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Amusing shop/product names

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Loomis

07:40 / 08.09.04

Sax - Funnily enough, playing at the fringe this year was someone who started doing stand-up in the open-mic thingies when I was at uni (and who was fairly rubbish) who was being touted as a possible Perrier winner. Rothkoid understands my pain. But I'm not bitter about the success of a no-talent person who wasn't even funny then and probably isn't now. Oh no.

Hmm, maybe I should do a show next year. The comedy stylings of a bitter Australian hiding in Scotland and waiting for the world to realise that it owes him a living.

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

08:19 / 08.09.04

A sandwich shop on Grays Inn Road called Butty Boys

And a launderette near Highgate, I shit you not, called Splishy Sploshy Drippy Splashy Washy Knicky Very Quickie

I'm not making it up.

hanabius yamamura

10:26 / 08.09.04

... someone at work just offered me a piece of a dutch chocolate bar called suck me ... tasted nice as well

Kit-Cat Club

10:49 / 08.09.04

Ha, I remember the launderette - though I remember it as 'Wishee Washee Splishee Sploshee Cleanee Knickee Very Quickee' - am open to correction though...

Gypsy Lantern

12:09 / 08.09.04

Speaking of kid's shows, when I was growing up there was one called Come On Kids. I can't imagine a name like that being used these days.

In London Bridge train station there are a series of posters for childrens discounts on train travel. They are unfortunately designed and unfortunately placed in the station so that, when rushing for a train, you don't notice the writing at the top that explains what the offer is but are immediatly hit by the strapline "Love kids for £1". What?!?

Persephone

12:16 / 08.09.04

For the longest time, the gas company here was called People's Gas. But then they wised up & changed that to People's Energy.

Mazarine

15:06 / 08.09.04

There was a place where I used to live that sold soup and hot dogs called Soup Doggy Dog. I was amused. Fashizzle.

_Boboss

15:12 / 08.09.04

there's (perhaps was) 'rude mercs' on the road between whitechapel and bethnal green, and next door to that, 'rude bimmers' (to rhyme with zim-zimma), both selling cheap german gangsta motors to wannapimps.

and a salon for old dears in worthing called, rather sweetly, 'lovely hair'.

Hattie's Kitchen

15:19 / 08.09.04

Two pub names that I forgot about - the infamous Golden Stool in Tottenham invokes lots of juvenile turd references whenever I see it, and Blackpool's premier gay pub, The Flying Handbag, which is aptly named after witnessing countless fights between beered-up faghags fighting over whose go it is on the pool table.

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

14:49 / 09.09.04

Kit-Kat Club - I bow to your superior memory, you are absolutely right about the launderette...I was struggling to remember it when I posted...

Multiple Man

15:34 / 09.09.04

There is a Chinese place near me called "Wok this way". Genius.

Loomis

14:10 / 22.09.04

The other day I saw another one I had forgotten: a betting shop in Edinburgh called Macbet.

Lilly Nowhere Late

21:29 / 22.09.04

The take-away on Albion Road in Stokey: Chickpizz! Chickpizz!

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