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Turkbear

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Mar 22, 2002
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Hi,
Is there enough interest to start a thread on this topic?

To start, some of my favorites are:

Paddy O'Furniture (Outdoor furniture and accessories)

MesmerEyes ( Optical shop at Bellagio in Vegas )


Medium Well Done ( Graphic Design/Advertising firm)




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An oyster bar in the One Shell Square office building in New Orleans:

Half Shell Square

Not far from where I live, there is an alligator farm called the Insta-Gator Ranch & Hatchery.

-- Francis
Et cognoscetis veritatem, et veritas liberabit vos.
 
My wife tried to start a bakery business this summer with a friend of hers. They named it Two Old Ladies and an Oven.


James P. Cottingham
[sup]I'm number 1,229!
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My sister, Rebecca, had a iced-cinnamon-roll business named, Becca's Buns.

[santa]Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]
“Beware of those that seek to protect you from harm or risk. The cost will be your freedoms and your liberty.”
 
Here's a crude one:
Puke Framing, You Design It, We Throw It Up
I actually worked for the guy a couple of years.
We did good jobs mostly in Beverly Hills. $$$$$$$$$$$$!

"Impatience will reward you with dissatisfaction" RMS Cosmics'97
 
Here in Hull there's a small bakery store opened. The name of which is written in the exact style of a certain popular '80s film and is called:

Top Bun

Love it.


 
Fukuoka House of Pearls

has always made me chuckle...


Best Regards,
Scott

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, and no simpler."[hammer]
 
A mobile caterers was something along the lines of "Debbies Big Baps" whose slogan was

Nothing like a good stuffing with a big pork sausage

Seeemed to be frequented by truckers and hairy bikers.

Good food though.

Robert Wilensky:
We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

 
Hi,
Mayslak's Butcher shop in Minnesota had this on its trucks:
"Nobody beats Mayslak's meat"



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Turkbear: that's a common theme among butchers. Same thing in New Orleans with Wagner's Meat, only they gave out bumper stickers.

-- Francis
Et cognoscetis veritatem, et veritas liberabit vos.
 
Hi,
Thanks for the info..I guess no one would tell a butcher not to do that ( They know how to dismember [wink] )



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Every radiator repair shop is. . .
. . .the best place to take a leak!

-- Francis
Et cognoscetis veritatem, et veritas liberabit vos.
 
A specialty bakery in Scottsdale, AZ is called:

Nothing Bundt Cakes

And they do them very, very well...Yum [licklips]



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I forgot about Big A** Fans. We use their Powerfoil fans in our mills. They look like upside-down helicopter fans. Take a gander at their logo, too.


James P. Cottingham
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Hi,
One more from a Vegas jewelry store:

BeJeweled

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A road side bait store on the way to a conservation area.

The Master Baitor
 
Head Gardener" for a hair dressers where I live!

I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours...
 
Sun of a Beach tanning salon.

Thanks,
Andrew

[smarty] Hard work often pays off over time, but procrastination pays off right now!
 
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