Saturday, June 07, 2008

Fifty Best Pun Store Names

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5 comments:

Randy Johnson said...

Is A Change Of Hobbit still in business?

Doc Quatermass said...

http://www.otherchangeofhobbit.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Other_Change_of_Hobbit
Most of these are so so.

Curl Up And Dye comes from 1988's Earth Girls Are Easy.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0rNfZxgkH7k

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097257/

I don't think I could eat at a place called, Meat U There or Lord of the Fries.

Years ago I once told a college professor friend I was a great masturbator and he quipped that he should take me with him when he goes fishing.

A high school buddy took over a bar in West Liberty, WV (a small college town) back in the '70s and called it Stumble Inn.

Doc Quatermass said...

Bookstores came to mind when I saw this post. I seem to recall encountering some I can't think of off the top of my head that aren't on this list:

http://www.ioba.org/newsletter/archive/8(4)/addenda.html#punny

In Bellaire, Oh there use to be a funeral home named Dunnaway.

Doug Levin said...

Thai food places have gone pun crazy. In Portland, OR, there is Thai Noon, and ThaiPod.

In Berkeley, there was a haircutting place called Alexander Pope. Not quite a pun, but some sort of serious cleverness.

The bigger but less amusing challenge, palindrome business names:

Elite Tile
Yreka Bakery (an unbeatable palindrome name; Yreka is a town in California)

mybillcrider said...

Those are great. I guess only English majors appreciate the Pope one.