I drove by a new strip mall that is being built. It is not open yet, but there are already signs up for some of the businesses.
There is a mail & ship type store called "Goin' Postal" :lol:
It cracked me up, but I wondered if some people would be offended by it. (We are only an hour away from the post office that had the first big post office shooting.)
The only other time I remember laughing out loud at a business name was at a dog groomers I saw called "Doggy Style".
Any funny business names near you? Do people take them seriously or do they quickly go out of business?
kvrdave
03-25-06, 11:22 PM
Had a friend who tried to open a hairstyle place. While she was doing freelance work making money to rent a place, her cards said, "Curl Up And Dye"
Goldberg74
03-25-06, 11:25 PM
Not really a funny name, just a funny font choice:
Are they still in business? I would imagine they get a ton of people coming by to look, but wonder if it equates to customers. Hell I would rent there if they were near me.
Mrs. Danger
03-26-06, 09:53 AM
Real stores:
Florist Gump
Higher Ground (coffee shop)
Spearmint Rhino (gentlemen's club)
Title Wave (book store)
littlefuzzy
03-26-06, 11:01 AM
There is a Floral and Hardy flower shop in my city...
The Bus
03-26-06, 11:10 AM
There's a hair salon near here called Rape of the Locke.
TomOpus
03-26-06, 01:30 PM
There's a hair salon near here called Rape of the Locke.http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5149/locke0hv.jpg
"Say what?"
NatrlBornThrllr
03-26-06, 08:42 PM
This is the concept used for a sign on a local Christian bookstore, except on the storefront it's all one color.
http://www.hiswordav.com/logo_hisword.jpg
When it first opened, I wondered why on earth somebody would name their store "Hi Sword."
twikoff
03-26-06, 09:28 PM
we just had a thai restaurant open up the road named phuket
fishdude
03-27-06, 09:51 AM
This was always one of my favorites
http://xo.typepad.com/blog/sofaking.jpg
Giantrobo
03-27-06, 10:01 AM
That "Clinica Dental" sign reminds me of a WC Fields movie short where he was a Dentist. He was treating the tall woman and somehow she ended up on him like that with both feet in his coat pockets and her arms around his neck. It was clearly a cleverly planned sex gag.
David CopAFeel
03-27-06, 10:26 AM
I live by this bunhole liquors:
<img src=http://boortz.com/images/funny/bunghole_liquors.jpg>
I guess Beavis and Butthead made it popular but a bunghole is just a hole where you place a valve on a wine barrel
Vibiana
03-27-06, 10:37 AM
My ex and I had a place at Lake of the Ozarks, and we drove past Big Dick's on the way there. :D
kvrdave
03-27-06, 10:53 AM
Olympia Washington has a family restaurant called Dirty Dick's. I think because of the name they actually put "Family Restaurant" on the sign. :lol:
Kittydreamer
03-27-06, 11:01 AM
We have a "Hung Far Low" Chinese place in the downtown area.
namja
03-27-06, 11:12 AM
There is are at least 5 restaurants named Pho King in the U.S. (Oakland, CA; Seaside, CA; Alexandria, VA; Mountlake Terrace, WA; Sacramento, CA).
Vibiana
03-27-06, 11:17 AM
There is are at least 5 restaurants named Pho King in the U.S. (Oakland, CA; Seaside, CA; Alexandria, VA; Mountlake Terrace, WA; Sacramento, CA).
There used to be a "Foo Kee Chinese Buffet" in Kansas City North.
Tygan
03-27-06, 01:39 PM
There still is a Foo Kee...it just moved down a few blocks.
Vibiana
03-27-06, 01:46 PM
There still is a Foo Kee...it just moved down a few blocks.
I used to live in Gladstone, MO -- moved to Kansas in '97 -- haven't been up there in Foo-Keeng forever. :D
EddieN
03-27-06, 02:14 PM
Could Big Bone Lick State Park be considered a small business?
Didn't think so.
Vibiana
03-27-06, 02:17 PM
When I go to my dad's on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, there's a statuary business on U.S. 2 called "Bird Bath and Beyond." :D
Also, there's a minimum-security state prison in Newberry, MI (also on the U.P.) with a liquor store across the street that's called the "Prison View Party Store" and even has a neon sign with a guy behind bars in the window.
crankyman
03-27-06, 07:05 PM
in buffalo, we lived down the road from the 'amigone funeral home'.
Charlie Goose
03-28-06, 09:04 AM
Olympia Washington has a family restaurant called Dirty Dick's. I think because of the name they actually put "Family Restaurant" on the sign. :lol:
I went to a Dirty Dick's Seafood restaurant in Virginia Beach. They sold shirts, bumper stickers, etc that said, "I got crabs from Dirty Dick's!"
When Seinfeld started the soup craze in the 90s and all the sheep stood on line for an hour or more for a fucking bowl of soup, there was a place in downtown Manhattan named "Soup Nutsy".
Jadzia
03-28-06, 11:44 AM
in buffalo, we lived down the road from the 'amigone funeral home'.
That reminds me-- my sister used to date a guy whose family ran a funeral home and he worked there.
His name was Mike Baum, or as he joked "M. Baum".
Vibiana
03-28-06, 11:47 AM
I went to a Dirty Dick's Seafood restaurant in Virginia Beach. They sold shirts, bumper stickers, etc that said, "I got crabs from Dirty Dick's!"
In the spring of 1983 my senior class traveled to Florida for our senior trip. On the way back we drove through Mobile, AL and had dinner at Wintzell's Oyster House. I've lost track of whatever happened to mine, but we all got tee shirts that said "Fried, Stewed, and Nude". :D
DealMan
03-28-06, 11:52 AM
I saw a construction company named "Early Erections" working on a building on A1A in Daytona Beach.
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