British People Just Love Putting Puns In Their Business Names, And These Are 40 Of The Best Ones

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Damjan

Published in Funny
9 Dec 2020

British People Just Love Putting Puns In Their Business Names, And These Are 40 Of The Best Ones

Britain has a special talent for turning everyday businesses into punchlines, and somehow it works. From cake shops to lawn movers, these names lean all the way into the joke and make the high street a little funnier.

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This roundup pulls together 40 of the best British business name puns, along with a few favorites from beyond the UK. The result is a mix of clever wordplay, oddball branding, and names that are hard to forget once you see them.

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Some of these are so good they deserve a second look, and one breakfast van name may be the best of the bunch.

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Wayne Barber has been running the punny business social media accounts on and off for quite some time. He has been gathering the punniest business names and sharing them on his Twitter account, Punny Business.

Initially, it was great fun to try and find as many punny businesses as I could, and once I’d built up my followers, they started finding them for me.

Wayne admitted that over the years, he has started noticing the same names used repeatedly, and this can get a little boring. Nevertheless, he’s still excited when he sees a completely new pun, especially if it’s hilarious.

Wayne keeps spotting new wordplay, and the best ones still make him stop and smile.

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Wayne mentioned his favorite punny business names: "Much Ado About Muffin" (a cake shop in Stockton-on-Tees, UK), "The Merchant of Tennis" (a sports shop in Toronto, Canada), "Tan'in'Ere" (Stalybridge, UK), and "Ghost Bus Tours" (Ghoulish Based Bud Tours across several UK cities).

His absolute favorite is a play on words with a famed '90s song by a band called Cornershop. "It's a small food van that serves hot breakfast sandwiches of sausage, bacon, and egg, etc., located in a lay-by on the main road near my hometown of Kingston upon Hull, called Brimful of Rasher" (a pun on the '90s song "Brimful of Asha" by Cornershop). It never fails to put a smile on my face.

That breakfast van name is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

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Wayne believes that puns and humor can give passersby a good laugh, and it's not just in Britain. I truly believe that it can help make a business instantly more memorable, and it is more likely to tempt people in, especially if it's a funny one.

Especially if it invokes a bizarre image, such as "Brian Pickles Lawn Movers" or the RSPCA Animal Rescue Charity shop in Bury, UK, having the slogan "Helping Bury Animals." Wayne also said that it all leads to these businesses being talked about and gets some form of free advertising.

And that is exactly why the jokes keep working.