# Real true store names I drove by today **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 19, 2008, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-true-store-names-i-drove-by-today/457027 "2008-07-19T05:58:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-true-store-names-i-drove-by-today/457027/1 "2008-07-19T05:58:59Z")
I live in a part of Jakarta sometimes called “Kampung expat.” The combination of Indonesian sensibilities with a desire to appeal to rich foreigners by using English names sometimes leads to some fetchingly peculiar store names. Today, I drove by: FASHION SUICIDE OUCH! (a beauty salon/spa) LITTLE BAGHDAD (a cafe) SNAPY FROM AMERICA That last one may need a bit of explanation … it is an establishment that advertises very fast copying services - you know, they’re “snappy.” Something tells me they aren’t really from America, though. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-true-store-names-i-drove-by-today/457027/2 "2008-07-19T12:14:34Z")
I think I’ve inadvertently been shopping at “Fashion Suicide” for months. ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-true-store-names-i-drove-by-today/457027/3 "2008-07-19T12:18:17Z")
Somewhere I have a snapshot of a store in Accra, Ghana, with the sign JANKOFF CORNER. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-true-store-names-i-drove-by-today/457027/4 "2008-07-19T15:50:09Z")
In the good old US of A, we had a brushless car wash called The Hand Job. Big sign out front, too. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-true-store-names-i-drove-by-today/457027/5 "2008-07-19T15:56:55Z")
There’s a furniture store in Nashville named _King Frog_. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-true-store-names-i-drove-by-today/457027/6 "2008-07-19T15:57:48Z")
If they do waxing at OUCH! then the name is all too appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-true-store-names-i-drove-by-today/457027/7 "2008-07-19T16:01:56Z")
There’s a store in St. John’s\* called Hostyle, which can, I suppose, be read as ‘Hostile’, but which I always read as Hoe-Style. Oh, yeah, I wanna dress like a hoe. \*(Newfoundland, Canada) ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-true-store-names-i-drove-by-today/457027/8 "2008-07-19T21:06:56Z")
I drove by [Bunghole Liquors](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/18/excellent-liquor-sto.html) yesterday. Even though I understand the origins of the name, I still couldn’t help but be a little embarrassed, as my supervisor was in the car with me. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-true-store-names-i-drove-by-today/457027/9 "2008-07-19T21:10:04Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] I think I’ve inadvertently been shopping at “Fashion Suicide” for months. [/QUOTE] Honey, I own a franchise of that chain. There used to be a liquor store near the hospital where I work: “The Bubble Inn: bubble in, bubble out”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cherry2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cherry2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cherry2000)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-true-store-names-i-drove-by-today/457027/10 "2008-07-19T21:37:54Z")
There is an infamous liquor store out near Aspen called Beaver Liquors > **[Home - Beaver Liquors](https://beaverliquors.com/)** > > \[et\_pb\_section fb\_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” \_builder\_version=”4.16″ hover\_enabled=”0″ global\_colors\_info=”{}” sticky\_enabled=”0″\]\[et\_pb\_fullwidth\_slider module\_class=”home-slider” \_builder\_version=”4.21.0″ header\_font=”|||on|||||”... We also used to have a Cluck U Chicken out here, but that one is long gone. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-true-store-names-i-drove-by-today/457027/11 "2008-07-19T21:44:21Z")
There’s a bar in my neighborhood called Larry’s Liquid Love. It says it all on so many levels – Larry loves you, the liquid loves you, you love the liquid. Ummmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-true-store-names-i-drove-by-today/457027/12 "2008-07-19T21:46:49Z")
Many years ago (1994 or so) I passed by a store in downtown Philadelphia called CONDOMNATION. I don’t believe it’s there anymore. There was a gay bar in Ft. Walton Beach, FL, called “Miz Bubba’s Tire and Barbecue”, and a bar (not sure if it was gay or just gay friendly) in Birmingham a few years back called “Martha’s Beauty Shop and Chain Saw Repair”. Supposedly there was a gay bar in Huntsville called DICKS VANS DYKES that was closed by a threatened lawsuit from DVD, but until I have verification it sounds a bit urban legendary. Still has intriguing possibilities for the logo, though! ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-true-store-names-i-drove-by-today/457027/13 "2008-07-19T21:49:43Z")
There’s a small convenience store in London called [Fags And Mags](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/zuccos/london/city/fagsmags.jpg). They sell magazines and cigarettes, I assume. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-true-store-names-i-drove-by-today/457027/14 "2008-07-19T21:50:04Z")
I might have a filthy mind, but I drove past a [Legal Seafood](http://www.legalseafoods.com/) once and thought it sounded like a horrible double entendre. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-true-store-names-i-drove-by-today/457027/15 "2008-07-19T22:02:31Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Supposedly there was a gay bar in Huntsville called DICKS VANS DYKES that was closed by a threatened lawsuit from DVD, but until I have verification it sounds a bit urban legendary. Still has intriguing possibilities for the logo, though! [/QUOTE] Not the same story but maybe the [source.](http://www.snopes.com/humor/jokes/vandyke.asp) ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-true-store-names-i-drove-by-today/457027/16 "2008-07-19T22:58:49Z")
There’s a place in Glendale near the train station called T & A Seafood. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-true-store-names-i-drove-by-today/457027/17 "2008-07-19T23:07:12Z")
I drove by a [T&A Supply](http://tandasupply.com/index.php/locations) in Great Falls. Interestingly, it’s wholesale only. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Hokkaido\_Brit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d26b3c/32.png) [@Hokkaido\_Brit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokkaido_Brit)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-true-store-names-i-drove-by-today/457027/18 "2008-07-20T00:14:31Z")
Just last night I drove by “Men’s Hair - GREASE” And my favourite store of all, in a town I used to live in. “Boutique Grimmer Twin.” It was just so weird and arbitrary, the words they chose. Sometimes you can see why they choose the wrong English, like another store, “Foppish” - they obviously looked it up in a dictionary and mistakenly chose it over “Dandy” which would have been slightly more acceptable. But “Grimmer Twin”??? What does that have to do with clothes??? I went to my son’s school yesterday and one of the other mothers was wearing a t-shirt with a sparkly pink poodle on it, and the legend, “DOG wears hot fashions.” Hmmmmm. At risk of beating a dead horse here, I’m in Japan! ---
**Author:** ![meenie7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@meenie7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meenie7)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-true-store-names-i-drove-by-today/457027/19 "2008-07-20T00:46:27Z")
[QUOTE=Hokkaido Brit] And my favourite store of all, in a town I used to live in. “Boutique Grimmer Twin.” It was just so weird and arbitrary, the words they chose. Sometimes you can see why they choose the wrong English, like another store, “Foppish” - they obviously looked it up in a dictionary and mistakenly chose it over “Dandy” which would have been slightly more acceptable. But “Grimmer Twin”??? What does that have to do with clothes??? [/QUOTE] Maybe they meant to say “Glimmer,” like “It’s sparkly and shiny and fun!” Dunno about the twin thing though. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2008, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-true-store-names-i-drove-by-today/457027/20 "2008-07-20T01:01:36Z")
[QUOTE=lorene] I drove by [Bunghole Liquors](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/18/excellent-liquor-sto.html) yesterday. Even though I understand the origins of the name, I still couldn’t help but be a little embarrassed, as my supervisor was in the car with me. [/QUOTE] I wonder how often they are plagued by people who come in, pull their shirt over their heads, and then demand, in a faux Latino accent, “I need Captain Morgan for my bunghole!” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-true-store-names-i-drove-by-today/457027.md?page=2)