Some C nt Is Stealing Our Shop Signage

Friar Tucked

t’s been happening around the town for a few weeks now – begorrah, some wag has been removing choice letters from various shop signs.

And so it is that you can currently eat straight from the bone at The Hung Monk, or pop in for an LGBT coffee at Cafe Gay.

Or, if geography is your thing, you could always ask for directions in Donnybrook Far.

We’re sure here at GG HQ that all this vowel play could be a little bit more imaginative though. And more adventurous. Akin to when The Hot Spot used to be Cooper’s restaurant, and the following owners, to save money on new letters, just renamed the place Opresco.

How about Jokers becoming Jerkos? Or Bochellis becoming Belch Soil, Insomnia getting religion with Sin o’ Man, or Rudi & Madison becoming a family medical practice called Dud Arm & Son? Amoc could become a gun shop, just by losing the ‘c’, whilst The Burnaby could become a doula birthing station called The Baby Urn, Caffe Delle Stelle could specialise in discount footwear for the obese and change their name to Led Feet Fall Sale, and The Royal Garden could specialise in Buddhist football coaching as Rad Yen Goal.

Oh, and given the amount of grocery money that goes over the counter in Paddy Power, they could just be done with it by throwing away half the letters and renaming the place Dad Row.

Unfortunately, to stop such fun and frolics occurring, there are plans afoot by the above-mentioned businesses to install hidden security cameras to catch this very tall consonant burglar. The culprit could, of course, be a little fecker with a stepladder, or even two little feckers, with a future in the circus.

Either way, it was fun while it lasted. Ya sly little b stards.