The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #47492   Message #708563
Posted By: Mr Red
10-May-02 - 08:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: Funny Names of Businesses
Subject: RE: BS: Funny Names of Businesses
Liz the Squeak
that Savage dentist? Would it have been Walsall? Can't remember the first initial but the surname yes.
Doolittle and Dally -estate agents (realtors) in Kidderminster & Bridgnorth, though my Aunt insisted they were solicitors (lawyers) and I saw the name in gold on a door as we drove past - they looked like solicitors in the 50's.
Estate ageents in Leicester German & Dutch.
A folkie who lived in Altrincham insists there was a pharmacist who's trading over the window name was "I Pillham".
then there was Mike Bender the physiotherapist on "Tomorrow's World" (TV science) a week back. This is what the New Scientist calls "nominative determinism".