Tuesday, May 20, 2008

I stumble into town just like a sacred cow

I've always loved how one of the Chinese takeaways in Riddiford street is called China Grill:


So much so that I thought we should have a little song:
Iggy Pop - China Girl (4.69 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download; play using the handy little embedded player below)



There's gotta be a name for this kind of thing -- like a greengrocer's apostrophe. It's analagous with the tradition (?) of suburban hairdressing salons bestowing such names as "Snipz" or "Cutz" or "Streaks Ahead" or "Hair Today Gone Tomorrow" or whatever upon themselves. Anyone reading this a linguist? An etymologist? A linguistic etymologist?

3 comments:

Unknown said...

there is a hairdresser not far from me called

"It Will Grow Back"

not quite what your on about, but damn fine anyhow. that prince cover is dark, innit......the little dark beauty - the song not prince....mind you....

Anonymous said...

I always sing China Girl aloud when I drive past China Grill (substituting Girl with Grill of course). It's completely involuntary and I can't stop it.

Anonymous said...

Watch out for the closed down China Grill in Miramar, too. It also makes for bad singing.