Feeling a bit muggy, so I'm going to have to keep it light today. Instead of anything techy I'm going to poke fun at a local business.

Round the corner from us there's a beauty parlour. Every time I pass it makes me laugh to myself. The shop's called mitchellsbeauty.com. What's so funny? I don't really know. I just think it's an odd name for what's obviously a very local business and the only shop in a very short chain. Whoever opened it must have done so about the time of the dotcom explosion. It was cool to call yourself lastminute.com or whatever. That is of course if you're a web business with a truly global reach. A beauty salon in a suburb of Nottingham though? Me thinks not.

I'd always wondered if there was a website at mitchellsbeauty.com, so I took a look the other day and found there was. Not only do they have a website but their preferred address is mitchellsinternational.com. International? I can only imagine they're normally out of the country at the Milan Fashion Show or they have clients jetting in from Beverley Hills to get their nails done.

What really made me laugh about the website though was the background sound, which reminded me of the Sonic Marketing post from last August. For those without IE and a soundcard, this might give you an idea what you're missing:

<bgsound src="scissor.mp3" loop="infinite">

It's great. You can almost imagine you're there in the salon waiting to get your Brazillian done. See how long you can leave that site open in the background before it drives you bonkers.

Disclaimer: As another small business owner I know I shouldn't poke fun at their ambitions. I just couldn't help it and hope they see it as harmless fun. If they're related to The Mitchell Brothers I'm in big trouble.