Silly Commuting Shop Names

prawny

Tenuous commution link alert!

Who has the best comedy shop names on their route to work?

My fave so far is a grocers called MelonCaulie in Great Barr.

There must be some pearlers in london town.

jonginge

Argh. That's the second time in a couple of hours something has made me think of the smashing pumpkins. Off to spotify...

prawny

JonGinge wrote:

Argh. That's the second time in a couple of hours something has made me think of the smashing pumpkins. Off to spotify...

Was the otherone some halloween vandalism? Ooh the vandals

King Donut

My mate lived opposite a fridge shop in Stoke Newington called WeSell Fridges. I believe a photo got sent round as a viral a couple of years back.

DonDaddyD

Not on my commute but in Derby (Saddlers Gate) a few years back there was a childrens clothing shop that was named Batties... that always made me chuckle...

TommyEss

There was a fish and chip shop in my old village called "The Last Resort"

It's closed now, because everyone realised the chippy in Rothley was approximately 9765 times better.

prawny

DonDaddyD wrote:

Not on my commute but in Derby (Saddlers Gate) a few years back there was a childrens clothing shop that was named Batties... that always made me chuckle...

yeah to be fair I only included to commute reference so it didn;t get booted to cake stop, Attica and BJUK have made up some good ones too, these are also welcome. I need cheering up, I thought it was wednesday today

DonDaddyD

prawny wrote:

DonDaddyD wrote:

Not on my commute but in Derby (Saddlers Gate) a few years back there was a childrens clothing shop that was named Batties... that always made me chuckle...

yeah to be fair I only included to commute reference so it didn;t get booted to cake stop, Attica and BJUK have made up some good ones too, these are also welcome. I need cheering up, I thought it was wednesday today

You mean its Tuesday!?

:x

cedargreen

Used to be a shop near Condor Cycles called 'Galerie Singleton'

Clever Pun

JonGinge wrote:

Argh. That's the second time in a couple of hours something has made me think of the smashing pumpkins. Off to spotify...

don't listen to anything past Mellon Collie

jonginge

Clever Pun wrote:

JonGinge wrote:

Argh. That's the second time in a couple of hours something has made me think of the smashing pumpkins. Off to spotify...

don't listen to anything past Mellon Collie

Agreed. Got Adore and Machina kicking about somewhere. Very few listens

attica

Clever Pun wrote:

don't listen to anything past Mellon Collie

+1

Incidentally the shop I thought up was a Tea shop called Teacake Maxx.

Never seen a gentlemens barbers called Something for the Weekend, but surely it must exist somewhere

MonkeyMonster

There's one round the corner from me called Hair Apparent.

tgotb

I once drove through a village in Shropshire called Knockin. The village shop had a big sign outside proclaiming "Knockin Shop"

Clever Pun

JonGinge wrote:

Clever Pun wrote:

JonGinge wrote:

Argh. That's the second time in a couple of hours something has made me think of the smashing pumpkins. Off to spotify...

don't listen to anything past Mellon Collie

Agreed. Got Adore and Machina kicking about somewhere. Very few listens

there's a newer one as well I think, I've not even bothered with that.

jonginge

MonkeyMonster wrote:

There's one round the corner from me called Hair Apparent.

Rush Hair on moorgate

Flasheart

Pet grooming salon in the next Village called Doggy Fashion

blakef111

saw a greek restaurant in london called just-falafs, i thought that was a fun name

Specialized Needs

Both on commute:

Curl up and Dry (Hairdresser, New Cross, London)

Beddy Buyz (hopefully obvious :roll: East Street, London)

moonio

cedargreen wrote:

Used to be a shop near Condor Cycles called 'Galerie Singleton'

Yes it was owned by Valerie Singleton

There used to be a secondhand shop somewhere in London called 'Past Caring'

Oh and the local sandwich shop is called 'Butty boys'

Also but not on my commute, there used to be black barbers shop in Harlem NY called 'Hung low and far'

grayo59

Not a shop - but a window cleaner's van says:-

Lord of the Rungs

facemunk

Tooting has one called Taki-casuals
(clothes obv)

edhornby

in alderley edge there used to be a grocers called Alderley Veg

NGale

About 20 years ago my local fish and chip shop was owned by the Fryer family (still own it in fact) and next door in the grocers shop were the Greens.

We have a dress shop in Exeter called 'Frock Off'....makes me smile

bill_gates

Local shop in my town has the name 'Phyllis'.

I'm surprised that no witty youngster has added some cleverly placed graffiti to it. :shock:

bill_gates

Local shop in my town has the name 'Phyllis'.

I'm surprised that no witty youngster has added some cleverly placed graffiti to it. :shock:

tailwindhome

Slighty OT



It helps if you know that Finaghy is on the outskirts of Belfast and that it's pronounced Fin-a-hee

cyclopsbiker

King Donut wrote:

My mate lived opposite a fridge shop in Stoke Newington called WeSell Fridges. I believe a photo got sent round as a viral a couple of years back.

that shop is still there....makes me laugh everytime I pass it [on a bus as its not on my normal commute]

gert_lush

in Bristol there is pieminister pies

have seen a rhythm and booze oflicense somewhere too

I always wanted a cake shop called "cake me up before you go go"

SmellTheGlove

Not on my commute I admit, but there's the shoe shop on Kings Road London, same side as Chelsea Town Hall, the immortal "R Soles".

attica

Not actually a shop name but this makes me laugh, the company I work for recently acquired another company - RSE Consulting.

Their e-mail addresses all look like name@rseConsulting.co....
(read the @ as an a)

I kid you not