The Loin King
 

So, as everybody knows, the way to get your shop noticed is to give it a "hilarious" pun for a name. The worst/best of these are normally hairdressers and barbers with endless variations on the Curl up and Dye theme available.

So what shops near you have comedy puns for names and if you were going to open a shop yourself, what'd you call it to draw the punters in.

In Hove, home of Fatboy Slim, there's a barbershop called FatBoy Trims, written in the same font Norm uses, that's a pretty good one.

As for the thread title, I'd open a butcher's called The Loin King and play The Circle of Life over the PA all day, it'd be ace.

It would be a store with a sign in fancy lettering called "Mom Crap" and would have stuffed animals, collectable stuff like Boyd's Bears, wooden stuff, scented candles, you know the place you go to get your mom a gift, that place. We had a place like that. It's closed now. My bud and I would refer to it by that name.

Oh it's not a pun at all but I like stuff that is blunt and to the point and as the name for a place of business it seems funny. Like say your butcher shop. Call it "Meat". That would be it. I dunno why but I find that amusing. *shrug*

We have sandwich shops here called Eat. There's also the Big Yellow Box Company, which is a storage company and the Big Green Box Company who are a freight company.

You could have a market stand selling fish and call it Stand of Fish and be rude and surly all day.

I love it!

In this area, we have two competing funeral parlors.

The first is titled "Amigone Funeral Parlor."

The other is named "DeAth Funeral Parlor."

These are the honest-to-goodness names of the families that own each respective one. Talk about realizing your calling in life.

There's a Chinese place near my work that's called "Kung Food" but I assume that's one of the more common puns for a Chinese restaurant.

Amazing. :tpg:

There's a restaurant down the street from where I work called Delicious Vegetarian Restaurant. It's surprisingly good.

The restaurant or the food?

A restaurant just opened up down the street from me called D'ricuras. Supposed to be a play on how some people incorrectly say the word ridiculous. Either way, it caught my eye when I walked by it. The food sucked, though.

There's a place here in Vegas that I guess is some sort of pottery place called Happy Potter. The font sort of makes it look like Harry Potter when you drive by it. I guess it's supposed to make you go "wtf, Harry Potter?" and look at the place.

Down near the railroad tracks here in my town there used to be a very decent butchers shop that had some pretty good prices for their cuts and hamburger.

The place, of course, was called Bob's Quality Meats.


Edit: To appease Lurker's unending thirst to be satisfied and further pull my posts out to ridicule, there are several truck stops on the highways here in the midwests called Kum n Go.

Also here in Vegas is a Chinese takeout place called China a Gogo. Cute n' clever. I'm sure I'll think of more tomorrow.

Also, WolfDemon lives in Vegas. How have I never known this?

I don't know if that's a pun name, Grail. that's just what it is. Like the restaurant near here that's next to the train tracks, called Sidetracks.

I've seen an Eat restaurant out in the boonies, clearly not part of any chain or anything. Apparently the food is typical truck stop fare.

There's also The Ugly Mug which is a coffee shop, and Theodore's which is a restaurant. Now, I know what Grail's gonna say. "wtf Bob's Quality Meats is more of a pun than Theodore's wth lurker you're stupid." to which I say shut up and let me finish. You see, in addition to a proper sign there's the name of the restaurant on the two doors of the place. Well, sort of. It just says "Theo".

CLEARLY, a Dubble-quality pun.

I personally know a couple of guys who have a little lawn care business called "2 Dudes and a Lawnmower". They're not bad looking kids and the vast majority of their clientele are retired older ladies.

Come to think of it... I don't actually know if they actually mow lawns for a living anymore...

I would like to see a cheap barber's shop called Budget Cuts.

Down in Panama City (FL) there is a sex shop called Condom Knowledge. Always gives me a chuckle every time I drive by it.

Come visit downtown Regina and you will.

Also, I think someone should open Tyler Perry's House of Pancakes.

Ha, probably because I hardly ever post. And if I do, it's usually not about Vegas. For all the talk about "Sin City" and "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas," it's kinda boring here. That's probably because I don't make enough money. I only just recently went to see Penn and Teller after living here for almost three years, and that's only because my mom gave us a shitload of money for Christmas to see a show. :p

A woman at work recently asked me to look up the number for a Landscaping company named 'Lawn and Order'. I thought that was pretty cute.

Or a bakers called Everybody Loaves Raymond.