What Not To Name A Barbershop
Posted: Monday, April 13, 2009
by Kennedy's Barber Club
Kennedy's All-American Barber Club
What a business names itself can make or break it. For every brand name like Xerox or Kleenex that has entered our everyday language, theres a failed one like the Chinese Chocolate they decided to call Swine or the Greek soft drink labeled Zit.
And for some reason, when it comes to local shops and stores, puns are always the go-to method when the owner wants to raise the cleverness bar. For example, theres the accountant who named his business Brass Tax not to mention the self-explanatory Royal Flush Cesspool Sewer & Drain Cleaning and the inviting Canadian fast-food chicken place, Lick-A-Chick.
But frankly, there is only one all-time champion when it comes to continually combining bad spelling and outrageous puns and thats the barbershop and hair salon industry.
Think of A Cut Above. Or Hair and Now. Or Hair We Are. You get the idea. There are so many different bad barbershop and salon names, that there are endless opportunities to categorize them. For instance, maybe classic rock is in your groove. Then go with The Grateful Head, Hairway to Heaven, or just a generic Choice Cuts. Or perhaps you like classic movies? Try Dye Hard, From Hair to Eternity or Best Little Hair House!
Of course, theres also classic literature, where you can invoke Julius Scissors, Ali Barber ShearLocks Homes or defy the Romans with the rallying cry, Im Sparti-Cuts.
Maybe you just want to pretend youre not a barbershop. No problem! Try The Locks Smith, The Hair Port, Hair ODome or Hair Force One. Better yet dont!
Why hair equals hilarity for the barbershop owners who resort to these painful names isnt quite clear. What is clear is there is an apparently endless list of them already in use.
If you dont believe that, heres just a few names actually in use here in the good ol USA: American Hair Lines, Clip Joint, Clippity Do Da, Cliptomania, Cut Me Loose, Cutter Shark, The Cutting Edge, The Hair-After, Hair Apparent, Hair Loom, Hair-O-Dynamics, Hairoscope, Hair of Respectability, Hair To Stay, Hairs Johnny, Hair-Riffic, Hairs To You, Heads You Win, Locks of Luck, The Mane Attraction, Mane Street, The Million Hairs, Now Hair This, Shear Delight, Shear Happiness, Shear Joy, Shear Luck, Shears To You, Soul Scissors, Upper Cutsand for all of you who fondly remember Joe DiMaggioThe Yankee Clipper.
Had enough? We thought so. Thats why, when it came time to name our barber club franchise, we went through Shear Torture. But Hairs the Thing in the end, we knew we wanted to have a name that actually meant something.
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