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Throwback

Long Beach Island, NJ, has some of the corniest and punniest business names still in existence on the eastern seaboard. Among those I spotted this weekend:

House of the Rising Bun
Sunsations
Sunglass Menagerie
Chicken or the Egg
Big Dipper Ice Cream
Pottery Barge
Just Beachy
Just Bead It
Barry's Do Me a Flavor
Say Cheese

Also spotted more than once: the phrase "own make candy," which my lovely wife of five years deciphered as "we do it ourselves," but which linguistically we're still trying to comprehend. And then there's the "coin op laundry/ravioli to take out" sign....

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