Christopher Howse in the Telegraph wonders how long a new shop in Dover Street named 'Acne' will last, following the demise of a Westminster cafe named 'Mange' after even Londoners became familiar with the skin condition of urban foxes. Regular visitors to Calais will also no doubt recall the trainer shop on the Bd Jacquard named 'Athlete's Foot'.
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Damon Runyon often referred to his various haunts on Broadway as 'Spots', so why not?
Acne street is just a pimple on the asshole of Britain.
Mayhap they meant 'ackney ?
Hyper cool Swedish fashion label... It's always puzzled me how they got away with it, especially when you consider Swedes do speak English very well, unlike the Italians, who own "Smeg". Long before Red Dwarf this had teenagers fit to be tied as any fuel kno it's short for smegma.
Innit?
Please Radders...
The most incompetent piece of marketing I have ever encountered is trying to sell housewives a particularly healthy, useful and abundant oil under the name "Rape".
And coming soon, as near as possible to the lie-factory, a shop called:
PUSTULE.
Um
I used to buy boots from a shop in the Kings Road named R Soles.
I hope they weren't refering to their customers.
The "Athlete's Foot" franchise is pretty big in Australia.
I have to say I think the name is pretty funny, and the business model seems to work fine. I know because I have a family member who owns one.
Perhaps it's an Ozzie thing though...
"Athlete's Foot" is a sizeable chain in France, and always brings a smile. And in a small town in Languedoc I came across a dog-pampering business called "Dog Toilet"...
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