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Iain 05.15.2007 12:45 PM

Best shop puns.
 
I love a shop with a good pun for a title as I am sure you all do. Please, share the best ones. I'll start.

Planet of the Grapes (A wine merchant on Oxford St, London)
The Codfather (Fish and Chip Shop, Cardiff)
Pieminister (Pie shop, Bristol)

and my favourite:

Baguetti Junction (Sandwich Shop, Cardiff)

There is another good fish and chip shop one in Cardiff but I can't remember it.

Toilet & Bowels 05.15.2007 12:54 PM

there's a shop on hacjkney road called "bag ally", which i suspect is supposed to be bag alley.

pantophobia 05.15.2007 01:24 PM

there is a coffee shop in Gaithersburg called 'Java the Hut'

the best though is 'Madam's Organ' in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of DC

these are not puns but i have to share two different greasy looking restaurants on Georgia Ave, "Senor Pollo" translated into Mr. Chicken and of course

Wonder Chicken!

MellySingsDoom 05.15.2007 01:48 PM

Endless amounts of sub-KFC shops called "Chick King". See what they did there?

I wonder whether, anywhere in the world, there's a Turkish breads shop called "Pida-Phile"?

Glice 05.15.2007 04:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Iain
Pieminister (Pie shop, Bristol)



The pub I have my Friday lunchtime pint in serves pieminister pies. They are very, very good pies.

Bristol also has my very favourite chip shop name ever: The Starchip Enterprise. There used to be one called the Cod almighty, but that was removed - can't remember where that was, somewhere Bristol/ Somerset ways.

There's also my old favourite off-licence: Booze nest. Personal reasons, you understand.

Danny Himself 05.15.2007 04:25 PM

Abra Kebabra
Pizza the Action

the ikara cult 05.15.2007 06:11 PM

I have also seen an abrakebabra, and we should mention the fast food outlet in The League of Gentlemen called "Burger Me"

However, this sign i saw once takes the biscuit.
I walked past a camping shop in Newcastle in about November a few years ago, and there was a picture of William Shakespeare with a speech bubble coming from his mouth, and the speech bubble said:
"Now is the winter of our discount tents".

screamingskull 05.15.2007 06:14 PM

my grandfather used to run this company called Castle that made selotape and packaging materials.

Their slogans were

"you can wrap a parcel with Castle"
and
"there's no hassle with Castle"

Iain 05.15.2007 09:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by the ikara cult
I have also seen an abrakebabra, and we should mention the fast food outlet in The League of Gentlemen called "Burger Me"

However, this sign i saw once takes the biscuit.
I walked past a camping shop in Newcastle in about November a few years ago, and there was a picture of William Shakespeare with a speech bubble coming from his mouth, and the speech bubble said:
"Now is the winter of our discount tents".


YES. This is the best one yet!

There is a Cod Almighty in Cardiff, I've remembered now. That was the other one I was thinking of.

Someone also told me that there's a halal butchers in Cardiff called Pak Butcher but I'm not sure I believe them.

Iain 05.15.2007 09:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Glice
The pub I have my Friday lunchtime pint in serves pieminister pies. They are very, very good pies.

Bristol also has my very favourite chip shop name ever: The Starchip Enterprise. There used to be one called the Cod almighty, but that was removed - can't remember where that was, somewhere Bristol/ Somerset ways.

There's also my old favourite off-licence: Booze nest. Personal reasons, you understand.


Starchip Enterprise is a good one.

I have heard only good things about Pieminister pies but I have yet to taste one. I'll probably be in Bristol at the end of the month so I'll sample one then.

Savage Clone 05.15.2007 09:51 PM

There's a fish place here called Just For The Halibut. Makes me cringe every time I see it.

!@#$%! 05.15.2007 09:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pantophobia
the best though is 'Madam's Organ' in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of DC


oh yes. cokehead central! i went there only once, for a friend's bachelor party. loved the debauchery but not the crowd.

i love their mural



 


and their "sorry we're open" sign too



 


Quote:

Originally Posted by Savage Clone
There's a fish place here called Just For The Halibut. Makes me cringe every time I see it.


ack, that truly is terrible

Everyneurotic 05.15.2007 10:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by !@#$%!
oh yes. cokehead central! i went there only once, for a friend's bachelor party. loved the debauchery but not the crowd.

i love their mural




 


and their "sorry we're open" sign too




 



...


respect man, that's one of the first places the bad brains ever played.

!@#$%! 05.15.2007 10:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Everyneurotic
respect man, that's one of the first places the bad brains ever played.


it's not that kind of place anymore, im afraid. hasn't been in a long time is my guess. a lot of aging drunkards mostly. not pretty. :(

Everyneurotic 05.15.2007 10:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by !@#$%!
it's not that kind of place anymore, im afraid. hasn't been in a long time is my guess. a lot of aging drunkards mostly. not pretty. :(


i could've guessed, like that one time like 10 years ago that i went to cbgbs and the whole place was stamped with nu metal band stickers.

it's not the places, but the people who do stuff. still, it's nice to gaze at the ruins of a certain time, anthropology, anyone?

!@#$%! 05.15.2007 10:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Everyneurotic
it's not the places, but the people who do stuff. still, it's nice to gaze at the ruins of a certain time, anthropology, anyone?


archaeology you mean? well, madam's organ is the place to go for granny sex. :D

Everyneurotic 05.15.2007 10:37 PM

i meant more like the deduction of a culture thing, if you want to just study the stones and rubble, yeah then go ahead with archeology.

!@#$%! 05.15.2007 10:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Everyneurotic
i meant more like the deduction of a culture thing, if you want to just study the stones and rubble, yeah then go ahead with archeology.


oh you said ruins, i said granny sex :p

Everyneurotic 05.15.2007 10:44 PM

so what's the science for that called? there certainly is a correlation.

ps: you bolted on our peter sellers conversation the other day.

sarramkrop 05.16.2007 05:01 AM

Soap Opera. It's a laundrette.


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