The OFFICIAL Unofficial Achewood Message Board

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

Listen, I've been duped by "English-speaking" pizza places before.

Pages: 1 [2]   Go Down

Author Topic: I'll have my stake medium rare  (Read 5531 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

V-Adore

  • Guest
I'll have my stake medium rare
« Reply #15 on: December 06, 2005, 05:57:38 pm »
Wow, those are... something, all right. "Stars of Promise Inc." sounds like some sort of sinister corporate front that will indoctrinate my child into being a mercenary or developing her superpowers, but even so, I'd take it over most of the other options there. I've always wanted a superhero in the family, and I hear sinister corporations pay well enough.
Logged

Beatrice

  • Todd
  • Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 10
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 280
    • View Profile
I'll have my stake medium rare
« Reply #16 on: December 06, 2005, 07:15:33 pm »
My mom works with special needs preschoolers and often has to go out to do on-site testing with the kiddoes to see if they qualify for services.  Not only does she get ridiculously-named daycares as seen above, but also ridiculously named kids.  I'm not sure if I said all this on here before because it's one of my favorite things to say, but she's seen a whole slew of weirdo and/or ghetto parents naming their children all things from mystic to cryptic to brand name things.  Some of my favorite (LEGAL) names:

Red Thunder
YoHighness and YoMagesty (brothers, I think Twins)
Lexus, DelMonte, Nike...

And then the many nicknames, including Lil' Biscuit.

And my cousin tells a story from high school in Baltimore where at opening ceremony the principle read through the names of all the new freshman at this private all-girls boarding school and got to "Yellowjello" and "Orangejello" and struggled to start by saying "Uhm, Yellow..." in response to which a girl stood up quickly and (as my cousin tells it) sort of leaned back and said, "It's YUH-LAN-JHA-LO!" and that her sister's name was "OR-RHAN-JHA-LO!"

REally, how hard can having kids be?!
Logged

CortJstr

  • Mod Squad
  • Philippe is standing on it
  • Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 338
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 9820
  • Which gives us AN EXCUSE TO DRINK!
    • View Profile
I'll have my stake medium rare
« Reply #17 on: December 06, 2005, 09:48:36 pm »
I've heard many "friend of a friend" stories involving poor Lemonjello and Orangello.

I thought it was great when a seafood restaurant opened up in Sterling and the sign outside just said "Eat at Joe's" Then I later found out the place is actually called Joe's Crab Shack (and is supposedly owned by Tom Landry) which just sucked all the fun out of it. It should have just been called Joe's.
Logged

Lister

  • Teodor
  • Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 101
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 892
  • 2, 4, 6, 8, time to transubstantiate!
    • View Profile
I'll have my stake medium rare
« Reply #18 on: December 07, 2005, 02:56:19 am »
There's a place in San Jose named Original Joe's, which is a wonderful anachronism all on its own.  It was opened in 1956 and apparently hasn't changed (except for prices - geeze) since then.

There's a big grill at one side, you can sit at the counter across from it or at tables, where waiters in tuxes and aprons serve you.  Best steak fries ever.

Anyway, it too has signs that read "Eat at Joe's."

Aside from that, the oddest restaurant name I can think of is Tenda Chick.  I don't generally dig Asian food, so I don't know any cool restaurant names for that.
Logged
Lister.  Not that one, the other one.

Beatrice

  • Todd
  • Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 10
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 280
    • View Profile
I'll have my stake medium rare
« Reply #19 on: December 07, 2005, 03:04:03 pm »
Quote from: "CortJstr"
I've heard many "friend of a friend" stories involving poor Lemonjello and Orangello.


I love that story.  Usually people believe me. Curses! (But the others are real)
Logged

wombat

  • English-Speaking Pizza
  • Moderator
  • Dude since Knucklehead times
  • *
  • Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 644
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 12493
  • Yeah man, these are pugs, not some fuck*ng lolcat.
    • View Profile
I'll have my stake medium rare
« Reply #20 on: December 07, 2005, 03:17:16 pm »
Quote from: "Hobo Frenzy"
They named the store "Decent Food Mart".


Oh, I would go there in a minute.  Isn't that all any of us really want, a decent food mart?
Logged
What is this, the fuckin' Algonquin Round Table or some shit?  - Nabu

If you're going to change your life then you have to change it every day, not just the days the world isn't taking a shit on you. -Doc

AugustWest

  • Over Easy
  • Philosopher King
  • Dude since Knucklehead times
  • *
  • Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 774
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 10549
  • Bulbous, also tapered.
    • View Profile
I'll have my stake medium rare
« Reply #21 on: December 07, 2005, 06:51:51 pm »
Actually, I've been hoping for an Indecent Food Mart to open locally.  I'm continually disappointed.
Logged
Infinitely vast, infinitely detailed.

Hobo Frenzy

  • Showbiz
  • Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 3
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 222
  • fuck*ng Moto Guzzi
    • View Profile
    • the best site in the universe
I'll have my stake medium rare
« Reply #22 on: December 07, 2005, 10:53:15 pm »
Indecent food mart...kinda like a strip club super market?
Logged
Hey, what's this? Cursive?

Ben-San

  • -=Ray=-
  • Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 164
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1259
  • Two-Fisted Detective
    • View Profile
I'll have my stake medium rare
« Reply #23 on: December 08, 2005, 01:21:06 am »
Indecent food marts are generally found in strip malls.
Logged

Choop

  • Mod Squad
  • LAZARUS, Tasseled Loafer of the Powerful
  • Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 1010
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 4260
  • www dot at rick and morty dot com www
    • View Profile
I'll have my stake medium rare
« Reply #24 on: December 16, 2005, 09:01:34 pm »


Just up the street from my house. Note the former O in Restaurant.
Logged
Nobody exists on purpose; nobody belongs anywhere; everybody's gonna die. Come watch TV?

V-Adore

  • Guest
I'll have my stake medium rare
« Reply #25 on: December 16, 2005, 10:05:29 pm »
It's the jumping orcas (?) for O's that bother me most there. The former O is pretty blatant but also pretty clever, I think.
Logged

pmcd9

  • Mod Squad
  • Dude since Knucklehead times
  • *
  • Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 608
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 12778
  • The Kid is up to no good
    • View Profile
I'll have my stake medium rare
« Reply #26 on: December 16, 2005, 10:25:10 pm »
Quote from: "Choopernickel"

That is just so heartbreakingly beautiful.
Logged
I hope I never have to refer to a scone in spoken conversation.

Golfhaus

  • VIP
  • Onstad's Left Shoe
  • *
  • Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 116
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 1625
  • He does not approve. Not at all.
    • View Profile
    • http://www.prolefeed.com
I'll have my stake medium rare
« Reply #27 on: December 17, 2005, 04:12:56 pm »
Maybe they just haven't found anything clever for

"THE BEST    ALWAY FRESH"

yet.

I used to live in Smithfield, VA (the home of those delicious Smithfield hams, my school bus route took us past the meat packing plant daily) and there is a water tower there that has "WELCOME TO SMITHFIELD" on it. But the "WELCOME TO" is a smaller font than the SMITHFIELD is. The reason for this is that when they painted it originally, they forgot the word "TO," so for at least a decade, probably longer, the water tower read, "WELCOME SMITHFIELD."
Logged

theinevitable

  • Writer's Workshoppers
  • Dude since Knucklehead times
  • *
  • Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 486
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 12139
    • View Profile
    • tweet tweet fun fun
Re: I'll have my stake medium rare
« Reply #28 on: December 18, 2005, 04:54:38 pm »
in a south carolina town just south of where I live, there is a japanese restaurant. It is run by americans. southern americans. it is called "Japan". They pronounce it "Jay-payun". It is very embarassing.

Logged
Social pressures exist
And if you think about them all of the time
You're gonna find that your head's been kicked in
You're gonna do it all for the grind

pmcd9

  • Mod Squad
  • Dude since Knucklehead times
  • *
  • Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 608
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 12778
  • The Kid is up to no good
    • View Profile
Re: I'll have my stake medium rare
« Reply #29 on: December 19, 2005, 06:12:18 pm »
Quote from: Golfhaus on December 17, 2005, 04:12:56 pm
"THE BEST    ALWAY FRESH"
I thought the best never rests...

~Paul
Logged
I hope I never have to refer to a scone in spoken conversation.
Pages: 1 [2]   Go Up
« previous next »