Kate's Bellybutton Lint Collection

I used to think blogs were self-indulgent navel gazing, but now I'm not so sure. From a practical standpoint, they're great for keeping up with friends, especially when you're awful about keeping in touch (like me). I know most people could probably care less what I think or do in a given week. For everyone else, this blog's for you! Enjoy my collection of hand-picked navel lint!

July 09, 2016

Lame names

We have a few storefronts in our neighborhood that give us a chuckle every time we walk by.


To give it context, this is a Creole restaurant. Not exactly a mouth-watering name choice. Perhaps better suited to a Bikram Yoga facility.



This next one HAS to represent one of those lost-in-translation moments.  Is this where you open a "shavings" account?


Every time Mickey and I walk by this place, we both shout "BOILING!!" at the same time and giggle.  This - hands down - has to be the lamest name for a restaurant.  It's like naming your bakery "Baking", or your beauty salon "Cutting".
 OK, this might beat "Boiling" for the lamest name for a business ever conceived.  Slightly better would have been "The Place", or even "De Place" (a real business by that name existed around the corner from us for a while).  But no, "Place" is the best these people could come up with. 

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