This week's Mid-week Wizbang Contest is for the most clever business names. I'm looking for puns, innuendo, and downright ingenious terms. To cite three examples I've seen:
A restaurant outside Baltimore called Cluck-U Chicken; a hair styling salon in Plymouth, NH named Curl Up And Dye; and my favorite used computer store in Salem, NH, MicroSeconds.
Bonus points will be awarded for real businesses, but they do not have to actually exist.
Winners should be announced Thurdsay.
J.
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Yassin's Used Wheelchairs</... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Laurence Simon | April 5, 2005 2:44 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Yassin's Used Wheelchairs
1. Posted by Laurence Simon | April 5, 2005 2:44 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 14:44
2. Posted by SamHell | April 5, 2005 2:48 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I've always wanted to own a fried chicken stand in Corpus Christi, TX and call it:
Corpus Crispy
2. Posted by SamHell | April 5, 2005 2:48 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 14:48
3. Posted by Ken J | April 5, 2005 2:49 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
There's a place in Bellevue, WA called What The Pho. Pho is Vietnamese soup and it's pronounced fuh.
3. Posted by Ken J | April 5, 2005 2:49 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 14:49
4. Posted by ibejo | April 5, 2005 2:49 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Cluck and Fuck - Brothel servicing chicken.
4. Posted by ibejo | April 5, 2005 2:49 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 14:49
5. Posted by Jeremy | April 5, 2005 2:59 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Powergen Italia
They have the wonderfully funny powergenitalia.com domain name.
(Seems they took it down, as to prevent users like me for making fun of them.)
They are an italian battery company.
http://www.snopes.com/business/names/powergen.asp
5. Posted by Jeremy | April 5, 2005 2:59 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 14:59
6. Posted by t. z. | April 5, 2005 3:03 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Ford dealership in Iowa:
Dick Withum Ford.
Real
6. Posted by t. z. | April 5, 2005 3:03 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 15:03
7. Posted by dodgeman | April 5, 2005 3:05 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I've seen various examples of this, such as Konner's Kountry Kitchen, with big red lettered KKK on the billboard.
7. Posted by dodgeman | April 5, 2005 3:05 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 15:05
8. Posted by dodgeman | April 5, 2005 3:07 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Three stores back home - Dick's foodstore, Weiner's 5 and dime, and H.E.B., the B. standing for Butt. Dick, weiner, and butt. Great stuff.
8. Posted by dodgeman | April 5, 2005 3:07 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 15:07
9. Posted by mhking | April 5, 2005 3:15 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
There is a nail salon (Chinese of course) with the unlikely name of "Get Nailed" -- and no, I don't know if there's a massage parlor attached or not.
9. Posted by mhking | April 5, 2005 3:15 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 15:15
10. Posted by D Swift | April 5, 2005 3:15 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"You Can't Beat Wagner's Meat" is advertised all over New Orleans.
10. Posted by D Swift | April 5, 2005 3:15 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 15:15
11. Posted by TOMO | April 5, 2005 3:16 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Vietnamese Dentist Office in San Jose, CA:
Phuc Lu Dentistry
Is that great or what!
11. Posted by TOMO | April 5, 2005 3:16 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 15:16
12. Posted by mhking | April 5, 2005 3:17 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Oh, and by the way, Get Nailed is just down the street from a Chinese restaurant: Wan Fu? (complete with question mark).
12. Posted by mhking | April 5, 2005 3:17 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 15:17
13. Posted by Chrees | April 5, 2005 3:23 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Not real, but one I'd like to see:
Clem's Sushi Restaurant and Bait Shop
13. Posted by Chrees | April 5, 2005 3:23 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 15:23
14. Posted by Jim | April 5, 2005 3:24 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
A cousin of mine moved here from Greece and started a dental lab. He unfortunately used his initials, hence DK Dental Labs.
14. Posted by Jim | April 5, 2005 3:24 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 15:24
15. Posted by sortapundit | April 5, 2005 3:28 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
2 takeaways in York, England:
Kebabeque
AbraKebabra
15. Posted by sortapundit | April 5, 2005 3:28 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 15:28
16. Posted by Yogurt | April 5, 2005 3:29 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
How about Goregle, the new internet search engine...
16. Posted by Yogurt | April 5, 2005 3:29 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 15:29
17. Posted by Drew | April 5, 2005 3:29 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Texas Interstate Truck Stop (just read the first letters). Real business. I've got a picture of their sign here (you'll have to scroll down a bit to see it).
17. Posted by Drew | April 5, 2005 3:29 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 15:29
18. Posted by Sharp as a Marble | April 5, 2005 3:30 PM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
Chicken Restaurant - Mother Cluckers.
18. Posted by Sharp as a Marble | April 5, 2005 3:30 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 15:30
19. Posted by biker babe | April 5, 2005 3:30 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Saw a jpeg image of the following: Big Dick's Halfway Inn. Resort was underneath in very small letters
19. Posted by biker babe | April 5, 2005 3:30 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 15:30
20. Posted by Pietro | April 5, 2005 3:31 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Leaning Tower of Pizza
20. Posted by Pietro | April 5, 2005 3:31 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 15:31
21. Posted by Karl Lembke | April 5, 2005 3:35 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Do they have to be intentional?
There used to be a Thai place in Tujunga called the Poo Ping Palace.
The sign may still be there, but the restaurant has long since closed up and gone away. It seems no one wanted to eat there.
Fancy that...
21. Posted by Karl Lembke | April 5, 2005 3:35 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 15:35
22. Posted by bullwinkle | April 5, 2005 3:37 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
-, if you're a Texan you realize that's the cattle brand for "bar" is there's nothing after it it reads Bar None. Must be 20 of them in Texas. There used to be topless bar there named "-e Naked".
22. Posted by bullwinkle | April 5, 2005 3:37 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 15:37
23. Posted by Louisiana Lad | April 5, 2005 3:37 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
How about the old classic Law Firm:
Trick'em, Dick'em & Dunk'em
headed by Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton and Teddy Kennedy?
23. Posted by Louisiana Lad | April 5, 2005 3:37 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 15:37
24. Posted by debra | April 5, 2005 3:37 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
In Rehobeth, DE
"Worms and Perms", bait, tackle and hair styling.
24. Posted by debra | April 5, 2005 3:37 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 15:37
25. Posted by CrankyBeach | April 5, 2005 3:41 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Back in the 70's I saw a restaurant in Seattle, I think, called Nuclear Fission Chips.
25. Posted by CrankyBeach | April 5, 2005 3:41 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 15:41
26. Posted by Dave A | April 5, 2005 3:42 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
An actual Chinese resteraunt in DC: The Big Wong. (The food is not bad).
T-shirt worn by the Wesleyan ladies crew team back when I was in college (don't know if they still wear anything like it): WESCREW
(I know: not a business - we presume...)
26. Posted by Dave A | April 5, 2005 3:42 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 15:42
27. Posted by Rob@L&R | April 5, 2005 3:52 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Real restaurant in Georgetown, DC:
Moby Dick House of Kabob
27. Posted by Rob@L&R | April 5, 2005 3:52 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 15:52
28. Posted by McGehee | April 5, 2005 3:53 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
South of Fairbanks, Alaska there's a place called "Skinny Dick's Halfway Inn." Not sure if it was established before or after the one Biker Babe submitted.
Skinny's is halfway between Fairbanks and a town called Nenana. I used to dream of starting a newspaper there and calling it The Nenana Republic.
Failing that, I wanted to bankroll a boutique in Montana's capital, if the person running it would name it "Helena Handbasket."
28. Posted by McGehee | April 5, 2005 3:53 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 15:53
29. Posted by OregonMuse | April 5, 2005 3:59 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
On I-5 in northern California, getting on toward to the Oregon border, there's an establishment plainly visible from the highway, either a bait and tackle shop or a bar (maybe both!), called the "Basshole". The word is all spelled out, shaped like a fish and the 'B' at the beginning is real small. Subtle it ain't.
29. Posted by OregonMuse | April 5, 2005 3:59 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 15:59
30. Posted by OregonMuse | April 5, 2005 4:01 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Do movie names count? I've heard that Pamela Anderson and Anna Nicole Smith are going to be in the sequel to 'The Incredibles' and they're going to call it 'The Inflatables.'
30. Posted by OregonMuse | April 5, 2005 4:01 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 16:01
31. Posted by Jess | April 5, 2005 4:02 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
In Hod HaSharon Israel there's a Chinese restaurant called "Come Soon". It's written in English and in Hebrew phonetically. Pretty good little place.
31. Posted by Jess | April 5, 2005 4:02 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 16:02
32. Posted by Captain Ned | April 5, 2005 4:05 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Curl Up & Dye was taken from "The Blues Brothers." It's the name of the salon Carrie Fisher's character owns/works in.
32. Posted by Captain Ned | April 5, 2005 4:05 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 16:05
33. Posted by Neal | April 5, 2005 4:08 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Dick's Joint: "Liquor in front: Poker in the back."
33. Posted by Neal | April 5, 2005 4:08 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 16:08
34. Posted by Bruce | April 5, 2005 4:09 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
There's a store in Dublin, Ireland that sells various accessories for your front door. It's called Knobs and Knockers. I think they sell more t-shirts with their name on 'em than actual door hardware.
I have a picture somewhere - wil scan it when I have a chance.
34. Posted by Bruce | April 5, 2005 4:09 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 16:09
35. Posted by Bruce | April 5, 2005 4:11 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I guess there's one in Austraila too.
35. Posted by Bruce | April 5, 2005 4:11 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 16:11
36. Posted by Aaron | April 5, 2005 4:12 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
There used to be a salon in my hometown called the "Hairport." That has to be the stupidest name I have ever seen.
36. Posted by Aaron | April 5, 2005 4:12 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 16:12
37. Posted by Drew | April 5, 2005 4:15 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
No, Aaron, the dumbest one would be one here called "Al's Ratt & Roll Hair Stylist". Might have been a good idea in 1985, but they didn't even open it until 1995.
37. Posted by Drew | April 5, 2005 4:15 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 16:15
38. Posted by Dwayne "the canoe Guy" | April 5, 2005 4:16 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Used to be a coffee house here in OKC called "Java the Hutt" & there was a restaurant on a lake near Tulsa called the "Hard Dock Cafe"
I always wanted to own a Tow Truck service called "This Little Piggy"
38. Posted by Dwayne "the canoe Guy" | April 5, 2005 4:16 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 16:16
39. Posted by Dwayne "the canoe Guy" | April 5, 2005 4:18 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The Curl Up & Dye was an actual salon in Wilmington Illinois, not far from Joliet & Elwood IL and was open for several years prior to the release of The Blues Bros.
Just wanting to keep the facts straight.
39. Posted by Dwayne "the canoe Guy" | April 5, 2005 4:18 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 16:18
40. Posted by rampage trader | April 5, 2005 4:32 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
During my incareration at the Air Force Academy I had the opportunity to get a bottle of Jack Daniels at BEAVER LIQUORS in Avon, Colorado. You can visit their website at beaverliquors.com.
40. Posted by rampage trader | April 5, 2005 4:32 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 16:32
41. Posted by Kevin | April 5, 2005 4:35 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
In Beaver Creek, CO (outside Vail) there's a liquor store named... Beaver Liquors.
41. Posted by Kevin | April 5, 2005 4:35 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 16:35
42. Posted by Kevin | April 5, 2005 4:36 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Great minds thinking alike...
42. Posted by Kevin | April 5, 2005 4:36 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 16:36
43. Posted by Darby | April 5, 2005 4:41 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Not real, but funny, atleast, I think so being a Taxi Cab Driver:
We Drive You To Drink Taxi Co.
43. Posted by Darby | April 5, 2005 4:41 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 16:41
44. Posted by Donna B. | April 5, 2005 4:46 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
My favorite law firm name - Love & Wills - Lufkin TX (followed closely by Badders Law Firm, same town, Wilder & Wilder, Henderson TX,)
My favorite fabric stores - Prints Charming, Material Girl, - Shreveport LA
44. Posted by Donna B. | April 5, 2005 4:46 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 16:46
45. Posted by MMM | April 5, 2005 4:47 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
If it's nutty names you need, go where the (beer) nuts are. These are names of actual bars within driving distance of where I sit:
Cosmo's Factory (bar or wild hair solon?)
Doc's Dry Dock (an Amish tavern)
Hammer's Landing (do not take THAT seat)
C Who's Inn (Peeping Tom Nights Tuesdays )
Belly Up (.. and boogie down, oh baby)
Why Knot II (w'not sixsh er sheven?)
Walk Her Inn (get her drunk, walk her home)
Three Old Guys Tavern (teeth optional)
Schmidts' Refuge (away from da wife)
My Bar (my beer, my pickled pigs feet,..)
It Ain't Heaven (but the beer is cold)
.. and my fave.....
Fred's Never Inn But Sue Is
45. Posted by MMM | April 5, 2005 4:47 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 16:47
46. Posted by Retread | April 5, 2005 4:51 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
A co-worker visiting retired parents in FL took a picture of the Master Bait and Tackle Shop, near Ft. Meyers.
46. Posted by Retread | April 5, 2005 4:51 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 16:51
47. Posted by forrest | April 5, 2005 4:55 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Southeastern Meats: "You cant beat our meats!" Real.
Nail Asia, real.
47. Posted by forrest | April 5, 2005 4:55 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 16:55
48. Posted by yetanotherjohn | April 5, 2005 4:57 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
S&M Body Shop in Houston Texas (They fix cars).
48. Posted by yetanotherjohn | April 5, 2005 4:57 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 16:57
49. Posted by Orange County | April 5, 2005 5:02 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Joe's Septic Service - "You Dump, We Pump"
or... "We're #1 with your #2"
49. Posted by Orange County | April 5, 2005 5:02 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 17:02
50. Posted by Marty | April 5, 2005 5:04 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Actual business in Des Moines, IA:
Beaver Cleaners
(It is a dry cleaner and laundry.)
50. Posted by Marty | April 5, 2005 5:04 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 17:04
51. Posted by Orange County | April 5, 2005 5:04 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
City Couriers - Nobody Comes Quicker.
51. Posted by Orange County | April 5, 2005 5:04 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 17:04
52. Posted by Chrees | April 5, 2005 5:04 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
It's been a while since I lived in Houston, but is the bar called "Richard Head's Bar" still in business? One of my faves.
A bar in Davis, California called "The Library."
"Suds," a Dallas bar/laundromat.
52. Posted by Chrees | April 5, 2005 5:04 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 17:04
53. Posted by Rob | April 5, 2005 5:08 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Here in the Midwest we have a gas station chain called the Kum & Go.
Always thought it'd be a better name for a brothel.
53. Posted by Rob | April 5, 2005 5:08 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 17:08
54. Posted by debra | April 5, 2005 5:09 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The plants in our office building are provided by a company called Rentokil....
54. Posted by debra | April 5, 2005 5:09 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 17:09
55. Posted by Marty | April 5, 2005 5:20 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Oh yeah- just down the road from Beaver Cleaners (a dry cleaner on Beaver Avenue) near the campus of Drake University is Dick Pharmacy (on Forest Avenue.
(So as the saying goes on campus, if you meet a girl on campus that doesn't use Beaver Cleaners, you might end up at Dick Pharmacy.)
No really- they're real. Des Moines, IA. And yes, there are Kum and Go convenience stores in Des Moines too!
55. Posted by Marty | April 5, 2005 5:20 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 17:20
56. Posted by Fred Z | April 5, 2005 5:28 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
A restaurant in Calgary serving Australian food (whatever that might be) called the All Stray Inn.
A dry cleaner called Klever Klad Cleaners. The dissonant 'C' on the last word attracted the eye. Or maybe the owner was an idiot.
56. Posted by Fred Z | April 5, 2005 5:28 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 17:28
57. Posted by atomita | April 5, 2005 5:40 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
In Columbus, OH, there is a record store called Magnolia Thunderpussy.
57. Posted by atomita | April 5, 2005 5:40 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 17:40
58. Posted by Aubrey | April 5, 2005 5:44 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Day Old Sushi Store
58. Posted by Aubrey | April 5, 2005 5:44 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 17:44
59. Posted by wavemaker | April 5, 2005 6:12 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Sign at a quick stop (gas pumps and variety) in Richmond Vermont:
"Eat Here And Get Gas"
59. Posted by wavemaker | April 5, 2005 6:12 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 18:12
60. Posted by wavemaker | April 5, 2005 6:13 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Pub in Hyannis:
Duck Inn
60. Posted by wavemaker | April 5, 2005 6:13 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 18:13
61. Posted by wavemaker | April 5, 2005 6:17 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Howe, Dewey Cheetham & Goode, LLP
(not real)
61. Posted by wavemaker | April 5, 2005 6:17 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 18:17
62. Posted by Dodo David | April 5, 2005 6:19 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
One time in his Dilbert comic strip, Scott Adams made a joke about a business being named "Uranus Hertz".
62. Posted by Dodo David | April 5, 2005 6:19 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 18:19
63. Posted by Red | April 5, 2005 6:27 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Laser hair removal center in either NY or NJ, cannot remember:
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow.
63. Posted by Red | April 5, 2005 6:27 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 18:27
64. Posted by cap'n bob | April 5, 2005 6:57 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
How about "Sam 'n' Ella's Chicken Hut"? Or "Loogie's Oyster Bar" ?
64. Posted by cap'n bob | April 5, 2005 6:57 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 18:57
65. Posted by tongancat | April 5, 2005 7:15 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
There is a women's clothing boutique in Half Moon Bay, CA named..."Damsel in a Dress"
65. Posted by tongancat | April 5, 2005 7:15 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 19:15
66. Posted by Scott | April 5, 2005 7:16 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
There's a place in La Jolla, CA named the Liquor Box. I took a double take on that one and laughed for the next week.
66. Posted by Scott | April 5, 2005 7:16 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 19:16
67. Posted by Brant | April 5, 2005 7:27 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
There's a Vietnamese restaurant in Huntington Beach, CA called Pho My Man
67. Posted by Brant | April 5, 2005 7:27 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 19:27
68. Posted by JILLIAN | April 5, 2005 7:31 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
A-One Laundro-Mutt
(a dog groomers)
68. Posted by JILLIAN | April 5, 2005 7:31 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 19:31
69. Posted by Amber | April 5, 2005 7:51 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
There used to be a bar near Austin, Texas called:
"My Office"
-"Honey, don't wait up. I'll be working late at my office tonight."
69. Posted by Amber | April 5, 2005 7:51 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 19:51
70. Posted by Stan25 | April 5, 2005 8:10 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
IHOP The batter is in the platter.
70. Posted by Stan25 | April 5, 2005 8:10 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 20:10
71. Posted by songstress7 | April 5, 2005 8:15 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The actual name of this liquor store in Murphysboro, Illinois is "Southern Illinois Liquors"... but in big letters on the side of the building, for some reason they chose to abbreviate it:
SO
ILL
LIQUORS
(Yeah, I really want to buy something that advertises the effects like that.)
71. Posted by songstress7 | April 5, 2005 8:15 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 20:15
72. Posted by OregonMuse | April 5, 2005 8:49 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Another one: visiting Carmel, CA, back in 1980, I found a restaurant called "A Little Pizza Heaven". Good pizza, too.
72. Posted by OregonMuse | April 5, 2005 8:49 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 20:49
73. Posted by Tuning Spork | April 5, 2005 9:04 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Two real ones:
El Paso Gas.
Sofa King. (With the slogan "Our prices are Sofa King low!)
Even better, imo, than Curl Up And Dye is a fake one from a Simpsons episode: Turn Your Head And Coiff. mheh.
73. Posted by Tuning Spork | April 5, 2005 9:04 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 21:04
74. Posted by CGHill | April 5, 2005 9:09 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Oklahoma City boasts a flower shop called "Floral and Hardy".
74. Posted by CGHill | April 5, 2005 9:09 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 21:09
75. Posted by ginabina | April 5, 2005 9:25 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
In my hometown we had dentists named:
Dr. Belcher
Dr. Licking and
Dr. Chulick (pronounced chew lick)
75. Posted by ginabina | April 5, 2005 9:25 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 21:25
76. Posted by TheEnigma | April 5, 2005 9:27 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Small town grocery in the mid-50s
Dew Drop In
76. Posted by TheEnigma | April 5, 2005 9:27 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 21:27
77. Posted by Milo | April 5, 2005 9:33 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Lawrence, Kansas had a laundr-o-mat called "777" where you could "Wash the Hell out of your clothes!"
77. Posted by Milo | April 5, 2005 9:33 PM |
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Posted on April 5, 2005 21:33
78. Posted by Bryan | April 5, 2005 10:46 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Real place, Columbia, SC in the restaurant district called Five Points... It's a bar (or was... I haven't visited in 6 years) called Group Therapy. Instead of a open/closed sign, it had a sign with 'In Session' and 'Cured'.
Second entry... Strip club located in North Canton, Ohio. Name? 'The Office.'
78. Posted by Bryan | April 5, 2005 10:46 PM |
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79. Posted by Darth Servo | April 5, 2005 10:51 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I don't know if this is true or not, but in Los Angeles (of course) there is supposedly a kosher Mongolian restaurant.
Name? Genghis Cohen.
79. Posted by Darth Servo | April 5, 2005 10:51 PM |
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80. Posted by Bryan | April 5, 2005 10:54 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Sort of related as well now that I was thinking of businesses in Columbia SC... There was a shop that serviced hydraulic equipment in town called General Jack & Grease Gun Service. A local band was looking for a decent name and began to appear as General Jack & the Grease Guns.
80. Posted by Bryan | April 5, 2005 10:54 PM |
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81. Posted by capitano | April 5, 2005 10:55 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
A Maine company that sells predator (coyote, fox, bobcat, wolf) urine for use as a repellant for varmints and pests (rats, raccoons, bunnies, deer) is called...
Leg Up Enterprises.
81. Posted by capitano | April 5, 2005 10:55 PM |
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82. Posted by Oscar Jr. | April 5, 2005 11:05 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Edifice Wrecks, Inc., Johnstown, PA (also was the name of a destruction company in Florida)?
Midass Muffler, St. Maarten?
82. Posted by Oscar Jr. | April 5, 2005 11:05 PM |
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83. Posted by Boyd | April 5, 2005 11:23 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The Salt Lick Barbecue Restaurant in Driftwood, TX. I have one of their T-shirts: "You can smell our pits for miles."
83. Posted by Boyd | April 5, 2005 11:23 PM |
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84. Posted by Geoff Matthews | April 5, 2005 11:29 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Totally Awesome Computers - actual business
Bad Ass Coffee Company - A donkey for a mascot (something about a donkey carrying the coffee beans in Hawai)
Brew'd Awakening - yet another coffee shop
Bag Lady Botique - Used clothes store
84. Posted by Geoff Matthews | April 5, 2005 11:29 PM |
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85. Posted by Geoff Matthews | April 5, 2005 11:33 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Should have added this, but the guy who owns Totally Awesome Computers has 2 other businesses called Totally Awesome Guns and Range and Totally Awesome Flying Sports.
85. Posted by Geoff Matthews | April 5, 2005 11:33 PM |
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86. Posted by capitano | April 6, 2005 12:18 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
There used to be a sandwich shop in a high tech office park in Austin, TX called the
CTRL ALT DELI
86. Posted by capitano | April 6, 2005 12:18 AM |
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87. Posted by Erik | April 6, 2005 2:01 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I've always wanted to open a lunch place called:
Chez What
I'd serve the kind of street (i.e. fast) food you get in Europe - sausage, doner kebab, Belgian Fries (French Fries done right), crepes etc. I'd probably skip Dutch raw or pickled Herring, though.
87. Posted by Erik | April 6, 2005 2:01 AM |
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88. Posted by McCain | April 6, 2005 2:37 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The Paris Hilton Think Tank
(a no-profit organization)
88. Posted by McCain | April 6, 2005 2:37 AM |
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89. Posted by Cybrludite | April 6, 2005 5:00 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
One I recall from the background of a Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoon a long time ago was "Oedipus Wrecks" on a truck with a wrecking ball attached.
89. Posted by Cybrludite | April 6, 2005 5:00 AM |
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90. Posted by johnny | April 6, 2005 9:40 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
law firm: Hissey & Fitz LLP
chinese places: Wok This Way, Wok Around the Clock
90. Posted by johnny | April 6, 2005 9:40 AM |
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91. Posted by D-Hoggs | April 6, 2005 10:37 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Ocean City, Maryland - Mother Clucker's
Oxford, Mississippi - Steak and Titties
91. Posted by D-Hoggs | April 6, 2005 10:37 AM |
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92. Posted by Scott | April 6, 2005 10:38 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The Suck and Tuck...liposuction and plastic surgery
The Oedipus Retreat...a camp for troubled teens...and mothers
Quivering Bar and Grill...a "real" (well as real as anything gets at burning man) grill who's motto was "Reclaiming virginity through the ritual sacrifice of beer and cattle!"
92. Posted by Scott | April 6, 2005 10:38 AM |
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93. Posted by Karl Lembke | April 6, 2005 10:41 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
As long as law firms are fair game, there's always the notorious firm of:
Bain, Dover, and Lovitt.
93. Posted by Karl Lembke | April 6, 2005 10:41 AM |
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94. Posted by eric | April 6, 2005 10:42 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Real one in Alaske at a dog grooming shop - "Doggie Style"
94. Posted by eric | April 6, 2005 10:42 AM |
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95. Posted by Harvey | April 6, 2005 10:54 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Actual hair salon in Jefferson, Wisconsin:
Best Little Hair House
95. Posted by Harvey | April 6, 2005 10:54 AM |
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96. Posted by Cap'n Bob | April 6, 2005 11:35 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Hawthorne, CA - Kevorkian Pediatrics.
Would you bring your little ones here?
96. Posted by Cap'n Bob | April 6, 2005 11:35 AM |
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97. Posted by Doug | April 6, 2005 1:23 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
There are two seperate businesses in Redding Ca.,both hot dog stands.---one called "Fast Weenie" the other " Between the Buns"
97. Posted by Doug | April 6, 2005 1:23 PM |
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98. Posted by Barnabas | April 6, 2005 1:28 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
There is a Pho place near my old school called "Pho King". Pho is pronounced "Fuh".
98. Posted by Barnabas | April 6, 2005 1:28 PM |
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99. Posted by Stan25 | April 6, 2005 2:23 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The Mafia Concrete Company We make our overshoes to order
99. Posted by Stan25 | April 6, 2005 2:23 PM |
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100. Posted by Darkmage | April 6, 2005 3:38 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I've got a couple real ones for you.
In Norfolk, VA there used to be a fast-food-ish Chinese restaurant called "The Wok Inn".
There's a pawn shop in Manassas, VA called "Ghengis Pawn"
Somewhere around Northern VA there is an HVAC company called "Stiff Nipples Air Conditioning"
100. Posted by Darkmage | April 6, 2005 3:38 PM |
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101. Posted by BlogDog | April 6, 2005 3:42 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
From the Simpsons and memoriaized by James Lileks: "Sneed's Seed & Feed (Formerly Chuck's)"
And I do believe I saw a sign by the road near Hilton Head Island that invited dinning at the "Squat 'n' Gobble."
Finally, some years ago a local (DC) radio show called a business in (to the best of my recollection) Massachusetts called "Bunghole Liquors."
Maybe that's where Cornholio works now.
101. Posted by BlogDog | April 6, 2005 3:42 PM |
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102. Posted by Kevin P. Craver | April 6, 2005 4:01 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
My contribution:
Halliburgers -- A Cheney-owned fast-food chain in Iraq.
102. Posted by Kevin P. Craver | April 6, 2005 4:01 PM |
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103. Posted by wheels | April 6, 2005 6:54 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
In Denver, there used to be a record store named Gopher Baroque.
There is a bar (known as a hangout for symphony musicians) named My Brother's Bar.
And there is a local disposal company (EDS Waste Solutions) which uses the slogan "Five generations going to waste."
103. Posted by wheels | April 6, 2005 6:54 PM |
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104. Posted by George | April 6, 2005 9:50 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Diesel Fried Chicken
Somehow I think it's closed now...
http://www.sfpoetry.org/images.html
pix at bottom of page
104. Posted by George | April 6, 2005 9:50 PM |
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105. Posted by Ed | April 7, 2005 1:13 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
While driving around Ipswich, England last summer we noticed a local accounting firm called Manning & Girling (manningandgirling.co.uk). Seems to me the partners ought to offer temporary staffing services as well.
Ocean City, MD has Big Pecker's Bar and Grill (big-peckers.com) and its sister place is called the Brass Balls Saloon & Bad Ass Cafe (brassballssaloon.com)
105. Posted by Ed | April 7, 2005 1:13 AM |
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106. Posted by EricR | April 7, 2005 7:45 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
A salon in Bellevue, WA offering manicures and tanning beds is called:
Tan me, Nail me
Ha! Try not to picture that in your mind!
106. Posted by EricR | April 7, 2005 7:45 AM |
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107. Posted by thfirstbrokenangel | April 7, 2005 10:11 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
New Business:
THE GEEK SQUAD.
ugh
Cindy
107. Posted by thfirstbrokenangel | April 7, 2005 10:11 AM |
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108. Posted by T.Lung | April 7, 2005 11:42 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
A ship recently launched and delivered to Hong Kong owners [therefore maybe a business in that shipowning companies are often single vessel entities] : m.v. Titan Uranus.
Real.
108. Posted by T.Lung | April 7, 2005 11:42 AM |
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109. Posted by T.Lung | April 7, 2005 11:46 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Another Mr. Dick in business, this time in Sydney or Melbourne Australia - with vehicles proudly bearing the slogan : Dick Polishing Services.
Real.
109. Posted by T.Lung | April 7, 2005 11:46 AM |
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110. Posted by Loon | April 7, 2005 11:49 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
How about The Edward Kennedy Institute of Advanced Motoring ?
110. Posted by Loon | April 7, 2005 11:49 AM |
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111. Posted by Dwayne "the canoe Guy" | April 8, 2005 12:59 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
BMC in Houston has an internal company eateries. Since this is a comptuer software company, the place is called
Juan's & Z Rose
I thought a better name would have been
Url's
111. Posted by Dwayne "the canoe Guy" | April 8, 2005 12:59 PM |
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112. Posted by Kathleen | April 9, 2005 8:46 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
A buddy of mine grew up in Nazareth, PA. He's always said that someday he's going to move back there and open a deli named "Cheeses of Nazareth."
112. Posted by Kathleen | April 9, 2005 8:46 PM |
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113. Posted by Buckley F. Williams | April 14, 2005 11:34 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
There is a gay realtor in the Phoenix area whose name escapes me, but whose slogan is:
"John Smith: Puttin the 'homo' in homeowner."
(Obviously not his real name.)
113. Posted by Buckley F. Williams | April 14, 2005 11:34 AM |
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114. Posted by Ana | April 15, 2005 10:51 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Friend of mine is opening a computer shop for buidling and repairing computers. He didn't like my suggestion for a company name ... FAQ U Computers
Oh well
114. Posted by Ana | April 15, 2005 10:51 PM |
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115. Posted by Christopher | May 31, 2005 9:41 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I have three contributions:
A tavern in Dubuque, IA called "Whitey's Bar X"
A strip joint in East Dubuque, IL called "The Land of Mint and Honey" owned by a lady whose first name is Mint.
And a Vietnamese noodle joint in Madison, WI called simply, "I'm Here"
115. Posted by Christopher | May 31, 2005 9:41 AM |
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