Showing posts with label shop names. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shop names. Show all posts

Thursday, 23 February 2012

'Womb to grow'


Shops that use puns in their title have an irresistible draw for me, as readers of this blog will know. Dunno why, because some puns can be really terrible.

This one is witty through (‘womb to grow’ – ‘room to grow’ – geddit?).
Womb To Grow is a maternity clothes shop in Lichfield, and it’s nice that it has a smile on its face.

Monday, 7 November 2011

Steak/Stake out

This did make me laugh, I'll admit it. A lot of shops (especially hairdressers) have punning names, and some are funny, some not.

This one from a burger takeaway in Leek I thought was very clever - mostly because it's so apt. It works on nearly every level...

Friday, 3 June 2011

Punning chip shop

Codsall's fish & chip shop is like a lot of chip shops: it can't resist a pun. As it says in its slogan, it "puts the cod in Codsall". Ho ho. At least it creates a smile in Codsall, which, despite being the 'capital' of the South Staffordshire council area, has a pretty dull town centre.

Somewhere in Stoke (is it Bucknall?) there is also The Codfather (!), there is 'Codswallop' in Forsbrook and almost too many others to mention.
Hairdressers also have the same tendency to pun.

(But no other types of shop, which I don't quite understand... Why just these two types?)