Pat’s Point of View

Don’t you just love the clever names people come up with for their businesses? I have taken note of some real beauties lately, including:

• Like Hart Spa – spa and beauty salon in Leichhardt
• Dough – pizza joint in Abbotsford
• Hair to Toe – beauty salon in Drummoyne
• Curl Up And Dye – another salon (can you see a pattern?), this time in Castle Hill
• Of course there’s the classic Dial-a-Dump, which I was surprised to learn is only a rubbish removal service :)
• Shu-Fiks – shoe repair store in Rhodes
• Free Stuff – additive free mini-mart in Five Dock

I’ve even thought of a few myself:

• Suds’n'Surf – combined laundromat and internet cafe
• KalashniCafe – even revolutionaries need good coffee. Note: it helps if you pronounce Cafe as “kaf” (like the Brits do) rather than “kafay”

Now that I’ve mentioned it you’ll probably notice them everywhere. It’s almost as infectious as ‘reading’ car license plates (eg IAM-26C = “I am too sexy”)…once you start you can’t not notice (but that’s a whole other story :)

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