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Best pub/ shop names ever!

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honeybeeq · 04/05/2018 22:06

Doing some research on the house we're moving to and it's very near to a pub called.. the Malt Disley!

I love it!! I'm having a bitch of a time with the letting agent and this house is very worth it but aibu to ask you to cheer me up with funny shop/ pub names?

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SisyphusHadItEasy · 06/05/2018 00:56

I used to live near a pub called "Back in an Hour"

Imagine it... Spouse hollers out "where are you going?"

"back in an hour"

Imagine the grief when he rolls in 5 hours later....

369thegoosedrankwine · 06/05/2018 01:05

Chippy in the dales called Chip in Dale...genius Smile

Local plumber called Flush Gordon Smile

Local mattress shop called 'canny beds'. Gotta love the NorthEast.

SisyphusHadItEasy · 06/05/2018 01:05

As for fictional companies, I always got a kick out of...

Dewey, Screwem & Howe, Divorce Lawyers.

SisyphusHadItEasy · 06/05/2018 01:10

And I forgot... Down the road from me is a Japanese place.

Fu King Sushi.

IJustHadToNameChange · 06/05/2018 01:37

Suck-Cess Tanker Services Ltd.

www.yell.com/biz/suck-cess-tanker-services-ltd-coventry-4466359/

"We are specialists in:

  • septic tank emptying
  • cesspool emptying
  • soakaway jetting
  • high volume high pressure jetting
  • unblocking of drainage systems
  • interceptor cleaning
  • drainage suckups and all related issues.

All our vehicles are fitted with washdown facilities."

IJustHadToNameChange · 06/05/2018 01:40

There was an Ugley Women's Institute, bit they got fed up of all the jokes so they call themselves the Women's Institute of Ugley.

honeybeeq · 06/05/2018 01:52

Amy's wine house is amazing!

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echt · 06/05/2018 04:47

The peerless Lord of the Fries caff on Flinders Street Station, Melbourne.

Also Victims of Ink - tattoo removals.

BikeRunSki · 06/05/2018 05:30

There’s a village in West Yorkshire called Friendly. They have a Friendly Cricket Club, friendly Working Men’s Club etc

tealandteal · 06/05/2018 05:39

This isn't the actual name of a pub near us buy it has a sign outside saying "House of Ale Repute"

Whatalovelymug · 06/05/2018 06:19

Gone now, but there was a sunbed place called ‘Tanya Hyde’ and a homeware place called ‘Deb n Hands’.
Also a place that sold fridges, ‘Sellfridges’.

jarhead123 · 06/05/2018 07:09

Fish & chip shop called the CodFather

UnicornRainbowColours · 06/05/2018 07:15

There’s a chin of pizza restaurants called a “peace of Pizza” they logo is a the peace logo it does nice pizza too.

UnicornRainbowColours · 06/05/2018 07:15

That’s in America not in the uk.

Lea18 · 06/05/2018 07:28

@jarhead123 Haha is that in Stanley

FrangipaniBlue · 06/05/2018 07:44

@BikeRunSki that's where I was at the time do it was probably one of those! Grin

EffthisS · 06/05/2018 07:45

honeybeeq there is a hair dressers not far from where the Malt is called "Disley Blonde"

It makes me smile every time I drive past.

DontCallMeCharlotte · 06/05/2018 07:57

Mooey89 I know the Fawcett Inn! I once broke a heel off a stiletto when I was cycling down Fawcett Road and had to go in there to make a phone call.

Mooey89 · 06/05/2018 08:05

I love that you were cycling wearing stilettos 😂

BikeRunSki · 06/05/2018 08:24

Chain Reaction - online bike shop
Various bike shop with names around “Cyclogical”.

CigarsofthePharoahs · 06/05/2018 09:12

Dog walking company near me - Scoop Dotty Dog.
We also have a kebab shop called Kebabish. I know it's not a pun, but I always wonder - why the "ish"? Are the kebabs not very kebab like or is the meat…

FearofFlight · 06/05/2018 10:09

In NZ there is a town called Bulls.

They have really embraced the pun:

Police Station - consta-bulls
Coffee on the MOOve
Scrapyard - Scrap-a-bull
Butchers - What a load of bull

etc...

IJustHadToNameChange · 06/05/2018 10:11

There's the Chinese restaurant in Shirley near Solihull.

The Shirley Temple. Smile

DontCallMeCharlotte · 06/05/2018 13:37

Mooey89 It was the 1980s so of course I was Smile

WishTheGroundWouldSwallowMeUp · 06/05/2018 13:44

LegallyBrunet

not far down the road from Frying Nemo, the is a restaurant called the Peppered Pig (its right next door to a nursery ShockGrin)

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