What You Should Never Name Your Business If You Go With A Broadway Theme

[Craig]

What You Should Never Name Your Business If You Go With A Broadway Theme#1

Posted: 4/1/07 at 2:37pm

There's the obvious ones like "Sweeney Todd's Salon" and "Mrs. Lovett's Smokehouse"

But what about these (and add your own!)

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Savings & Loan
My Fair Lady Off Track Betting
Spring Awakening Day Care Center
Carrie's Bridal
Thenardier and Thenardier Law Firm
Mrs. Lovett's Pet Sitting

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka

[vmlinnie]

re: What You Should Never Name Your Business If You Go With A Broadway Theme#2

Posted: 4/1/07 at 2:39pm

Mrs. Andrew Daycare
Defying Gravity Airlines
Mrs. Hanningan's Municipal Orphanage

The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.

Derek Mahon

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

Arthur Miller

[wonderfulwizard11]

re: What You Should Never Name Your Business If You Go With A Broadway Theme#2

Posted: 4/1/07 at 2:41pm

Craig, isn't that Mrs. Mooney's Pet Sitting? She does pop those p*ssies into pies.

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

[rentgal589]

re: What You Should Never Name Your Business If You Go With A Broadway Theme#3

Posted: 4/1/07 at 2:41pm

Go with something from the plotline of a show. For instance, "Rent". How about Life Cafe??

Rum Tum Tugger's Rum and Beer Bar.

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[Craig]

re: What You Should Never Name Your Business If You Go With A Broadway Theme#4

Posted: 4/1/07 at 2:42pm

While actually flying, I prefer my airplane to defy gravity actually :)

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka

[Craig]

re: What You Should Never Name Your Business If You Go With A Broadway Theme#5

Posted: 4/1/07 at 2:43pm

There is a Life Cafe in NYC.. that wasn't made up

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka

[orangeskittles]

re: What You Should Never Name Your Business If You Go With A Broadway Them#6

Posted: 4/1/07 at 2:51pm

For some reason, this thread reminded me of Ayds candy, and the commercials bragging about its ability to help you lose weight.

Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how

[rentgal589]

re: What You Should Never Name Your Business If You Go With A Broadway Them#7

Posted: 4/1/07 at 2:54pm

THERE IS?? NO WAY! I had no idea that wasnt made up. not sarcasm.

I still like my Rum Tum Tugger Rum and Beer Bar. Itz from Cats, btw.

Rentgal589 is soon to be under new management.

[vmlinnie]

re: What You Should Never Name Your Business If You Go With A Broadway Them#8

Posted: 4/1/07 at 2:54pm

I actually thought Defying Gravity would be a good name for a plane, but when I pitched the idea to friends they though superstitious people would be afraid to fly on it for some reason.

If ever I own a plane (which I hope to, although I'd like some kind of futuristic e-friendly one) I'll give the Defying Gravity name a shot!

The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.

Derek Mahon

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

Arthur Miller

[Craig]

re: What You Should Never Name Your Business If You Go With A Broadway Them#10

Posted: 4/1/07 at 3:10pm

Ilona's Bookshop

The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas Bible Study Camp

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka

[CapnHook]

re: What You Should Never Name Your Business If You Go With A Broadway Them#11

Posted: 4/1/07 at 3:21pm

Captain Hook's Pawn Shop

Hal Prince's Tony Award Store (he seems to make his own, don't he?)

Elaine Strich's ABC Store (when she wasn't off the drink, you WOULDN'T want to go in THAT store!)

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

[CapnHook]

re: What You Should Never Name Your Business If You Go With A Broadway Them#12

Posted: 4/1/07 at 3:21pm

The Disney Store

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

[Shakespearean]

re: What You Should Never Name Your Business If You Go With A Broadway Them#13

Posted: 4/1/07 at 3:22pm

Little Mermaid Sushi?
A bar called Damned Yankees anywhere in the Bronx...
Once Upon a Dial-a-Mattress?
It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a Superstore?

[rentgal589]

re: What You Should Never Name Your Business If You Go With A Broadway Them#14

Posted: 4/1/07 at 3:22pm

disney store! lol

Rentgal589 is soon to be under new management.

[lovesclassics]

re: What You Should Never Name Your Business If You Go With A Broadway Them#15

Posted: 4/1/07 at 3:36pm

Titanic Cruise Lines
Freddy Benson's Beef Jerky
Madame Guillotine's Butcher Shop
Lost and Found Overnight Delivery
Norma Desmond Cosmetics
Rocky Horror Bed and Breakfast
Frankenstein and Son Electricians

I could go on...

lc

[mint0621]

re: What You Should Never Name Your Business If You Go With A Broadway Them#16

Posted: 4/1/07 at 3:51pm

Eponine's Matchmaking Services

[SNLMedia]

re: What You Should Never Name Your Business If You Go With A Broadway Them#17

Posted: 4/1/07 at 4:01pm

The Turnblad Diet Center

"The world is a better place because of hairspray." - Michael Ball

[HumATune]

re: What You Should Never Name Your Business If You Go With A Broadway Them#18

Posted: 4/1/07 at 4:02pm

Valjean’s Bakery.

[keen on kean]

re: What You Should Never Name Your Business If You Go With A Broadway Them#19

Posted: 4/1/07 at 4:03pm

Bobby's Marriage Counseling

[WickedGeek28]

re: What You Should Never Name Your Business If You Go With A Broadway Them#20

Posted: 4/1/07 at 4:09pm

Mrs. Mooney's Cat Shelter

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

re: What You Should Never Name Your Business If You Go With A Broadway Them#21

Posted: 4/1/07 at 4:13pm

I was walking around Stamford, CT and, well...

[Jon]

re: What You Should Never Name Your Business If You Go With A Broadway Them#22

Posted: 4/1/07 at 4:19pm

Willie Conklin's Automotive Detailing

Sarah's Child Care

Coalhouse Walker Jr's Fire Prevention

Harold Hill's School of Music

The Hedy LaRue School of Business

Fosca's School of Beauty and Charm

The Lockstock and Barrel Security Company
Updated On: 4/1/07 at 04:19 PM

[keen on kean]

re: What You Should Never Name Your Business If You Go With A Broadway Them#23

Posted: 4/1/07 at 4:21pm

There is actually a chain of hair places called Sweeney Todd, in addition to the one in the Stamford Mall. Probably okay since no one goes there for a shave any more.

[Luckydave14]

re: What You Should Never Name Your Business If You Go With A Broadway Them#24

Posted: 4/1/07 at 5:49pm

Yeah, I've seen a Sweeney Todd barber shop. Thought it was quite an odd name for one haha

[AC126748]

re: What You Should Never Name Your Business If You Go With A Broadway Them#25

Posted: 4/1/07 at 5:51pm

The James and Mary Tyrone Family Counselling Center

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body