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[–] [email protected] 186 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

For those not familiar with US retailers, the punchline is:

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I feel like US has a store chain with every conceivable name at this point.

And hearing about chains called like Five Guys just sounds weird to be honest.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

every conceivable name

Yeah, there used to be a Gaylords department store.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

At least that one makes sense for a store, they probably got a lot of their stock in gaylords.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's also a restaurant chain which is also named Dick's

The "Eat some Dick's" jokes write themselves.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

What the fuck Richard

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wait till you find out about Two Men and a Truck!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The best is the website is twomen.com

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Risky click of the day in this context

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I dread to think what comes up if you search for those restaurants near you...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I feel like you could craft us chain store names into some innuendo sentence or even paragraph

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That makes more sense than Big 5

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Lol i thought that was Steam until i reread his bubble and was like "Uhmm?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks from the UK

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago