Shop Names: Unfortunate or Clever

[Greygor]

One close to me

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lG2az5ut9w0/Swzbq7KiWCI/AAAAAAAAEDY/0tYd-FtRQx4/s400/Most_Unfortunate_Store_Names_01.jpg

Possibly of interest to the circumcision Thread

http://www.comedy-zone.net/pictures/images/signs/150503/cleaners.jpg

Spacing is so important

http://kensington.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/badname.jpg

Very descriptive

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu322/RobotNine/Trailer%20Trash%20Dolls/Store%20Signs/StrangeFunnyBizarreNamesStoresOutle.jpg

I'm sure more than one hairdressers has used this

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2561/3980877273_a332f7ffee.jpg

Woof Woof

http://www.shophorror.co.uk/photos/batterseacodshome.jpg

[Chacalo]

I love that big white house with the huge scissors on the front.

[CapnChaos]

When I was working in LA once, I went by this store.

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii21/Kentramone13/media1.jpg

[SteveFlack]

Woof Woof

http://www.shophorror.co.uk/photos/batterseacodshome.jpg

I don't get it.

[Greygor]

I don't get it.
it's very UK, a famous place called The Battersea's dogs home, now with cats

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/Battersea_Dogs_%26_Cats_Home_logo.png

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3340/3413871305_2ff2146bac.jpg

[LordKinbote]

When I lived in Poughkeepsie, the local Big Lots had a burnt out "L".

[SteveFlack]

it's very UK, a famous place called The Battersea's dogs home, now with cats

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/Battersea_Dogs_%26_Cats_Home_logo.png

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3340/3413871305_2ff2146bac.jpg

Oh.

[Kelly Tindall]

Two great ones in Montreal:

Indiana Jeans

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4088/4997038559_7dddbde0f3.jpg

and there's a place called 'Vag', but I can't find a photo of it. I think they do nails or hair or something.

[Urgur the Gurgur]

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e346/theenemycometh/funny/images.jpg

[Urgur the Gurgur]

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e346/theenemycometh/funny/penisland.jpg

http://www.penisland.net

[dEnny!]

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e346/theenemycometh/funny/penisland.jpg

http://www.penisland.net

I didn't get it until I saw the url. :nonono2:

[dEnny!]

We used to have a Chinese Restaurant called "Wok N Go."

On the sign it said:

It's only

Wok N Go,

but I like it.

[ernster]

there was a mexican/chinese restaurant in corpus christi, tx called "wok-a-mole."

[dEnny!]

there was a mexican/chinese restaurant in corpus christi, tx called "wok-a-mole."

I would have initially thought it was "Whack a Mole." Later figuring out it rhymes with guacamole.

[CapnChaos]

There was a Chinese place in the neighboring town from where I lived growing up called Big Wongs.

[Shane W]

Big Dick's is on the way to my sister-in-law's house. Stay classy Southern Missouri.

[jamestolliver]

Baltimore is famous for it's Crabby Dick's.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3164/2773316402_9c693204e4.jpg

[Foolish Mortal]

Some I found via Google...

http://i.min.us/ijhUVs.jpg (http://min.us/mvfT6qI)

http://i.min.us/jjlNJU.jpg (http://min.us/mvfT6qI#2)

http://i.min.us/jjlWq0.jpg (http://min.us/mvfT6qI#3)

http://i.min.us/jjlSak.jpg (http://min.us/mvfT6qI#4)

http://i.min.us/ijlSak.jpg (http://min.us/mvfT6qI#4)

http://i.min.us/jjm0go.jpg (http://min.us/mvfT6qI#5)

[Foolish Mortal]

http://i.min.us/jjm0go.jpg (http://min.us/mvfT6qI#5)

I looked up that last one. Apparently it's some kind of gas refinery company in Nigeria. :lol:

[Greygor]

http://i.min.us/jjm0go.jpg (http://min.us/mvfT6qI#5)

I posted this originally, then felt guilty and deleted but lets give it a go.

Obviously a lost in translation fail as the Chinese shop name is "Black Person King"

http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/5264/fashionin.jpg

[Greenville 90210]

There was a Chinese restaurant named "Double Dragon II" around here but it recently closed. :(

I guess that means that there is/was a "Double Dragon" in the New Orleans area but I've never seen it.

[Foolish Mortal]

I posted this originally, then felt guilty and deleted but lets give it a go.

Obviously a lost in translation fail as the Chinese shop name is "Black Person King"

http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/5264/fashionin.jpg

The thing people have to understand is 'nigger' has zero context in Asian society. They only got the word from 18th century white traders. Most have no clue about the word's historical and cultural context in America.

[Marc Lombardi]

Here's a Marble & Stone place a few miles from my house:

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6uo8mHsxu1qcankco1_500.jpg

[justjeffery]

The Dick Cleaners one is edited. I think Curl up and Dye is kinda cute...

[ClintP]

I wish I had a picture of this, but there was a planned parenthood place in Arlington, TX that had a sign that read, "Planned Parenthood. Parking in the rear."

[ClintP]

There was a Chinese restaurant named "Double Dragon II" around here but it recently closed. :(

I guess that means that there is/was a "Double Dragon" in the New Orleans area but I've never seen it.

#2 was better than #1...

[BenitoCereno]

We used to have a Chinese Restaurant called "Wok N Go."

On the sign it said:

It's only

Wok N Go,

but I like it.

I was going to say "we had that too!" until I saw who posted this.

[xyzzy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WB3rFT_dKE

Nothing particularly funny about it, except that people can't read it correctly. The woman at 1:30 is the best one.

[dankiely]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WB3rFT_dKE

Nothing particularly funny about it, except that people can't read it correctly. The woman at 1:30 is the best one.

bees?

[Foolish Mortal]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WB3rFT_dKE

Nothing particularly funny about it, except that people can't read it correctly. The woman at 1:30 is the best one.

I think it's one of those "brain" things where your brain tricks you into associating a group of letters for a commonly word like 'bread' for a less commonly used word like 'bead'.

If I were just walking along and just glance at the sign but not really read it, I might think it said 'bread' too. :lol:

[LordKinbote]

I was driving through North Platte, Nebraska about two years ago, and we passed a Christian radio station:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_HlrA8W92jyY/TWBESu9OOPI/AAAAAAAAAN4/LjOjwlj3jhk/kjlt1.jpg

Not funny by itself, but I think the maker of the other sign was being a bit subversive with his placement of the microphone:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_HlrA8W92jyY/TWBESzqlPaI/AAAAAAAAAN8/DrEbN-eKU18/kjlt2.jpg