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Naming your company, shop, or brand experience is one of a kind. Just like a name for your child, it has to present it in the best possible light, attracting clients and claiming its presence in the vast sea of competitors. Unless you’re a British business, of course.
In that case, the punnier the better. We all know that British humor feels like a whole new language that never ceases to deliver a constant deadpan, and their punny shop names are the embodiment of it.
So Bored Panda has compiled a precious collection full of puntastic British shop and service names as seen on billboards, cars, and signs that will make you read twice, and thrice. Then cringe, and share with your friend.
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Raine Soo 5 years ago
This is probably my favourite. I'd work for them just to answer the phone with "Surelock Homes. It is our business to know what other people do not know."
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
Great name, but the figure of the key should have had a Deerstalker hat and a pipe.
Mac MacLeod 5 years ago
We use these when our tenants lock themselves out or when we change tenants. Brilliant company
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RavenClaw 5 years ago (edited)
i looked at the licsene plate ..thinking their was gonna a pun.. am i the only one
I'manoob! 5 years ago
All I got from the license plate was "Real Messy" = "RE6l MSY" idk, could just be me as well :D
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Beverley Harper 5 years ago
Great chippy, not far from where i live. i used to go to high school with the lady who owns it.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 5 years ago
Naw. British kids are tough. They grow up with genocidal pepperpots and their "Tin Men" habitually cut people apart with machines to put their brains in metal-bodies to "make them better" and "defeat suffering from emotions". Forget "Over the Rainbow"... they laugh about such childish things 🤭
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Bored Panda reached out to Wayne Barber, who has been running the punny business social media channels on and off for years now. Wayne has been collecting the punniest business names for his Twitter account Punny Business.
“Initially, it was great fun to try and find as many punny businesses as I could and once I’d built up my followers, they started finding them for me.”
However, Wayne said that over the course of a few years, he started seeing the same names used repeatedly all over the world and this “can get a little boring.” Yet, he still gets a thrill when he spots or is sent a new pun that he has never seen before, especially if it’s a hilarious one.
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Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago (edited)
There’s a restaurant in Ocean City, MD with the same name. Opened in the mid-nineties. Great Mexican food.
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Celina Thommesen-Kähler 5 years ago
As long as nobody orders a side of Iceberg..lettuce XD
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Brianna Jones 5 years ago
they made a spelling mistake- they typed unbelievable, not unbeLEAFable
todd andrews 5 years ago
This company is run by southern firemen. The Tree wise men came from afar
When it comes to exceptionally punny business names, Wayne gave some honorable mentions: “Much Ado About Muffin (a cake shop in Stockton upon Tees, UK), The Merchant of Tennis (sports shop in Toronto, Canada), Tan’in’Ere (Stayley Bridge, UK), and Ghost Bus Tours (Ghoulish Based Bud Tours across several UK cities).”
But his hands-down favorite one is a play on words with a famous '90s song by a band called Cornershop. “It’s a small food van that serves hot breakfast sandwiches of sausage, bacon and egg, etc. that is located in a lay-by on the main road near my home town of Kingston upon Hull called Brimful of Rasher (a pun on the '90s song Brimful and Asher by Cornershop). It never fails to put a smile on my face.”
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s. vitkovitsky 5 years ago
That's awesome. I saw one called Crewel World.
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Beans 5 years ago
Nice job, they are both ageist and sexist in their comment =\ And kinda belittling too.
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Ethan Mason 4 years ago
Is this some kind of millennial joke that I am too Gen Z to understand?
MAKtheknife 5 years ago
Actually, I had the tongue symbol painted on my first mask. Rolling-St...b8007e.jpg 
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
This is really brilliant: describes exactly what the business is AND bites a famous band name.
Kimberley Stone 5 years ago
Anytime my family were on a road trip, we were... well, you guessed it
Wayne also believes that puns and humor can give passersby a good laugh the whole world over, and it’s not just in Britain. “I truly believe that it can help make a business instantly more memorable and it is more likely to tempt people in, especially if it’s a funny one."
Especially if it conjures an absurd image “such as Brian Pickles Lawn Movers or the RSPCA Animal Rescue Charity shop in Bury, UK having the slogan Helping Bury Animals.” Wayne concluded that “it all leads to these businesses being talked about and gets some form of free advertising.”
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Sinister Murder 5 years ago
So in this bar they're talking for years about breakfast and when it's finally coming, it's a disappointment?
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Gavin Johnson 5 years ago
My old vape supplier in Macclesfield. He is actually called Vlad, lovely bloke 😀
Ethan Mason 4 years ago
I mean, Vlad was a killer and so are cigerettes so technically not wrong there.
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Jane Alexander 5 years ago
A wonderful bearded fellow who runs a pottery shop had a sign that read "Come in and meet the Hairy Potter
Michael Dworkin-Robertson 5 years ago
i've been single too long...i'll take a hairy pop in....
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todd andrews 5 years ago
Did you know if you say “bacon” with a Jamaican accent it sounds the same as sayin “beer can” with a British accent?
Bella Jones 5 years ago (edited)
todd andrews: 'Did you know if you say “bacon” with a Jamaican accent it sounds the same as sayin “beer can” with a British accent?' Errrm, no. No, it doesn't. Not in the slightest. Source: Am Brit.
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Catherine Graffham 5 years ago
Near me there was a set of Jamaican stores called 'summit' selling records -'summit to hear', clothes - 'summit to wear', and food - 'summit to eat'
Ben Dreyer 5 years ago
Lovely restaurant in my hometown, Cape Town, South Africa. 1-5fc24ffc...7a-png.jpg 
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Radek Suski 5 years ago
Wait, what? People in UK actually eat seafood? Like usual or in pudding?
Ethan Mason 4 years ago
I thinK I've heard the shrimply the best joke before. Still got to me.
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Ristina Nielsen 5 years ago
Matching the "undertaker" branch of the business...
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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
Melancholy would be a cool name for a bookstore. I would stay in that store all day!
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Saara . 5 years ago
Gents Hairdressing Lounge sounds like they use something other than clippers and scissors.
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Maria 5 years ago
Fuchsia is a flower (pictured on the van), and Back to the Future is a film.
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Linda Williams 5 years ago
In my country we pronounce this plant as f*cksia. Always good for a laugh.
Perfumista Perfumista 5 years ago
Named for Leonhart Fuchs, the "ch" actually should be pronounced as a "k" but the "u" would be pronounced like "oo" so it would not sound like swearing.
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Mae Mosse 5 years ago
Got one in my local town too. Chicken burger is yummy and chips too.
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Bone_of_midfield 5 years ago (edited)
This is literally in my town!! The fish and chips there is awesome, and I looooooove the chicken nuggets
Thalia Lovering 5 years ago
This picture is so wonderfully British. The bricks, the rain on the window, the chip shop...
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Jane Alexander 5 years ago
A liquor store in CA near the Az Border could be named 'Blythe Spirits'?
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Thomas brennan 5 years ago
I've been in Barber Streisand, the walls have pictures of houses seen from the air which is a nod to the Streisand Effect. FYI that street is Exmouth Market in Islington, London and is lovely
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Raine Soo 5 years ago (edited)
This is a name that elicits loads of giggles, even though it has a good meaning in Vietnamese.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
'Habby Buddha', according to the noodle bar. Google translate gives 'phật hạnh phúc'. Are there any Vietnamese speakers here?
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Facebook repeatedly blocked a Vietnamese-Australian man called Phuc Dat Bich. Here's how it is pronounced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cBcU4kF8dE
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
I've also heard of "PHO Q" slipping by licensing authorities who don't know how to pronounce "pho."
Ethan Mason 4 years ago
Yes. This is my favorite resturaunt now. It said my name. Now where do I go to come here?
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glowworm2 5 years ago (edited)
My boyfriend and I once saw a frozen yogurt kiosk called "Rehab." He of course remarked that this must have been where they tried to make Amy Winehouse go to. I said "No, no, no!"
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Autumn 5 years ago
Oh my goodness I love your name. For anyone who doesn't already know pls look this up it's really a sad story. 52 Blue
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todd andrews 5 years ago
I hired you people to build me a deck, why is there poop on it? It’s a wonder to me that you can build anything straight with that eye patch.
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Arran Walker 5 years ago
In Austin, TX, we have a biscuits (US idea of biscuits) and gravy food truck called “Biscuits and Groovy”... with hippy tie-dye designs all over it, peace signs, etc.
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Mosritheel 5 years ago
I walk past this van every day, it’s right next to my house. I made an account just to make this comment lol
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Raine Soo 5 years ago
It's a reference to Jason Donovan, the Australian actor who was very popular in the 80's and 90's.
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Meyer Weinstock 5 years ago
Um, mate, kin'Ai git a doner kebab wit' sum curry sawss? Grate...tanx, mate....
Jim Roland 5 years ago
Too many broken hearts, cheeks, eyeballs... Nah I'm sure this is unfair.
Sam Kingston 5 years ago
I’ve gotten food from here on the way home from many nights out. A Bristol icon.
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Capn_Ahab 5 years ago
Ayr is a place in Scotland presumably where the shop is.
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todd andrews 5 years ago
“Ok all done. Take a Wookiee and tell me what you think.” Ok, sorry that joke was forced.
Cecilia 5 years ago
@Todd, got a better joke for you: Q: what do you call Chewbacca when he gets chocolate stuck on his fur? A: a chocolate chip wookie
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Smitten Kitten 5 years ago
I think it's an old Victorian era train station. They were all very beautiful.
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YosemiteCat 5 years ago
Saying dinner dinner dinner dinner BATMAN is how my family calls call my siblings and I for dinner 😂
Arran Walker 5 years ago
My family always used to announce “Supper, supper, supper tiii-iii-iime” in a vaudeville type of way.
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Amaranthim Talon 5 years ago
I'm not sure "bap"man is what they were going for though- and uhm.. what's that in his hand????
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Arran Walker 5 years ago
I still think the tag line should be “It totally fits ‘round the hearth”.
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Mary Peace 5 years ago
Do you think so? You should come and visit, we have lots like this!
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T Simmons 5 years ago
Sky is a telecom and satellite tv company and their sports channel is called sky sports
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IlovemydogShilo 5 years ago
Fish and chips shops are great ones for punny names. Like the Cod Father, Frier Tuck, and the Frying Squad. Hairdressers have some good ones too like A Cut Above, Power Cuts and Curl Up and Dye.
Pixie 5 years ago
As a non-native speaker I sadly don't get all of them. But most are groany-hillarious.
Mary Peace 5 years ago
At least on a site like this you can ask and someone will explain for you. I saw quite a few of them a while back, on a website, where I couldn't do that.
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person (i think) 5 years ago
I generally strongly dislike puns, but for some reason I really love business name puns! :D
fuggnuggins 5 years ago
A deli in Newcastle, Australia called Pork Ewe Deli. I delivered there, walk in and ask straight up "How do you get away with a name like that?" Cheeky older woman replies "I have no idea what you're talking about."
Jacqueline Arana 5 years ago
I've seen a place called Lord of the Rims and another called The Crepes of Wrath
IlovemydogShilo 5 years ago
Fish and chips shops are great ones for punny names. Like the Cod Father, Frier Tuck, and the Frying Squad. Hairdressers have some good ones too like A Cut Above, Power Cuts and Curl Up and Dye.
Pixie 5 years ago
As a non-native speaker I sadly don't get all of them. But most are groany-hillarious.
Mary Peace 5 years ago
At least on a site like this you can ask and someone will explain for you. I saw quite a few of them a while back, on a website, where I couldn't do that.
Load More Replies... person (i think) 5 years ago
I generally strongly dislike puns, but for some reason I really love business name puns! :D
fuggnuggins 5 years ago
A deli in Newcastle, Australia called Pork Ewe Deli. I delivered there, walk in and ask straight up "How do you get away with a name like that?" Cheeky older woman replies "I have no idea what you're talking about."
Jacqueline Arana 5 years ago
I've seen a place called Lord of the Rims and another called The Crepes of Wrath
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