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And the winner of the 2026 best tanning salon name goes to Spar-Tan on Trimdon Street, Sunderland.

Is there a technical term for these pun-based shop names, e.g. the fish and chip shop called The Codfather, etc etc? Share your favourites in the comments!

PS. The shutter, now ghosted, looks to have been painted very recently, circa 2021: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ptRuBXLa8X8HZkkV7.

Photo: Joe Harrison, 216 Signs (https://www.216signs.net).

#Signs #Shops #Spartan #Puns #Humour #Sunderland

And the winner of the 2026 best tanning salon name goes to Spar-Tan on Trimdon Street, Sunderland.

Is there a technical term for these pun-based shop names, e.g. the fish and chip shop called The Codfather, etc etc? Share your favourites in the comments!

PS. The shutter, now ghosted, looks to have been painted very recently, circa 2021: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ptRuBXLa8X8HZkkV7.

Photo: Joe Harrison, 216 Signs (https://www.216signs.net).

#Signs #Shops #Spartan #Puns #Humour #Sunderland

And the winner of the 2026 best tanning salon name goes to Spar-Tan on Trimdon Street, Sunderland.

Is there a technical term for these pun-based shop names, e.g. the fish and chip shop called The Codfather, etc etc? Share your favourites in the comments!

PS. The shutter, now ghosted, looks to have been painted very recently, circa 2021: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ptRuBXLa8X8HZkkV7.

Photo: Joe Harrison, 216 Signs (https://www.216signs.net).

#Signs #Shops #Spartan #Puns #Humour #Sunderland

And the winner of the 2026 best tanning salon name goes to Spar-Tan on Trimdon Street, Sunderland.

Is there a technical term for these pun-based shop names, e.g. the fish and chip shop called The Codfather, etc etc? Share your favourites in the comments!

PS. The shutter, now ghosted, looks to have been painted very recently, circa 2021: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ptRuBXLa8X8HZkkV7.

Photo: Joe Harrison, 216 Signs (https://www.216signs.net).

#Signs #Shops #Spartan #Puns #Humour #Sunderland

And the winner of the 2026 best tanning salon name goes to Spar-Tan on Trimdon Street, Sunderland.

Is there a technical term for these pun-based shop names, e.g. the fish and chip shop called The Codfather, etc etc? Share your favourites in the comments!

PS. The shutter, now ghosted, looks to have been painted very recently, circa 2021: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ptRuBXLa8X8HZkkV7.

Photo: Joe Harrison, 216 Signs (https://www.216signs.net).

#Signs #Shops #Spartan #Puns #Humour #Sunderland

With the recent release of SmolServe v1.0, a lightweight server for serving #Gemini, #Gopher, #Finger and #Spartan, and the upcoming release of a Smolnet browser for Android devices which will also support lesser-known/newer protocols such as #Nex, #Text, #Scroll, #Titan, #Guppy, #Scorpion, #Mercury, #FSP, #Molerat and #Terse, it seems like the #smolweb and interest in it is far from having peaked yet.

More about #Roman Priestesses

An ancient priesthood of #Hera at Olympia involved “sixteen elderly women” (Connelly, 45), based on a “board of #FemaleElders once chosen from sixteen cities” (Connelly, 45) who negotiated “#peace between two cities’ (Connelly, 45) who had been at war.
 
“Priestesses seem to have initiated and negotiated #laws, #amendments, and penalties for transgressions” (Connelly, 214). Some priestesses wielded enormous influence: the Pythia of Delphi “could move scores of people to action” (Connelly, 219), and a #Pythia “is credited with having provided #Lykourgos with the #Spartan system of government”.

#AncientWomen #PostMenopausalWomen #AncientHistory #Autonomy #WomensRights #History #Histodon #RomanWomen #AncientRome #RomanPriesthood