Update: Shop name puns
Wok This Way, viewers.
Send in your photos of puns in shop signs here.
On Monday's show Arthur Smith looked at the history of the pun and we asked you to send in photos of the best punning shop signs near you.
You didn't let us down and we've received 150 pictures, ranging from the hilarious to the downright awful!
Tomorrow (24th July) Arthur will be back with another film looking at puns in shop signs and we'll be showing some of the best on the show.
Thanks to everyone who sent them in
Look at the shop sign pun gallery here.
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i know they probably can't share this on the show but there is a footwear company called Our Soles!!!!
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Theres a gardening services shop in Newcastle called PLANT & DEC ! hahahah class
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A couple of years ago, whilst driving north on the A1 near Sheffield, we passed a lorry owned by a firm that emptied septic tanks etc. The heading on the side was "Intershitty", honest!
Yours,
John Marriott
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There is a company (one man band I think) in Hastings which are concrete and cement people, you know like those Readymix revolving drum trucks. But his firm is called
WILLIAM THE CONCRETER!
Brilliant
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In Uxbridge there were two unwittting puns. The Dynasty takeaway was read as Die nasty by everyone. A firm of accountants were called Biddis and Brown, but you have top know what bidis meant in the fifties to appreciate the latter.
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As regards
male vs female humour
Deadpan always works, Les Dawson, and.....Brummies, Yes Adrian you have funny bones
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you can censor, supress but will not win!
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Local freezer shop in Aberdeen...Alaskansee
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There was a hairdresser in Harrow named New Barnet.
Shop bags have unwitting puns. The other day I saw one that said "Lose yourself in books", but the owner almost lost her books as she left it behind. Years ago bookshops had a bag with multiple versions of "Penguin Books" covering it, the legends often superimposing themselves on each other. Five letters stood out amongst all others, spelling an anotomical part.
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Incidentally Adrian, "Jack the Stripper" is a common shop pun.
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"Curl Up And Dye" is the name of a hairdressers in Newbridge, S. Wales
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I would sugest a shoe shop whos done well, ALL SOLED OUT
Watch repairs SECOUND TIME AROUND
A clairvouant ALL OUR YESTERDAYS
Bahaveral expert CALMAS U LIKE
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