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Pun shops

Anna PS found this chippie.
A dogmatic optician in London.
Another hairdresser, by a canal, from Tom Steinberg.
A Norwegian pun shop.
A reverse pun? Israeli confectionery displays Japanese-level branding panache.
Taken by Tom Steinberg in Oakham.
Why is an accountant called “Wired”, even in France?
In the 17th, Paris. My pun-sense says this is a pun, but I don’t yet understand how.
In Chichester, Good Friday 2009. Chichester does not have a high standard of puns.
In Chichester, Good Friday 2009.
A school on Vallance Road, E1, divides its pedestrian traffic in a way that looks ineffectual. I've not actually gone round while the pupils are arriving or leaving to see how well it works.
The Bank of Ireland has a cash machine!
This really is a pun shop. Read the small print. (In Dublin.)
A strangely unappetising smoothie bar at Stansted airport.
How the East End markets got their wacky reputation.
Why the Irish don't export bread to France.
Another Paris pun shop. It really did deal in plumbing, whereas the name really refers to engravings.
Another from James McKenzie.
One taken by James McKenzie on Catherine Street, Cambridge in July 2008.
The owners of this shop in Poissy surely can't have been unaware of the double entendre, but who would name a restaurant C(roc)RAP(ide)?
Not really a pun, but most alarming. Look at the small print. Seen in Les Halles.
The shop in the 5th that inspired the collection when I spotted it in 2002 during the Monteverdi Choir production of Obéron. I finally found time to snap it.
In the 2nd.
One snapped by James McKenzie in October 2007.
I found this hairdresser in Abingdon behind the old Town Hall. Hairdressers often have awful puns as names; what on earth is this?
Goodness only knows what this is doing in Valencia.
This nourty water was offered with lunch at the Maritime museum.
Why do so many Indian restaurants have such a snigger-inducing name? A web search reveals that it's not just restaurants, either: hotels, library supplies and several cities, to name but three, share the name. It seems to come from the French "gaillard", meaning a "merry fellow".
More of a juxtapunsition. These shops were on Northcote Road in London in 2007, when I lived nearby.
Spotted in Paris shortly after seeing the Gabriele Muccino film "The Pursuit of Happyness".
Apparently the Italians don't like free software in their car parks.
Failed highwaymen who have turned instead to providing entertainment during the Rome marathon.
Near the King's Road, Chelsea.
Near South Kensington tube.
Even in Nice the pun shops are English!
Another one for the collection.
One for the collection. In Galleria Colonna.
What is it about hairdressers? The sign is rather easier to read than the window.
A shop in the 13th.