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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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MrsWhirly · 04/05/2018 22:31

Rock and Sole fish and chips.

The Wibbley Wobbly pub.

OwlinaTree · 04/05/2018 22:33

There's a barber down an alley in our town called Ali Baba.

Hippee · 04/05/2018 22:33

Come and join us on Facebook at Shop Horror - all the best punny shop names. My favourites are Driving Schools called "L's Angels" and "L Sid" and our local bra shop called "Fit to Bust".

Paintingtheroseswhite · 04/05/2018 22:33

When I lived in the Yorkshire Dales there was a (the only) pizza delivery company called "All Pizza's Great and Small". They had pink telephone receivers on the top on their vans

GrumpySausage · 04/05/2018 22:33

Not intentional choice of name I assume but I know of a solicitors called Wright Hassell.

Hobbes8 · 04/05/2018 22:36

There used to be a shop in central London that sold fancy arty things and called itself a gallery rather than a shop. It was called Galerie Singleton. I loved it.

ItsAliveItsElectric · 04/05/2018 22:37

A local carpet shop called Get Laid Professionally! Their company van has the same logo followed by...."Or just get gripped and felt " Grin

UrbaneSprawl · 04/05/2018 22:37

A hardware store called “Knobs & Knockers”

gobbynorthernbird · 04/05/2018 22:38

There's a Chinese takeaway in South Manchester called Wok this Way. And I saw a kebab shop in a seedy bit of Paris called McDonner.

SheldonCooper77 · 04/05/2018 22:39

Chippy called The Cods Scallops

LegallyBrunet · 04/05/2018 22:40

A chippy near Selby called Frying Nemo

TimeIhadaNameChange · 04/05/2018 22:40

My mum used a tv aerial company which guaranteed a “perfect erection every time”!

Ginnotginger · 04/05/2018 22:41

I followed a delivery lorry earlier this week it had a picture of a baby covering the whole of the back door with the slogan - about the only thing we don't deliver.

Also Estate Agents - Doolittle and Dalley.

321Bed · 04/05/2018 22:41

There used to be a shoe shop in Newbury called "Our soles" ;-)

HotSauceCommittee · 04/05/2018 22:41

The kebab van in Bristol is called “Jason Donervan”.

phlewf · 04/05/2018 22:41

There’s a take away on Islay called Peat zeria, had driven past 3 times before i got it.

IDoAllMyOwnStunts · 04/05/2018 22:41

Picture framing shop - ‘Well Hung’

Sillybilly1234 · 04/05/2018 22:44

Shoe shop called "R Soles".

SchrodingersCatepillar · 04/05/2018 22:44

There’s a Vietnamese restaurant in London called Phat Phuc. And a fish and chip shop in NYC called A Salt and Battery.

TheTroutofNoCraic · 04/05/2018 22:45

Pizza shop in Belfast 'Pizza the Action'

leighdinglady · 04/05/2018 22:45

I live on a road that has both a chip shop called The Cod Father and a barbers called the God Barber

IdaDown · 04/05/2018 22:45

I remember the shop Hobbes

Scaffolding company in Somerset = Tubular Wells*

*Mike Oldfield reference, if you’re a young un.

LittleBird74 · 04/05/2018 22:45

paintingtheroseswhite in Bedale 🙂

vampirethriller · 04/05/2018 22:48

Sell Fridges in Croydon (I think it's Croydon)
Star Crust Lovers pizza seen on a delivery van
Kumquat Mae used to be a veggie restaurant in Sheffield
Salt and Battery still is a chip shop in Sheffield

TinDogTavern · 04/05/2018 22:49

There used to be a guy in Leicester who had “The Short Fat Bloke who fits Tyres” on his van. That was fun.

And there’s a tanning salon in central Manchester called Orange Wednesdays.

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