The USA version is Dewey, Cheatum & Howe, but I thought a better one would be MacAbre, Strange & D'Sturbing - could be lawyers or Funeral Directors, I suppose. My favoured large company name (which I occasionally answer the telephone with) is "Forces of Evil PLC. How may we help you?". 3:O)>
When my mother was young there was a dairy in town owned by a guy called Johnny Bull. The slogan on the back of his milk trucks was GET YOUR MILK FROM BULL'S
A Time to Kiln (pottery store)
Lawn Order (landscape gardeners)
Napoleon Boiler Parts (boiler supplies)
World of Woolcraft (yarn shop)
All Cisterns Go (plumbers)
Alan Cartridge (ink supplies)
Pulp Friction (juice bar)
You Should Be Shot (portrait photographer)
And in one of those weird coincidences, tonight's episode of Modern Life is Goodish (I'm watching them all in order again as a complement to the three new ones) features.....punny shop names.
For years in Longview Washington there was a Chinese restaurant called "Hung Far Low."
My inner twelve year old died a little when it changed the name after getting new owners.
Work on Castlereagh or Elizabeth Streets in Sydney and you’ll see people pushing trolleys of document boxes around branded with “Law In Order”. I believe they also provide the document management & laptops for major trials.
I made up a company to claim I work for when in social situations where it’s unlikely I’ll meet the people again. It’s a crime scene cleaning business named Out Damn Spot.
There is a Scottish furniture store called Sofa King. Not that unusual. But they had a massive billboard at Glasgow Cross emblazoned with “Sofa King…cheap. Sofa King…fast”
I've always dreamed of opening a haberdashery called Clothes But No Cigar. Perhaps with an adjacent shop for women's attires called Pretty Damn Clothes.
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Also, shout out to Mary Pawpins, an ace dog walker in Aldershot 🐕
I’d go for Vinyl Countdown if there wasn’t already a band with the name.
"Paintless Dent Removal."
(My dentist was both amused and annoyed by this.) 3:O)>
If anyone asks, this is because i don’t have the expertise to do jaw alignment work, but secretly, i am casting aspersions upon you as my rival
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Carter, Whey and Tippet - Domestic rubbish removal.
Tyred & Exhausted - Auto Repairs.
A Time to Kiln (pottery store)
Lawn Order (landscape gardeners)
Napoleon Boiler Parts (boiler supplies)
World of Woolcraft (yarn shop)
All Cisterns Go (plumbers)
Alan Cartridge (ink supplies)
Pulp Friction (juice bar)
You Should Be Shot (portrait photographer)
When I was growing up, when we went up nanna and grandad's in Blackwood we always got our chips from Lui's Plaice.
Much to my chagrin I recently noticed it had closed. However they knocked thru to the shop next door and reopened as....the Codfather.
Swear this wasn't deliberate.
My inner twelve year old died a little when it changed the name after getting new owners.
"Breakfast in Bread"
(nr.Crumlin; unfortunately closed) &
"A Fish Called Rhondda"
(Treorchy, Rhondda Valley)
🏴😄✌️
Phil Collins, plumber not drummer.
There is a mobile phone repair shop in my town named Show Us Your Crack.
Ministry of Hound.
I didn't win.
https://www.lawinorder.com/au/
La barbier de sa ville.
And a dog discipline school called "Wag 'n' Train"
(Formerly Flat-Black-and-Plastic.)
It exists online and in bricks and mortar in Portland! :)
"Shave and a Haircut, two Bobs"
Maybe only drummers will get that?.