I always wonder how many prank calls they get asking for TP.
Remember Whiskey Dick’s in the Strip District? Is that place still around?
I always wonder how many prank calls they get asking for TP.
Remember Whiskey Dick’s in the Strip District? Is that place still around?
I’m more of a SouthSide drinker. The Strip was all dance clubs. I’ve been to Altar Bar there, but there were a ton of clubs that are now gone; Metropol, Rosebud, Whiskey Dicks, Touch, Donzis, Tequila Willies, The Boardwalk, Have a Nice Day Cafe, Banana Joes, Bar Pittsburgh, G Spot, Sanctuary, Chemistry, Stratus, Mynt, and Plutos to name a few. ![]()
Saw a place over the weekend called Thai Me Up.
A neighbor in Colorado had a small excavation business: “Cheap Hoe.” Up here in Bozeman we have “Auto Body Experience”…
I feel like I’ve seen several humorous porta-potty business names but the only one I can think of off of the top of my head is “Drop Zone”.
A former Pittsburgh takeout place offering Chinese/Mongolian food plus ice cream: Genghis Cones. (Their logo.)
One I saw in Austria: Studio Hairlich (a pun on “herrlich”, which means “splendid”).
I used occasionally to go to a fish and chips place called Rock’n’Roe (= rock salmon/cod’s roe).
And somewhere in the UK I think there is a Chinese business called Ho Lee Fook.
A Thai restaurant here in Honolulu is called To Thai For. No, we’ve not tried it.
A similar thread had the gynecologist Dr. Harry Beaver in Fairfax, Virginia.
In the Patpong red-light district in Bangkok is a gay bar called Screw Boy. I think even if I were gay, I’d not dare wander in there.
Dr. Beaver must be getting pretty old by now. He was (supposedly) practicing when I was in high school, 50 years ago.
Two I recall are Here’s Johnny and Johnny on the Spot.
I love Cluck U Chicken, and I really wish there were one close to where I now live. Best chicken sammichs.
On the way home from work, I occasionally pass the law offices of Angst & Angst. They specialize in family law.
There was an eating joint called The Greasy Spoon.
There’s a small chain of Squeeze Inns and Squeeze Burgers in northern California, and an even smaller chain of Squeeze Ins around Reno.
An ex of mine’s family ran a place in Wisconsin called Halldin’s Squeeze In back in the 70s or so, so they’re probably one of the first. The place used to be just Halldin’s but after truckers complained about tight parking and having to squeeze in, the name changed.
I haven’t read the whole thread, so sorry if it’s been mentioned, but there used to be a truck stop motel nearby in the Washington city of Tukwila off I-5 near SeaTac Airport named The Tuk-Inn.
There is a liquor store in NYC I thought was called City’s Liquors. It is in fact called City Sliquors.
Isn’t there an (apocryphal?) story about a liquor store near the Hoover Dam, with a sign “Best Liquor Store By A Dam Site”.
At least one guy there, a native pronounces it “Foe” like I do, I lived in San Jose for decades.
Or you can simply call it “Great noodle soup!”
I’ve never heard a Vietnamese native pronounce it “foe.” Maybe he didn’t want to embarrass customers?
There used to be Happy Lay Mattress Company in San Gabriel, but it wasn’t an intentional “funny.”
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