Wednesday, 16 April 2008

I'd like to apologise in advance.

How many hairdressers do you know (the businesses, not the people) whose names are not a hilarious hair-related pun? Oh, of course you'll find the odd one trying to be elegant ("The Gentleman's Hair Salon", for example), but the number that will choose something like "Upper Cuts" or "Cut 'n' Run" is just ridiculous. Is there something about hair in particular that means businesses want to make puns about it? Is hair unusually hysterical?

If hairdressers can have punning names, I think it's remarkably unfair that other types of business can't get away with it. Especially when there's so many great puns available.

Lawyers

  • A Bit Of Soft-Suin'
  • Sue Be Doo Be Doo
  • Don't Be Acquitter
  • Litigate Good Times, C'mon
  • Don't Dread the Judge

Music Shops
  • Duet Yourself
  • More Than The Minim-um
  • Let Me Be Breve
  • Stave It Off
  • If It Ain't Baroque

Undertakers
  • Let's Cremate Good Times, C'mon
  • What's Hearse Is Mine
  • Dead Right
  • Grave Consequences
  • Don't Have A Coffin Fit

Marine Biologists
  • Whale Of A Time
  • Spare Us A Squid?
  • Control Your Em-oceans
  • Bit Of A Dive
  • Like A Sturgeon

Pest Control Experts
  • Stirring Up A Hornet's Nest
  • Don't Rat On Us
  • Row Row Row Your Stoat
  • The Clap Trap Rat Trap Shop
  • Exterminate Good Times, C'mon

(OK, I'm done...)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

There's a fishing shop in Headington called "Maggot's End". Classic.