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Do businesses pun where you are?
Icy North Posted Feb 10, 2010
Witney's one of my old stamping grounds 
I don't remember the butcher, but I do remember the hordes of tweedy old people who stand in the middle of the aisles in Waitrose on Saturday morning with their hands on their hips, gazing into space for hours while queues build up behind them.
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Mrs Zen Posted Feb 10, 2010
This was in the 1970s or 1980s, Icy. Before the bypass. The road from Burford came down to the High Street and there was a T junction with the butcher just on the cross-bar. You turned right to go to Oxford. Though I may have that wrong and it *may* have been a cross roads. The butcher closed down but the sign remained. I think the premises became a furnishings shop in the 1990s.
It's all a long time ago.
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Ivan the Terribly Average Posted Feb 11, 2010
I'd try to link this to the posts above somehow, but I can't, so I'll just mention two of my favourite bookshops in Sydney. First, there's Gleebooks - so named because it's in Glebe. The other one's in Newtown - 'Better Read than Dead'.
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Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... Posted Feb 11, 2010
Ivan, I love Gleebooks but am not allowed anywhere near the place - too much of a wealth hazard 
But they have a great online service - my credit card sags at the thought 
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Ivan the Terribly Average Posted Feb 11, 2010
I'll be raiding Gleebooks next Friday. 
Are you especially busy? (Dealing with the foul fiend w*rk, probably...)
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Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... Posted Feb 11, 2010
Sounds good - but these days I don't have time to have a life 
Enjoy for both of us
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fluffykerfuffle Posted Feb 12, 2010
hey... dont know if youre still doing the punning businesses here but...
heres one from maui
Branch Out ...for a tree trimming business
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Todaymueller Posted Feb 13, 2010
There is a scaffolding company round our way that has 'satisfaction garanteed with every erection' on there trucks .
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Orcus Posted Feb 13, 2010
Ach, I missed this thread for a few days so can I give belated congratulations of William the Concreter ! 
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Feb 13, 2010
khan builders
youv'e had the cowboys, now try the indians!!!
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swl Posted Feb 13, 2010
Dick Cleaners - http://www.comedy-zone.net/pictures/images/signs/150503/cleaners.jpg
Megaflicks - http://www.butlerwebs.com/jokes/images/megaflicks.jpg Unfortunate font
Don't ask for the No 2 - http://www.bragster.com/pictures/0294/3398/ag_brag_large_widescreen.jpg
Sofa So Good - http://www.guy-sports.com/fun_pictures/sofa_so_good.jpg
Richard's Hotel? http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu322/RobotNine/Trailer%20Trash%20Dolls/Store%20Signs/StrangeFunnyBizarreNamesStoresOutle.jpg
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Beatrice Posted Feb 18, 2010
There's a sandwich bar in Bangor, coincidentally just round the corner from Beatrice Road , called sevenATEnine.
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swl Posted Feb 18, 2010
Not a pun,but I saw a sign in Edinburgh today for a Mongolian Restaurant claiming to be "The tastiest thing to come out of Oz since Kylie's bum"
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badger party tony party green party Posted Feb 18, 2010
There business in the Brierly Hill area of Dudley selling cheap recreations of period plaster and stone creations it's owner goes by the name of Harris...no prizes for guessing the name.
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Mrs Zen Posted Apr 19, 2010
Drove past a hairdresser last week called
Hair dot comb
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Christopher Posted Apr 19, 2010
What is it about hairdressing and fish and chip shops that encourage so much punnery? Is it a class thing?
Supplementary question - why do puns incur such wrath and incitement to violence compared to other forms of humour?
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- 55: Beatrice (Feb 18, 2010)
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