UK Yellow Pages have announced the winner in their competition for clever business names.

1st prize went to Crease Lightening - an ironing service

Other companies considered included a greengrocer by the name of Melon Cauli, an entertainment company Amp & Decks (the Brits will understand that one) and photographer, Flash Gordon.

Very clever. Do you know of any genuine business names along the same lines?

Good question. There are sooo many, but I'm not up to perusing the Yellow Pages tonight so here are three hair salons that my better half has frequented:

The Clipping Cottage

The Razor's Edge

Hair We Are!

A hairdresser called 'Curl Up and Dye'....

My cousin and her partner have a fish-and-chip shop which is famous for its fantastic food and generous portions. It's called "Get Stuffed".

Another one on the list I particularly liked was 'Walter Wall carpets.'
My local favourite is a long-established estate agents, who's actual (not invented) name is 'Gascoigne-Pees'. Anyone in and around South London will know them well, and I've never heard the name Pees anywhere else (unless I decide to change my own to it... ).

The man who installed my carpet a few years ago called his business "Fuzzy Side Up". I don't know how original it is (I believe it is the punch line of an old joke), but it still makes me laugh!

My children get a great giggle out of 'The Poo Man' (he cleans septic tanks!)

I like all of those! There is a funeral directors I know called Sydney Hurry - it always makes me chuckle.

Oh, and of course Wake and Paine, the funeral directors who used to be in Richmond, which was their real names- you just reminded me. And the 'honey wagon' names are always good for a laugh, we've got Polyloo, with a picture of a parrot on them, and Davlavs, which I like as I'm also David. And in case anyone wants to know the source of the original portable toilet, the Elsan, it was 'Ephraim Louis sanitation'. Anyone who's been camping will be very familiar with them...

You are that bit younger than me David, I can remember Elsans in various situations which had nothing to do with camping. Our local church hall had one for a start, then there were some of my relatives who lived in a country lane in Sussex who had one in a privy in the garden. They were fairly common back in the 1950s. The good old days.

There's a fish and chip place here (on the beach front), that when it changed hands recently went from being 'The Codfather' to 'A Plaice in the Sun'. It's next door to a jazz bar called 'Sax on the Beach'.

In my town we have a funeral home called Amigone. And yes, it is their name. And yes again, it is pronunce "Am I gone?"

I heard of one the other day - 'Spruce Springclean', a firm of cleaners.

We had 'Climax cleaners' here in Neasden, which, if I remember rightly was opposite the 'Nu screw and nut company', which is still there. Sorry, it's just how my mind works... (I hope this isn't too much information for the forums!).

I just heard on the radio of a Fish 'n' Chip shop called, 'Salt and Battery'!