I drove past a hair-styling parlor with a fancy custom neon sign showing a pair of scissors and the name of the place: "A Notch Above."
Huh?
It should be "A Cut Above." Hair parlors all have lame-ass pun names — Mane Event, Short Cuts, Shear Magic, Curl Up and Dye, Cutting Edge, Hair Today, etc.
A Notch Above just doesn't make sense on any level. That's not even a common figure of speech. You say something or someone is "a CUT above" the norm. Not a notch. Google returns more than 600,000 hits for "A Cut Above" + hair + salon.
Really, if they can't even get their lame-ass pun name right, I wouldn't trust the owners anywhere near my head with sharp objects.
Note: I'm sure the owners of A Notch Above are actually quite skilled and their beauty parlor is undoubtedly a lovely place. They just need to work on their lame-ass puns.
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