Near Salem, Indiana, there is a pet-grooming business named Doggy Styles.
A local fast-food Chinese take-out franchise is called You-a Carry Outta.
A friend once used to work in a college campus coffee shop called Where You Bean?
Seattle has a dog walking service named “Yappy Trails”.
In the 70s and 80s, Tucson had a bar called Tequila Mockingbird.
Also in the 80’s: a bait and tackle shop in Isleton, CA called “The Master Baiter”.
There used to be a Fools Rush Inn located in Little River, CA. According to Yelp, it has closed.
Hairdressers seem particularly prone to groan-inducing puns. I remember one called Jefferson Hairplane.
And there is or was a florist’s in London called Whoops A Daisy.
No such thread would be complete without a mention of my home town’s very own “Bunghole Liquors”.
Oh my, I drove by a hairdresser today with a punny name that I wanted to post here but I can’t remember it, I think it had “Cutt” in it and referenced a rap song and I don’t want to drive that way again just to find it.
IIRC they also had Turn Your Head and Coif
How about “Unbeweavable” for a hair salon in, I think, Gainsville, FL? There was a chiropractor named “Dr. Popwell” in Fernandina Beach, FL.
These were from about 15 years ago so they may not exist anymore.
Reading about folks who share a name with someone else in the public eye reminds us that no matter how unusual a name is, someone else will have it as well. I got on Facebook with the intention of finding one person, my former drill sergeant from basic training. I knew she would not be impossibly older than me, and because I had never heard of anyone else with her surname I thought finding her would be easy peasy. Not so much, I found at least two other women with her given name and surname, and had to deduce, from pictures, which was the right one. I did find her though.
A place in Harare, Zimbabwe where you could order chicken for delivery was called “Poultry in Motion”.
Agreed re hair-care establishments in the UK; I treasure the memory of one called Alias Quiff & Combs [Smith & Jones]. Likewise, in the same country, with fish-and-chip shops. There’s one such in Ryde on the Isle of Wight, called The Codfather – motto, “We batter anything”. The outfit’s sign shows a codfish standing upright on his tail – cigar in mouth, and wearing a fedora hat and carrying a tommy-gun.
There’s a cheese shop here in Tacoma called Stink.
There used to be a little bar in Seattle that was called Peter’s Inn. That’s what it said above the front door. About twenty feet away, just around the corner was a side door that read Peter’s Out.
I’ve seen their refrigerators on The Great British Bake-Off. Smeg is in fair-sized letters on the freezer doors. Made me think of Red Dwarf, too.
There used to be a Donald Trump listed in the Seattle White Pages, back when another Trump’s show was still fairly watchable. Seems like twenty years ago now.
Also in Seattle about that time was a Ronald McDonald. He was a child predator. Hope he’s still in prison.
How about Doody Calls, a dog poop picker-upper service?
Fish and chip shops! There was one I knew called Rock* and Roe.
*(For “rock salmon”, the euphemistic name for huss and other small sharks)
There used to be a small restaurant around here called Dew Drop Inn.
“We’re not #1 butt we’re right up there!”
Yikes, one of the topic links at the top of the page is “cooking with smeg”. That just sounds disgusting.
St. Paul used to have a coffee shop called Motor Oil Coffee Company. It was next to a car repair shop.
Chinese restaurant: Wok This Way (no footprints though)