David Gray's pictures of the week 8-1-2007

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This week's pictures are about funny shop names. These can be intentional or unintentional and certain retail trades seem much more prone to them than others. Shoe shops and hairdressers, for some reason, are especially fond of puns. Clothes shops will often go for an amusing moniker to stand out from the crowd. Independents are more likely to risk a funny name than multiples, though that didn't stop Richard Branson with Virgin or Anita Roddick with Body Shop. Undertakers, obviously, are not going to want anyone laughing at their names. That was why, when the first Body Shop opened in Brighton in 1976, the undertaker opposite tried (unsuccessfully) to get it closed because he thought the name would upset his (living) customers. His building now sells army surplus clothing and the place next door is called Wai Kika Moo Kau. But that's another story - it's a restaurant.

Think global, think tap at this shop in Brighton, January 2007 (image 2710-4)

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