Atlas Obscura and Digg have generated an incredible interactive map of punnish-named businesses, neatly organized by category.
The pain mixed with pleasure of, say, something as evocative as Hannah and Her Scissors, or something as plainly wrong as A Shoe Grows in Brooklyn surrounds us. After picking through duplicates, over 1,900 businesses made the map, which we think makes it the most complete pun business name map in the world.
There isn’t, to my eye, any discernible concentration to set the map apart from population density and the well-known “resort bonus” increasing the numbers of restaurants and bars on coastlines. Which is to say, everyone in America’s vast cultural tapestry are yet equal offenders when it comes to puns.
Be sure to filter by editors’ choice. For example, “Floral and Hardy,” an Oklahoma City florist, and “What Were You Inking?” a tattoo-removal specialist in Denver.