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Williamsburg Nail Shop Wins Pun Contest
North Williamsburg just got a whole lot more fun for pun enthusiasts. Please welcome the nail shop called… Finailly to the corner of Driggs and N. 11th. (FINAILLY!) Pedicures $22, manicures $10! I will be attending just because that is a terrible, terrible pun.
I'll take Wok Around the Clock, thanks.
Thai me up! Also so enjoy the texting skateboarder in the foreground.
@amuselouche I moved out of Brooklyn, USA, a few years ago so when I saw that building and was like "That's Williamsburgh?" But then I saw the man in shorts with a purse texting while on a skateboard and realized, yeah, that's the WB all right.
Cutie Calls on Metropolitan and Graham always struck me as special.
@willystaley That's my hood; I like that one too.
You can have your reception there!
For all your nail emerygencies.
@sorry your heinous These nail places are popping up at a pretty rapid clip.
@boyofdestiny Maybe we should keratiny bit more about zoning?
@sorry your heinous We won't find the manicure for our social ills if we don't get more involved.
@sorry your heinous: Cuticle without commentary.
@boyofdestiny I can't stand by acetone of our political debate gets uglier and uglier.
@sorry your heinous What happened to the good old days, when political rhetoric was civil and polished.
@boyofdestiny Somehow, we must find a way to Press-On.
@boyofdestiny The rank and file can't afford to remain quiet, that's for sure.
@sorry your heinous Nailed it.
@boyofdestiny
Not all of these are really up to scratch.
@sorry your heinous BRILLIANT
I can't get over how the phone sums up the new Williamsburg with one frame. Guy passes new condo building riding a longboard wearing boat shoes texting on an iPhone carrying a totebag, probably full of back issues of The Believer.
Next to a Honda Civic from 1998. Just like in Des Moines.
@Adam Clark Estes@twitter And he's not very buff.
Think I saw one called Hand Job on Castro Street.
Just about the only things opening these days in SF are nail parlors and restaurants. So put it down to name pressure.
I'm always game for a good hair salon with a punderful name.
- Hair Force
- Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
- (insert your favorite here)…
@ribstbbq I used to live in a town with a a chain of barbers called "The Mane Man" I loved it. But then I really fall for a good pun named business, owning one is a life goal of mine.
@ribstbbq This is a map of German hairdressers with the same few punny names. Someone did this thing: http://bigthink.com/ideas/21411
@ribstbbq Hair Port, CurlupandDye
can we please talk about "Cutie Calls" nail salon on Metropolitan/Graham?
I have been running this over in my mind for at least a year. Is it a play on "cuticles" or "booty calls" or both? Is it a "nail shop" that is actually an escort service? Can't help but notice they never have any customers…
@prrtyfood You're the second one to mention this. You are right! It's a pun on cuticles, but Cutie Calls doesn't really mean anything. I still like it and I've been a customer.
@prrtyfood No! I totally go there! And I only escort part-time.
I'm sorry. Store? There's a store? With a pun, or something?
All I'm seeing is a grown man with a tote bag texting on a skateboard.
All of the tales of Williamsburg now make horrible, horrible sense.
@Emily L. Hauser@twitter Someone's gotta name and shame that motherfucker.
I. KNOW. I was dying. The best part was that he STOPPED SKATING in the bike lane to text. I was like HONEY.
@Emily L. Hauser@twitter: The photographer missed an even better shot 10 seconds later, when the lady on the sidewalk shook her cane at this guy and yelled, "Ah, go home, ya fuckin' douchelord!"
@Bittersweet That lady was pretty much me.
Can't beat us Brits in the bad pun stakes