BS: unlikely ads

Subject: BS: unlikely ads
From: Mo the caller
Date: 07 Feb 06 - 09:27 AM

"white hare of Howden" advertising Hare Krishna or Vetinary supplies.

Only ads actually seen please or it would get silly

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: Charmion
Date: 07 Feb 06 - 09:50 AM

Isn't it already silly? Deliberately and on purpose?

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: frogprince
Date: 07 Feb 06 - 11:14 AM

In the world of advertising, stupid may not equal unlikely; but a recent Subaru slogan sticks in my head:
   "Driven by what's inside"
Does that mean as opposed to other cars, which are driven by someone hanging on the outside and reaching in through the window?

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: Mo the caller
Date: 07 Feb 06 - 11:34 AM

You spotted it Charmion.

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: Mo the caller
Date: 07 Feb 06 - 11:36 AM

And as I clicked "Submit" I noticed a Krishna Ad, but its gone again now

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: Mo the caller
Date: 07 Feb 06 - 11:39 AM

This
folkmap new competition
was the thread that started me off

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Feb 06 - 10:13 PM

I really saw these.


Name of a sandwich/burger shop

"The Taik Hawaii"


Name of a Scuba Supplies Shop

"Come Diving"



I'm not making these up you know...

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: JennyO
Date: 07 Feb 06 - 10:33 PM

Then there's the hairdresser's shop in Castle Cove - "Curl up and Dye"!

I always thought that if I ever had a dog grooming salon, something which is not at all likely really, I'd call it "Hair of the Dog". I like it so much, it's almost tempting to try it, just to use the idea!

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: Leadfingers
Date: 08 Feb 06 - 06:20 AM

Greys Inn Road used to boast a snackbar called 'Sam Wedges'

And Hanwell used to have a second hand shop called 'Junk and Disorderly'

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: JennyO
Date: 08 Feb 06 - 06:25 AM

There's a bicycle shop in Gladesville called Cycology.

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: Mo the caller
Date: 08 Feb 06 - 06:33 AM

There, you see, you've triggered adverts for Pet grooming at the bottom of the page.
Hairdressers seem to be wellplaced for puns. Our local salon is over a newsagents and called "A Cut Above"
This thread has escaped my origional intention, unlikely placing of adverts in relation to internet discussion, but who cares - you don't.

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: JennyO
Date: 08 Feb 06 - 07:04 AM

Actually I did notice we were drifting, but I thought you were looking for ads seen on TV or in the papers, and I was racking my brains trying to think of an example to get it back on track.

Now that I know what you were thinking of, I'll pay more attention to the ads at the bottom of the threads. I see that both ads here are now for people, not pets.

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: Mr Happy
Date: 08 Feb 06 - 08:32 PM

.....seen on van on M62:


'Put your trust inCompetant Builders!'

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: vectis
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 08:07 AM

"The car in front is a Toyota" round here it's perfectly true. Normally driven by an oldie that is looking through the steering wheel and doing 30mph in a 60 limit and there's nowhere to overtake safely. The tailbacks can get almost a mile long when the area is full of tourists.

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: Mr Red
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 08:11 AM

On the back of a Gloucs truck company "C Butt" (and it needed wiping)
and my favourite is Knights in the village of Old - you can see there trucks occasionally "Knights of Old"

greasy spoons - one called Greasy Joes in Cirencester (open all night just near the big Tescos) and one in Tipton/Dudley "Sam and Ella's"

I have seen a hairdressers called "Shortened Curlies" in London.
and the usual "Hair Port"

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: Micca
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 08:45 AM

and an Indian food shop in West London some years ago called "The New Delhi-catessen" and in the local Bulders mercahnts was a piece of kit for diverting water from yhe roof down pipe into a Rain barrel so it could be used for watering the Garden etc and I said and I quote " directs the rain water from your roof straight into your Butt"

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 09:43 AM

In Plymouth there is a firm of builders with an Indian name (I forget it now), whose advertising slogan is

"You've tried the cowboys, now try the Indians".

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: jonm
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 10:22 AM

On the back of another truck - R.Send

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: Susu's Hubby
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 05:10 PM

a store in Montana....Helena Handbasket


Hubby

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: autolycus
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 07:01 PM

Might be a slight drift, but I just loved it the first time I saw a white lorry(truck)covered in dirt, onto which somebody inscribed with finger, "Also available in white."

Something sort of perfect about that.

Auyo.

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 07:06 PM

Quite seriously, there was a butcher shop on Rt. 256 in Pickerington owned by a high school friend named Tom Young and he had boldly lettered in his front window:

YOU CAN'T BEAT MY MEAT

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: Mr Red
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 10:58 AM

Indian (was a Chinese) restaurant in Shirley - Think posh Birmingham, notso posh Solihull. called -

Shirley Temple

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: Kaleea
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 02:46 PM

When I was a teen in Tulsa, there was a gas station which also sold a few grocery items. The hand painted name on the sign said, "In & Out, Gro. & Sta."

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: Scoville
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 11:59 AM

We had a "Curl Up & Dye" hair place here in Houston, too!!

The convenience store in my college town was "Kum & Go", but the students all called it the "F*ck & Run".

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: Micca
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 01:57 PM

You want Unlikely? try this In Mohair for those "nights out"??????

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 05:48 AM

Just driven past "Hairs and Graces"

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 06:46 AM

What I want to know is, if these psychic chappies are so good they reckon they can improve my life and sort my problems, why do they bother putting adverts through my door, when they should already know I'm never going to visit them and the ad goes straight in the bin?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: GUEST,Dr Price
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 07:32 PM

There's a lawyers' firm in Talbot Green, South Wales, called - wait for it - Costley and Partners...

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: GUEST,Shanghaiceltic
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 05:16 PM

Two pet shops in Shanghai

'Pet Buffet'
'Naughty Family Pets'

Two housing estates near to me;

'Wanke Mansions' -------- what an address to have
'Gaudiness City'

Sign above exit escalator at local Carrefour

'Thanks for your coming'

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: Michael
Date: 15 Feb 06 - 01:15 PM

There used to be a Funeral Directors (Parlour) in Hull called
'R Boddy'.

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Feb 06 - 02:43 PM

"Used condoms for sale. Cheap."

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: gnomad
Date: 15 Feb 06 - 02:44 PM

Another funeral directors (Dewsbury, UK) - Box and Company.

Not far away (Birstall) but I don't think it is still there, a sandwich shop - Linford's Lunchbox.

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Feb 06 - 04:54 PM

According to a local barber shop, Mr Comber is cutting.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: GUEST,Mo
Date: 16 Feb 06 - 06:23 PM

Jenny, someone else shares your punsense. I was looking for Halfords in the phone book and saw "Hair Off the Dog"

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: GUEST,Ingrid Frances Stark
Date: 17 Feb 06 - 02:50 AM

There's a tv ad I've seen recently for windshield wipers that features little plush dogs and cats falling from the sky. Mostly seen on the Weather Channel.

And how about the hair removal place called "Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow"?

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 Feb 06 - 03:13 AM

There's a car for sale in a road not too far away, which features 'Automatic leather interior'...... wonder what it does?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 17 Feb 06 - 05:13 AM

Spaw came close, but the butcher shop in South Haven, Kansas - just across the border from Oklahoma, has a permanent 8 foot long sign above the door that says:

         Nobody Beats Our Meat.

Considering the tiny size of the town, and "ruralish" location, it's possible nobody in town has figured out the joke.

John

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: Den
Date: 17 Feb 06 - 10:29 AM

Not a sign but and ad: For sale, Large dog, house trained will eat anything loves children.

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: Mo the caller
Date: 05 Mar 06 - 06:43 PM

Now there's an ad for a horse race betting system on the "White Horse folk club " thread.
It's very clever, how do they do it?

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 05 Mar 06 - 09:17 PM

In Brookline, Massachusetts, there is an antique store called "Room with a Vieux". The same town is also the home of Deathwish Piano Movers -- elegantly gold-lettered on their vans.

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Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: Pauline L
Date: 06 Mar 06 - 04:22 AM

This is real: The Terminal Snack Bar and Carryout. You get a snack there, then terminate, and then they carry you out?

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: jonm
Date: 06 Mar 06 - 07:32 AM

There's a firm of solicitors in Warwick called "Wright Hassall & Co"

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: Moses
Date: 06 Mar 06 - 07:38 AM

The Guardian newspaper recently ran a section on unusual business names. Examples :-

Aberdeenshire snack bar - "Jack-o-bites"

General Store in the (South of England, I think) small town of Knocken - "The Knocken shop"

Hairdressers - "Have it off"

Mobile fish and chip shop - "Star chip Enterprise"



The best ad I ever saw was in the small ads of a local newspaper some years ago in the "Pets" section

"For sale, mongrel dog, almost human, otherwise sound"

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 06 Mar 06 - 07:44 AM

My home Town has a Barber's called "Van Gogh's".

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: JennyO
Date: 06 Mar 06 - 08:03 AM

Then there is the the firm of solicitors in Sligo in Ireland - Argue & Phibbs.

Our choir was there in 2001 and I have a picture somewhere of one of my friends standing next to the sign.

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Mar 06 - 04:16 PM

Thanks for that one, JennyO. I recall seeing that brass plate back in 1967, my parents were rolling with laughter (a rare event with them) I was just old enough to understand their amusement, but had not then learned about solicitors. I have sometimes wondered whether the plate was still there, it is nice to know the joke lives on.

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: GUEST,thurg
Date: 06 Mar 06 - 05:45 PM

In Peterborough, Ontario, there was and perhaps still is a boutique at the bus station called, "Terminal Maternity". Always gave me a shudder.

In St. Albert, Alberta, is a law firm the name of which has a decidedly Dickensian ring: "Weary & Company".

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: GUEST,Van
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 11:29 AM

In Margate there is a bakers called Bab's Baps.

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 01:07 PM

There used to be a fish shop in St Helens called

If it swims, Alf's got it!

Subject: RE: BS: unlikely ads
From: frogprince
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 03:07 PM

We have had "Rooster's Mens Hair Grooming" here in town for awhile; under their name, their ad says, "where the toilet seat is always up" Well, that sounds fine, if you only have to pee ...