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For months now I have been entertaining the idea of opening a fish shop that serves deep-fried and battered food out of unique premises carved from a massive block of sodium chloride.
There, now I've got it off my chest!
a salt and battery
http://www.asaltandbattery.com/
perfect plaice ! [xenzag, Dec 18 2007]
For your shop pun needs.
http://www.amazon.c...cription/0007198132
[Jinbish, Dec 18 2007]
Salt Poisoning Incident in the UK
http://news.bbc.co....d/essex/4287285.stm
A mother systematically poisoned her 9 year-old son by putting salt into a milk food drip. She also faked hospital test results to put doctors off scent. [Jinbish, Dec 19 2007]
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It obviously takes a while for your ideas to crystallise. |
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Doubleplusgood for the deep-fried battered food idea. [+] |
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The name was one that came to me when I passed, in my city, a fish shop whose name I still admire: The Codfather. |
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Sounds like a nice plaice. |
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I'll be buggered! Is there such a thing as an original thought on this planet? Same effect, different intent. Good link, [xenxag]! |
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A chip off the ol' block. |
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The Codfather is a chip shop staple. SaltnBattery is better. The Frying Dutchman is also a classic. I always thought "Yesterday's News" would be a great name for a chippie, but they don't wrap them newspaper these days. |
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<aside>
Did you know that chippies in Glasgow will ask you "salt & vinegar?", whereas in Edinburgh it is "salt & [curry] sauce?"
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No need for a big wahoo, if you cod skirt the trademark violations, (this may require some fin-esse), I am sure this idea remains novel. You could even scale it up into a franchise. But start with the basics. First find an open, adjacent Lot. Net yourself a suitable investor, school yourself in the daily operations, build it, and they will come. In no time you will fillet. |
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if I weren't such a nice gill, I'd mfd this. |
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We'd hake to see this deleted just because some of the annos are a load of pollocks .... it might bring another run of puns to an eely end. Whale that might be a good thing for the HB in the ling run, there is some porpoise in keeping it, at least until Friedy. |
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You could have fish-themed entertainment in the shop, if you bought a stereo Tuna...... |
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To add one more to the list (sorry) of clever shop names, I saw a Thai restaurant somewhere called "Thai-tanium". It's one of the best I've seen (although there are plenty of 'Thai'-based joke names around). |
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My favourite was the Thai restaurant I used to own, "Old School Thai" |
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We specialised in traditional dishes from the Chiang Rai region. |
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+ Now if only there existed organic newspaper. (A bunworthy idea in itself) |
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[UB] The core of the idea is still
original.... and the name is highly
appropriate. I think that names of
submissions should, if possible, be as
inventive as the substance of the ideas. |
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//carved from a massive block of sodium chloride// |
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Those of us from urban areas may not be aware that farmers can buy salt blocks and salt bricks as mineral supplements for their cows. A building could be made of salt blocks or bricks fairly easily, but it might no longer be "a salt". |
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How's about one that serves crackers instead of chips? A salteen battery? |
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Or the one where [bristolz] sited her armoury, the Assaultine Battery. |
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There are many salts, hence the specification that it be of NaCl. Some salts are really toxic, unlike sodium chloride which requires ingestion of more than 100 grams (3-4 oz) to prove fatal to an adult human. |
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<looks round for adult human to test [UB]'s data> |
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[Rayford] beat me to it - I think it could be achievable by arranging a pile of alternate biscuits and appropriately ionic cheese, and drenching the whole lot in vinegar. |
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There was a woman convicted of manslaughter of her 4 year old son here, earlier this year. She forced him to eat a spoonful of salt after he refused to eat some cheese. It killed him in about 3 hours, I believe. |
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It took a UK mother a couple of months to do the same to her kid son. (linky) |
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To prove the old salt I'm sometimes made out to be, I'd say 'Show me the way.' |
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How about a building where one might be
repeatedly bashed about by a woman of
dubious virtue: "A Slattern Battery" |
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