B & Q threaten small retailer in Nth East

[Gel]

[Dave Baker]

issues. It's a stupid name for a shop anyway.

[Jim Gregory]

It was explained what B & Screw came from. Daft trade name, and the singular verbs are in such unforgiveable, coarse taste anyway. Very few people ever knew what the abbrevn B & Q stood for, myself included. The odd unfairness, maybe. Bewildered and Queue? Bullying and Quarrelsome?

[Peter Crosland]

Big & Quaint?

Peter Crosland

[William McNicol]

I was told "Block & Quail" after the founders of the original store which got bought out to become B&Q. I imagine Mr B and Mr Q are sunning themselves in some tropical paradise....

I don't think "Block & Quail" would have scaled up the way "B&Q" has.

Cheers,

William.

[Matt]

Block and Quayle

[Peter Scott]

I heard a tale about someone travelling in the States. The hotel asked if he'd got a discount card. Looking through he came across a B & Q card and offered that. 'What's it stand for?' 'Bush and Quayle.' He got his discount! Yes Dan Quayle. Remember him? No best not. The younger Bush learned his style from T Dan Q.

Peter Scott

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Gel" saying something like:

deliberately taking the piss.

[Bob Eager]

Block and Quayle. My wife worked for one of the first half-dozen B&Q stores (before it even opend). I think one of them even came down for the opening.

[Tim S]

Bodgit Quick

[Colin Wilson]

As they say, any publicity is good publicity.

Look at the coverage, and ask what it would have cost him for the same level of advertising on the open market.

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