The 50 Best Pun Stores
07 Jun
Written by Michelle Collins
Pun stores. Stores with puns in the title. Bet you didn’t think we could rank the 50 best ones. But you didn’t even think there were 50. Well guess again. BWE.tv has scoured the internet and pulled together the 50 Best Pun Establishments. And here we go:
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46 More Pun Stores (Seriously) After the cut.
And they’re pretty much all brilliant.
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Comments time! Let us know your favorite pun store titles below.
80 Responses
Alex
June 8th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
1It’s kinda late.. where’s June 8?
jena
June 8th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
2lox stock and bagel is in champaign and has been closed for several years, its such a cool looking building though still
The 50 Best Pun Shops :
June 9th, 2008 at 3:32 am
3[...] Here. [...]
Kathleen
June 9th, 2008 at 7:49 am
4There’s a Thai food place in South Carolina called Thaicoon, in the spirit of # 17
Denver Web design
June 9th, 2008 at 8:13 am
5In a drive back from Denver I saw a construction truck with the sign on the side “Well Hung: Windows and Doors”… just priceless
Naomi
June 9th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
6a couple clever ones I’ve seen (both bikes shops oddly enough): “Cyclepath” and “Out Spoke’n”
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June 11th, 2008 at 1:07 am
7[...] stores with puns in their names. Genius! Possibly related posts: Aside: OrikasoWho Wouldn’t Love [...]
Firehat
June 11th, 2008 at 7:50 am
8two of my favorites:
Cycle Therapy (bike shop, now closed I think, in Colorado Springs)
The Best Little Warehouse in Texas (self-storage, in San Antonio)
Maxie
June 11th, 2008 at 10:57 am
9I think every town in the U.S. has a Best Little Hair House in [anytown], so that one annoys me.
sue
June 11th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
10There’s a “Pho King” somewhere in Orange County, CA, I’ve been told. I hope it’s real and not an urban legend.
Claude
June 11th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
11Polynesian Restaurant in Hewlett, NY: Fu’s Rush Inn
Treyf Vixen
June 12th, 2008 at 5:02 am
12How about Shang Chai - kosher chinese restaurant in Brooklyn (for those hebrew impaired folks - chai means ‘life’)
Mr. Dog
June 12th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
13I live in Woodstock NY, and we have a place called Hip e Living. They sell tree hugger housewares.
Laura
June 12th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
14There is (was?) a Chinese-Tex-Mex fusion place in San Antonio call Wok-a-Molé.
Jan
June 13th, 2008 at 5:52 am
15There’s a steakgrill restaurant in Leuven, Belgium called The Meating Room: http://www.meatingroom.be/
kevin
June 13th, 2008 at 6:44 am
16My favorite was a caterer I saw in Maine named “Food Forethought”
Dave
June 13th, 2008 at 7:13 am
17In upstate NY we have the “Hair Port” and in Wisconsin there’s a “Yarn It All”
Paul
June 13th, 2008 at 7:13 am
18There’s an adult store in town: Venus Envy
Best. Name. Ever.
Dan
June 13th, 2008 at 10:55 am
19Nearby bar out in the sticks where I live (in the spirit of 46): Stumblin’ Inn
Then there’s the oriental restaurant here in Rochester NY that’s been featured on Jay Leno: House of Poon
Me
June 13th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
20Grill From Ipanema, D.C.
Yuigi
June 13th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
21There’s a Vietnamese noodle shop in Bellevue, WA called What the Pho? — believe it or not.
Diana
June 13th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
22In Bellevue, WA there’s a Vietnamese restaurant called “What the Pho?”
Sean
June 15th, 2008 at 6:00 am
23There is an ice cream place in southern Ohio called Custard’s Last Stand.
Patrick in Toms River
June 15th, 2008 at 8:54 am
24There was a pet grooming business on Rt 22 in Whitehouse Station, NJ entitled LaundraMutt. I laughed everytime I drove past the place.
Thos Weatherby
June 15th, 2008 at 9:12 am
25There’s a “Wok and Roll” in Austin. A coffee house called the “Daily Grind”. And you could get a “Oaky Dokey at Smokie Oakies” in Carmichael. Let’s see, also in Austin a “Fu Shin” Fusion restaurant. A wire manufacturer who’s boss is Rusty Wire. I could write a book.
Joe A - Chicago
June 15th, 2008 at 10:42 am
26A bakery in Indiana: “Hoosier Mama”.
Yoiks
June 15th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
27There is a salad place in Grand Junction, CO called “Garden of Eatin’”
bolection
June 15th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
28Pho Shizzle in Cambridge, Ontario and Oberlin, Ohio
Fred
June 15th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
29There is also “Lion in the Sun” of Huntington, New York
Mike
June 16th, 2008 at 4:27 am
30If I ever open a bird store, I will call it “Victorious Egret”
Debbie
June 16th, 2008 at 9:10 am
31There’s a pub in Evansville, IN called the “Duck Inn” — and an upscale women’s clothing store in Lexington, KY called “Isle of You.”
Steve
June 16th, 2008 at 9:29 am
32Chinese restaurant in Winnipeg, on 1st Street . . . Hu’s on First!
John
June 16th, 2008 at 10:11 am
33A restaurant in Skokie Illinois called “East of Edens”, as in fact, it was only two blocks east of the Edens Expressway (in turn, named for a government transportation official Edens)
You
June 16th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
34Greeley, CO there is a bar called “Stagger Inn”
Dino
June 16th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
35Ever seen the Chinese franchise in Houston called “Yummy Chow”?
Mike
June 16th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
36In Bath, England, there’s a Tibetan restaurant called Yak-Yeti-Yak.
foo
June 16th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
37The one that pretty much takes the cake is “Bunghole Liquors” in Salem, MA.
bill in kc
June 17th, 2008 at 6:39 am
38If I opened a fragrance shop in Arizona, I’d call it “Scents of Yuma”.
Bob
June 17th, 2008 at 8:24 am
39In the village of Centerville, Barnstable, MA is a hair salon called “The Barber of ‘C’ ville”
Warren
June 17th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
40An inn in Alaska called Skinny Dick’s Halfway Inn
Francesca
June 18th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
41Portland Oregon apparently requires all Thai restaurants to be pun names.
There’s the Beau Thai, Typhoon, and Thai Noon.
Francesca
June 18th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
42Hayward, CA has a bike shop called Cyclepath.
Harna
June 21st, 2008 at 10:50 am
43In Brighton, UK, there was a shoe shop (might still be there, not quite sure) called ‘R Soles’ and a shop selling leather goods that was called ‘Hard Dix.’
There’s also a juice bar called “Sejuiced’ (seduced) and there used to be a barber shop called ‘Fat Boy Trims’ in honour of local resident and DJ Fat Boy Slim. There’s a Chinese takeaway called ‘Brighton Wok’ in hommage to the Graham Greene novel Brighton Rock. There are quite a few more that have elicited a smile and a slight groan from us over the years, but I can’t think of them at the moment . . . .
Harna
June 21st, 2008 at 10:53 am
44Oh - who could forget - there’s a pet grooming shop in Brighton called ‘Doggy Fashion’. . . . .
Wendy Scott
June 21st, 2008 at 12:46 pm
45Theres a driving school in Liverpool called L Passo
Deborah
June 22nd, 2008 at 10:03 am
46There is a Thai restaurant in Rochester, England called Thai For Two. Until recently there was also a takeaway in Battersea (south London) called The Leaning Tower of Pizza.
Ken
June 24th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
47In Santa Clarita, CA there is an insurance man, Duane Dye, whose office is right next to a mortuary! Everytime I drive past it, I think how convenient!
Lisa
June 24th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
48There used to be a bakery in Camden Town called Crusty Bloomers, there’s a fabric shop in the East End called Touching Cloth and a nick-nack shop in Notting Hill called Les Cuises De Chien (the dog’s bollocks)
Greenwich Lalas
June 25th, 2008 at 4:07 am
49I live just down the road from number 30. It’s pretty good, but just down the road from it was the now sadly departed wooden furniture store…
“Yew Wood Knot Believe It”.
Jason Cluitt
June 25th, 2008 at 9:56 am
50There’s an Insurance place near Winton in Bournemouth called Norman D. Landings, makes me chuckle.
Ooshka
June 27th, 2008 at 3:44 am
51For anyone in the York and Selby may I recommend the plumber Richard Simpson and his company ‘All Cisterns Go’.
Cracking bloke and he does a bloody good job, too.
Elise Driver
June 28th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
52Here in Godalming we have a second-hand dress shop called ‘Change of a-dress’ (and there must be a million ‘Frock Exchange’s
Tim Richards
June 29th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
53In South East London there’s a fireplace shop called GRATE EXPECTATIONS, after the Dickens novel (and David Lean movie). Groan!
Lee Ingham
June 30th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
54There’s a cheese shop in Keswick (Lake District) called ‘Fond Ewe’
Leesh
July 1st, 2008 at 8:08 am
55In Gaithersburg, MD, there is a wine shop called Grape Expectations. DC also has it’s own Thaiphoon and Thaitanic.
Richard Breakspear
July 5th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
56There’s a shop in Shrewsbury, UK called ‘Write here, Kite now”, specialising in both writing equipment (fancy paper and pens), and yes kites.
http://www.writehere-uk.com/images/wp136cdecf.jpg
Geert
July 25th, 2008 at 10:54 am
57Tayloring by: Sew Easy
Taiwanese restuarant in Cape Town: Wo Flung Dung
Adult venue: Come Again
Kal
July 26th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
58wedding chaple - - - Knot Here
ian
July 29th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
59Great fun - pun blog. I will have to look out for an entry from my region. (Dorset, Hampshire and The Isle of Wight.)
Harry
July 30th, 2008 at 9:36 am
60There’s a picture frame store in Syracuse, NY called I’ve Been Framed
GB
July 30th, 2008 at 10:42 am
61There’s a store in Dixon CA that sells cake decorating supplies, classes etc. It’s called “Every Baking Moment.” Love the name!
bifyu
July 30th, 2008 at 11:11 am
62In Honolulu, we have the “Dew Drop Inn”.
While not a pun, we also have a Chinese restaurant named “Fook Yuen”. I’m waiting for them to open a 2nd location they can name “Fook Yuen 2″. (and the horse you rode in on!)
Dave
July 30th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
63Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: The Brick Shirthouse
hank
July 31st, 2008 at 10:26 am
64Then there’s the Chicago area institutions, The Wiener and Still Champion, a laundermat called,” Wash Up, Doc”, the beauty shop, “United Hairlines”, the sandwich shop, “Snaks Firth Avenue” and I’m stull lookng for a restaurant called, “General Meals”.
Stumble
July 31st, 2008 at 12:49 pm
65I stumbled upon this site, thanks for the laugh :D Reminds me of a site I stumbled upon a few days ago called Punshurt. They sell shirts and stuff with puns on them so they used the phrase “puns hurt” and made it in to a pun in and of itself since it sounds like pun shirt. Ahh, I love puns. More like this!
Dodgeblogium » Master . . .
July 31st, 2008 at 6:51 pm
66[...] Truly, the pun is the lowest form of humor. ‘Cause I’m just not getting it. [...]
mr awesome
August 1st, 2008 at 6:13 am
67awesome post :-)
google “sum yum gai” (pronounced ‘guy’) ;-)
stephentrepreneur
August 1st, 2008 at 9:51 am
68Here in the Adelaide CBD is a great little eatery called the “Do Duck Inn”. They’ve decorated (subtly) the interior with, you guessed it, ducks.
Gavin
August 1st, 2008 at 1:15 pm
69The Codfather made the best chips in London
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgen/2722662873/
Roy
August 1st, 2008 at 3:42 pm
70A bike shop in Braunton, England that had it’s address on SOUTH STREET, was Called, ‘SOUTHFORK’ refering to the setting of TV’s Dallas, I guess. It’s not there anymore though. I think it moved onto the main shopping street, but kept the name, which doesn’t work so well any more!
Whirligigmike
August 1st, 2008 at 8:53 pm
71How about a maternity shop- “Motherfrockers”
Whirligigmike
August 1st, 2008 at 8:57 pm
72One more, a mail-order cheese shop in northeastern Pennsylvania.
“Cheeses of Nazareth”
“Got Aquarium?”
August 2nd, 2008 at 7:37 am
73[...] 50 best pun [...]
R10pez10
August 2nd, 2008 at 7:14 pm
74“The Vinyl Countdown”, record store?
(not a real store though)
Also, Wok This Way is awesome!
Im Netz entdeckt
August 6th, 2008 at 2:43 am
75[...] The 50 Best Pun Stores [...]
Dave
August 6th, 2008 at 5:08 am
76Excellent list. I particularly like Cane and Able.
In my home town of Fermoy, Ireland, there used to be a hair salon called The Head Gardener.
On Nassau St in Dublin, there is a shop selling door handles and accessories (?!) called Knobs and Knockers (and if you don’t get that, “knob” is slang for the male member over here and knockers are, of course, boobies).
Zsander
August 6th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
77Not so much a name pun, but when I lived in the LA area a few years ago, I saw a delivery truck with this written on the side:
“CULVER CITY MEAT CO.”
“You Can’t Beat Our Meat!”
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August 8th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
78[...] Pic: The 50 Best Pun Stores: Photo courtesy of Bspcn.com; permission being [...]
P. J.
August 19th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
79Near “Cheeses of Nazareth” is Swiss chesse shop called “Holey Cheeses”.
Will
August 20th, 2008 at 11:35 am
80There’s are two rest. owned by the same people in a small college town in Oklahoma. One is a pizza and chicken rest. called Sam N Ella. and the other is a sandwich type rest. called Ernie Coli’s .
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