Someone needs to open a cheese shop in Nazareth, PA, and call it “Cheeses of Nazareth.”
ETA: Or a cheese shop, anywhere, calling itself “What a friend we have in cheeses.”
Someone needs to open a cheese shop in Nazareth, PA, and call it “Cheeses of Nazareth.”
ETA: Or a cheese shop, anywhere, calling itself “What a friend we have in cheeses.”
There’s a waxing salon called “Proper Puss”.
There’s one in Denver
I always thought it would be cool to have a gift store centered around clocks and watches, and call it “No Present Like the Time.”
My idea is to have a drapery and other cloth store called “It’s Curtains For You!”.
The town of Nixa, MO has an annual festival celebrating the lowly sucker fish.
There’s a network of healthcare providers in the area run by Cox Health.
Some joker ran an ad in the local paper, announcing that the festival would be sponsored by Cox, resulting in the…
My town has one called the Pretty Kitty.
My evangelical uncle used to run a painting business called The Holy Roller.
We used to have a hair salon called “My Son the Hairdresser,” but the owner either sold it or chickened out and it was renamed “Your Friend the Hairdresser.”
There’s also a muffin shop nearby called “Just Muffin Around,” which sounds both lame and vaguely dirty to me. I will never get over them not naming it “Much Ado About Muffins” in tribute to (or rip-off of) the Simpsons.
I’d like to see a fabric store called “Fustian Bargains”.
The best boat name I’ve ever encountered was a little red sailboat called Tomato Sloop.
There was litigation about he name of a pub in New Jersey. Buck Foston’s
Comedian Brian Regan has a bit about a truck he saw with the name of a roofing company on it. The owner’s name was Fiedler, so he called his roofing company
[spoiler]Fiedler’s Roofing Company
:smack: Regan: “How could you not call it ‘Fiedler on the Roof’? How could you not?”[/spoiler]
There’s a place in Rolling Meadows (on Algonquin Road) called Best Head Men’s Hair Salon.
I used to dream of having my own catering business - I was going to call it “A One Night Stand.” Advertising - Have your next affair with A One Night Stand.
I wasn’t all that inventive back then. Still ain’t, as a matter of fact.
A friend of mine recently shared a picture of a landscaper’s truck with the sign “Major Tom’s Ground Control”
I’d hire him.
OMG, I went to check on it and found out that they burned the Fork and Hoe down!
Just Desserts is a well known San Francisco bakery. Their desserts are sold all over the city.
A couple years ago in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood, a boutique doughnut store opened, called The Glory Hole.**
A couple of weeks ago, I was walking by it when I overheard this transaction between a construction worker and a couple of young women exiting the shop:
Worker: Hey, how’s the doughnuts from that place?
Woman: They’re incredible, you should try them some time.
Worker: Yeah, I been thinkin’ about it, but I wasn’t sure about goin’ in there. 'Cause of the name, y’know?
… and I wish I’d heard the reply, but by then I was out of earshot.
** Googling for their website for this post, I made sure to specify “doughnut toronto glory hole” ![]()
There used to be a mattress store in San Gabriel called The Happy Lay.
But it was just a literal translation from Chinese, and they eventually changed it.
The Old Goat Farm.