called Curl Up and Dye. I did a search and there are a lot of them, apparently even used on The Simpsons. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2021, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/87 "2021-09-18T23:03:25Z")
There used to be a restaurant in Minneapolis called the Rainbow. A maternity shop upstairs was obviously called Over the Rainbow. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2021, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/88 "2021-09-19T11:54:47Z")
Montreal has a jazz bar called “Upstairs”. It’s below street level, so you have to go downstairs. Its big sign reading “Upstairs” is upside down. ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/89 "2021-09-24T00:58:50Z")
It was also in the movie Earth Girls are Easy with Geena Davis, Julie Brown, Jeff Goldblum, Damon Wayans, and Jim Carrey. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342/90 "2021-09-27T23:34:04Z")
It was also used in the movie _Blues Brothers_ years ago. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-business-names/949342.md?page=4)