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Pho restaurant removes sign following city's concerns over name
Fox News ^ | 01/03/2019 | MIchael Bartiromo

Posted on 01/03/2019 2:57:56 PM PST by DFG

But what are they going to do with all the T-shirts they made up?

The owner of a soon-to-be-opening French-Vietnamese restaurant in New Hampshire is set to meet with the city manager of Keene following concerns that the eatery's name sounds like a profane phrase.

Pho Keene Great, which is not scheduled to open until March, had already displayed a small sign prominently featuring the name, which is a play on both the Vietnamese dish pho (pronounced "fuh") and the name of the town (Keene).

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: keene; localnews; nh; pho; restaurant
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To: DFG

What do they call 69ing in China?


41 posted on 01/03/2019 3:22:30 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: DFG

I would order one of those T-Shirts. I would never wear it outside, though. It would be pinned to the wall near my ‘work desk’, good for a chuckle.


42 posted on 01/03/2019 3:22:53 PM PST by lee martell (AT)
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To: Republicanprofessor

pingy


43 posted on 01/03/2019 3:24:45 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: LydiaLong

Bang Ding Ow.


44 posted on 01/03/2019 3:25:29 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: DFG
Please note: the City is not delaying our opening over the name issue. We just can't have a sign with "Pho Keene Great' on it.

Change your restaurant's name to "Pho Keene Awesome' and tell her that you have complied with her request.

45 posted on 01/03/2019 3:28:52 PM PST by Drew68
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To: DFG

Store owner Som Ting Wong said he didn’t understand the concerns, but is changing the name to Pho King Good.


46 posted on 01/03/2019 3:30:27 PM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: DFG

Far-left Keene had a problem with this??? Wack-a-doodle Free Staters probably put them up to this...


47 posted on 01/03/2019 3:36:38 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: DFG

That is pho keene hilarious!!!


48 posted on 01/03/2019 3:37:01 PM PST by al_c (https://conventionofstates.com)
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To: FrdmLvr

I think maybe they were being a bit disingenuous and considering it an inside joke, assuming most people would pronounce it “fo.”


49 posted on 01/03/2019 3:37:07 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: DFG

Not snowflakinsh, just simply sophomoric...this is dormitory lighting carts kind of stuff...I love humor, but stuff you can say without pushing the envelope is fine.

Give me Red Skelton, Steven Wright, any day...

Close the envelope...it’s gotten old already.


50 posted on 01/03/2019 3:39:47 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Either the Wall gets built or America becomes a democrat socialist state.)
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To: DFG
In regards to the city, Keene, NH is a college town with Keene State University right there on beautiful main street. College towns, like military towns, have the best restaurants. You can get excellent sushi in at least 3 places, they've got very good Mexican foods, you name it.

If a Pho joint opens up all the better for me and best of luck to them.

This venue next to the city hall is directly facing the Central Square.

Central Square is where the "free-staters," those ruggedly individualist New Hampster Libertarians, have milled around for the past 15 years having their dorm-room bull sessions and smoking weed and not much more.

If getting high with a bunch or grumpy 70 year olds who harass meter maids sounds like fun then you will love Keene.

51 posted on 01/03/2019 3:40:51 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: CincyRichieRich

Not snowflakish, just simply sophomoric...this is dormitory lighting farts kind of stuff...I love humor, but stuff you can say without pushing the envelope is fine.

Give me Red Skelton, Steven Wright, any day...

Close the envelope...it’s gotten old already.


52 posted on 01/03/2019 3:41:20 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Either the Wall gets built or America becomes a democrat socialist state.)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Christian’s don’t complain about Cheezes of Nazareth because unlike Liberals God has a sense of Humor.

Satan dosen’t.


53 posted on 01/03/2019 3:43:27 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: DFG

Nothing gets a group of idiots more excited than butting into something that’s none of their damn business.

I reminisce about the good old days when nobody gave a good damn. Remember when people used to simply respond with “just mind your own business”? You would probably be publicly ostracized if you said that now in response to peckerheads like this.


54 posted on 01/03/2019 3:46:57 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: DFG

I lived in that town for quite awhile. That building is also the police station where i did lots of i.t. work. I lived across the street, and if the camera were turned a few degrees to the left, is where the statue of Robin Williams was for jumanji.


55 posted on 01/03/2019 3:47:30 PM PST by Celerity
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To: DFG

LOL I like it. But why French?


56 posted on 01/03/2019 3:48:04 PM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: DFG
Coming up next, an Indian themed restaurant:

"Get a Room, You Can't Fakir."

57 posted on 01/03/2019 3:49:28 PM PST by rfp1234 (I don't watch CNN for the same reason I don't drink from the toilet.)
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To: American in Israel

Why do some of the most illiberal people on earth manage to pass themselves off as liberal?


58 posted on 01/03/2019 3:50:31 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: DFG

Change the name to Pho Sho.

Ought to go well in the hood.


59 posted on 01/03/2019 3:53:02 PM PST by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: billorites

I guess Won Hung Lo is also tabu.


60 posted on 01/03/2019 3:57:11 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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