Here's to Hair
My vast team of researchers has recently concluded that of all the businesses that tend toward too too cute names, hairdressing salons tops the list. Indeed, no other establishments come even close in their embrace of bad puns and silly wordplay. Some favorites: The Hairport, Hair Today Gone Tomorrow, The Hair Appparent, Ceylon Salon (proving its a universal thing), The Clip Joint, Knotty Girl Hair and Body Care, The Kindest Cut, Beauty and the Beach, Shear Madness, Hair Traffic, Hair Hair, The Cutting Edge, Sit Still, and Off the Top. But my favorite all-time business slogan has to be that of the Culver City Meat Company, whose trucks roam the streets with large letters on the side proclaiming, "You Can't Beat Our Meat." As Dave Barry says, I'm not making this up.
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:10 AM
8 Comments:
Or wassss that hair cut on purpose??????? Pay back time!
Reminds me of something that happened to me when I was married to my second husband and I have told this story very few times.
There was a hair salon in the same building that my husband had his office in. We entertained often and always included people from the other offices. This gal cut my hair for years. She moved to a much larger space and had a grand opening. We had everyone over to our home for an after opening celebration and I went all out with presenting her with an oil painting and even made fresh pasta made from scratch....yummy... she was the last person to leave and did not have a ride home, so I had to drive her. She made a move on me which came as a shock...... she did not want to take no for an answer but I was very firm about it. I was very shaken up but decided not to tell anyone about it. I had never had an experience like that before or since in my life. When I went in for my next hair cut, she butchered me.... I had to go to someone else to have it redone.
There was a hair salon in Auburn when I was in college called "Curl Up And Dye".
Although I appreciated the humor in it's name, I didn't want my hair to be a source of endless amusement for others, so I never went there.
Hey! How does your blog space know my name is Katherin? I never told it, and up until now I've had to sign in as "Kate".
You have a very intelligent blog space!
Katherin/Kate, I dunno. This blog often marches to its own drummer... but I love that hair salon name. Anybody else have some contributions?
Great story, Katherine. Now you've made me look at my cartoon in a whole new light.... could it be that the hairdresser has put the moves on Mrs. D. Naaaah.
Love this one, John C. Have to agree though, don't think that he put the move on Mrs. D instead think that he might have had a set-to with his better half that morning or worse yet, got a bad cup of coffee to start the day instead of Seattle's Best, says she laughing.
Drawing a complete blank on cutesy names at the moment.
No cutesy salon names, but in the more general commercial category, an interstate trucking company called Campbell's Express used to emblazon their cartoon mascot -- a galloping dromedary -- on the side of their semi-trailers along with their triple-entendre slogan, "We're humpin' to please!" I haven't seen one in years. Prhaps they've gone out of business.
And years ago, on my bus trips back to college, the Greyhound would pull out of the Chicago terminal and wind through a few blocks of dingy industrial loft buildings in the west Loop. In the dimming twilight, uniformly dark windows and totally deserted streets evoked faded Victorian glories. One old gray edifice solemnly announced, in proper brass capitals, the home offices of the Amazon Hose and Rubber Co. Somehow, I knew better than to analyze too deeply the complex amusement this title gave me, though I still chuckle trying to imagine what forms the products of this firm might take.
what's an ixthvs?
And your blog space forgot my name already!
Love those examples, ixthvs!
We have an electrician's van running around here with the slogan "Let us remove your shorts!" hahaha
Interesting topic John... really gets yer thinking! :-)
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