# Wonderfully funny business names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 28, 2019, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655 "2019-05-28T16:47:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/21 "2019-05-28T23:12:55Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > It took a couple of months for Bob to get the name of the new Chinese place near our house: > > Moon Wok If I opened one, I’d call it Peking Tom. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/22 "2019-05-28T23:26:51Z")
A cheese shop: _C’est Cheese_ A skate shop in an old church building: _Church of Skatan_ (sadly now defunct I think) ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/23 "2019-05-28T23:33:14Z")
> [@iamthewalrus\_3](#): > > A skate shop in an old church building: _Church of Skatan_ (sadly now defunct I think) That building is up for sale. I want to buy it if only to keep that name on it. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/24 "2019-05-28T23:50:26Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Call Main Line Hooker Service when you want The yellow pages list a surprising number of escort services in my town. Sadly, most of them just provide escort cars for wide-load truckers. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/25 "2019-05-28T23:51:34Z")
A pet groomer named Haute Dogs. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/26 "2019-05-29T02:28:02Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > We had a Vietnamese customer at work. In conversation I asked her where one could get the best Vietnamese food in the area. > > Without hesitating she steered me toward What the Pho. > mmm And I’ve run across more than one “Pho King” in my travels. (And “pho” is pronounced something like “fuh?” in Vietnamese, helping with the pun.) This one isn’t really funny, as much as it is groan-worthy, but I really enjoyed a hot dog stand in Evanston on Dempster that was called “The Wiener and Still Champion.” It was around in a couple of incarnations from at least the mid-90s through the mid-00s. It always seemed like such a ridiculously long name for a hot dog stand, with a stupid pun to boot, but I loved it. (ETA:Oh, and another Evanston hot dog stand: Mustard’s Last Stand.) ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/27 "2019-05-29T02:44:26Z")
Not in my town, but when I was visiting Dublin, I seem to recall seeing a Chinese restaurant called Chin Fang. I’m not sure if I saw this myself or online, but IIRC, there’s a pastry shop, I believe also in Dublin, called The Queen of Tarts. ---
**Author:** ![UCBearcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/77aa72/32.png) [@UCBearcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UCBearcats)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/28 "2019-05-29T04:01:11Z")
> **[Kum & Go - A Fresh Perspective](https://www.kumandgo.com/)** > > Kum in for your old faves & Go out with some new ones. We've got more than what you think. Fine fresh food, fuel & more. Great gas and more at Kum and Go. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/29 "2019-05-29T04:03:33Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > A new Vietnamese restaurant in Keene, New Hampshire: > > Pho Keene Great! “Pho” is almost impossible to pronounce correctly in English because the word contains sounds that do not exist in our language. It sounds sort of like “pfah.” There’s a Chinese restaurant in my area called “Food Lee”, which doesn’t sound very appetizing and while I’ve never eaten there, I know quite a few people who have, and they say it’s very good, and as authentic as it could be in the upper Midwest. While chatting online with my BFF a couple years ago, he told me where his son had decided to go to college, and I pulled up the town on Google Maps. I found this restaurant name quite amusing, and eventually they went there, and they go back every time they visit him. > **[Al's Chickenette - Hays, Kansas](http://kansastravel.org/Alschickenette.htm)** > > Al's Chickenette in Hays, Kansas opened in 1949.This restaurant has a great tradition and atmosphere, combined with reasonable prices. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/30 "2019-05-29T04:07:55Z")
When I was a kid, there was a carhop place near my home called Dog N’Suds. At the time, it was a fairly large Midwestern chain that now has about a dozen locations, and you can still get their root beer in many areas. I’m mentioning this because the last time someone mentioned Dog N’Suds on the neighborhood’s Facebook page, I Googled it to obtain the information I posted above, and saw a link for a dog groomer whose name was close enough that the pronunciation was still the same. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/31 "2019-05-29T04:48:40Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > “Pho” is almost impossible to pronounce correctly in English because the word contains sounds that do not exist in our language. It sounds sort of like “pfah.” There’s no “pf” in it. It’s just /f/. And the vowel is pretty much an “uh” said with falling and rising tone. (So, sort of like “fuh?”). [Many audio examples here](https://forvo.com/word/ph%E1%BB%9F/#vi). ---
**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:** [May 29, 2019, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/32 "2019-05-29T08:08:54Z")
NM ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/33 "2019-05-29T11:44:59Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > It took a couple of months for Bob to get the name of the new Chinese place near our house: > > Moon Wok There used to be a **Wok Inn** in Back Bay Boston. There was a **Curl Up and Dye** Hair Salon in Providence, Rhode Island. I don’t know if it preceded the one of that name in the movie _Earth Girls are Easy_ or if it just copied the name from there. ---
**Author:** ![Jumpbass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jumpbass/32/147_2.png) [@Jumpbass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jumpbass)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/34 "2019-05-29T14:43:10Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > There used to be a **Wok Inn** in Back Bay Boston. > > There was a **Curl Up and Dye** Hair Salon in Providence, Rhode Island. I don’t know if it preceded the one of that name in the movie _Earth Girls are Easy_ or if it just copied the name from there. There’s a Curl Up and Dye in The Blues Brothers movie. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/35 "2019-05-29T14:45:39Z")
Went to a rock fest last weekend and their booths were all punny but the only one I can remember is the food booth called So Long and Good Bites which references Helena by My Chemical Romance. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/36 "2019-05-29T14:59:02Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > AAlso dealing with letter spacing on a sign, a local bar called the “Top Hat” recently moved. There wasn’t enough space on the new location’s sign for two words, so they crammed them all together: TOPHAT. It’s starting to become known as the “Toe-Fat.” Wasn’t he the villain in the original Hawaii 5-0? (played by non-Aisian [Khigh Dhiegh](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjJw8fy_8DiAhXIMd8KHQSiDJsQs2YoADABegQIARAK&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FKhigh_Dhiegh&usg=AOvVaw15KySxC68u86mBr6vvLqZ-)) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/37 "2019-05-29T15:13:46Z")
There’s a place near Utica, Illinois, (Starved Rock area), where there’s a sign on the highway for a place called “Two Girls and a Cupcake.” Now, I don’t _think_ that’s intentionally meant to be funny or a pun (I could be wrong), but I just can’t help but think “two girls, one cup” when I see that sign. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/38 "2019-05-29T15:51:57Z")
There’s a karaoke bar and restaurant in DC’s Chinatown called “Wok and Roll.” ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/39 "2019-05-29T16:38:36Z")
Vaguely related: funny restaurant names are a staple of the television show _The Good Place_. Here’s a [list of some that didn’t make it into an episode](https://twitter.com/meganamram/status/913642289834090497/photo/1). ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-funny-business-names/834655/40 "2019-05-29T17:11:35Z")
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