alt_gredforge

We're trying to come up with a name for our business. We've decided we want to do some research and development to investigate opening up something like a joke shop. Like Zonko's, maybe, only better, with a constantly renewing product line. So we need a name that suggests fun. Innovation. And excitement. And, of course, features our family name prominently, because we think it deserves a bit of promotion.

How about 'Weasley Wizardly Whizbangs' ?

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From:

alt_lee

Hey, you're going to do it? That'll be wicked! If anyone can do it, it's you two.

The name's a near miss though, I think. Keep trying.

From:

alt_ron

Yeah. It's a bit twisty to say it. Too many LYs, yeah?

You'll take some off the price for family, right?

From:

alt_gredforge

Why should we? You'll be getting a sneak peek at the product anyway!

From:

alt_ron

Well, if you sell stuff to me and I use it and people see and decide they want some, too, then that's a good reason to let me have the stuff cheap. Or free, even, yeah?

From:

alt_gredforge

We'll happily take suggestions.

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alt_molly

Oh, for goodness sake!

After the appalling performance you two had on your O.W.L.s, you should be worrying about pulling your marks up! Not wasting your time with silly pranks and tricks!

And I don't want any more explosions coming from your bedrooms!

From:

alt_gredforge

Well, we don't plan to make a habit of it. Explosions, we mean.

From:

alt_neville

A joke shop? Really?

Why start your own business, though, if you could work at Zonko's?

From:

alt_gredforge

But we want our own business. If you work for somebody else, all you get is a wage. But if it's your own company, you get to rake the galleons in if your idea takes off. And we think it will.

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alt_percy

Well, I for one think it's a rather silly idea.

From:

alt_gredforge

You would.

From:

alt_percy

I suppose it's harmless. Which is more than you can say for some of your schemes.

From:

alt_molly

You wouldn't say that if you'd seen what the inside of my cooking pots looked like after they'd hauled them up to their room and experimented for about five hours!

From:

alt_ron

Mind you, she'd be all for it, if you were experimenting and blowing stuff up trying to make really great cleaning products. Or degnoming spray.

From:

alt_sally_anne

That's an excellent point. You should tell her it's degnoming spray from now on. It's just that you're degnoming the garden by blowing it up.

From:

alt_sally_anne

If Percy's opposed, I'm all for it. Good luck!

From:

alt_justin

Hullo, I'm Justin Finch-Fletchley.

Are you certain you really want your business name to alliterate? Only, I can tell you, sometimes having a tongue-twister for a name can be a bit of, well, a spot of a bother, do you see.

From:

alt_gredforge

But memorable!

We'll happily take suggestions.

From:

alt_justin

Well, I think if you're selling things that are funny, joke products, and such, that what you're really selling is a sense of humour, what?

So. I'd think about words that mean laughter or gaiety but that start with a W, if you're bent on using all Ws, that is.

Weasley's Witty Wonders, or something like that, perhaps?

From:

alt_gredforge

Thanks for the suggestion. We'll keep trying. We're not sure we've hit it yet.

Do you have joke shops in France? What are they called?

From:

alt_lee

I don't think that 'wit' is going to be much involved, knowing Gred and Forge. Something much more low brow.

From:

alt_gredforge

Oh, thanks a lot!

From:

alt_lee

It's a compliment. I like low brow.

From:

alt_gredforge

Well okay then. Good thing you're friends with us.

From:

alt_justin

We have some, yes. They're called magasins des farces but they're mostly filled with things that only half work. Some corking crackers, though. And old bits of ~~plastic~~ rubbish. My Mother doesn't generally let me go in them, but I went with a tutor once or twice and we lit off a few firecrackers in the back garden.

From:

alt_gredforge

Oh, we love firecrackers. Rockets, Catherine wheels, all sorts of stuff. That will definitely be part of our inventory.

From:

alt_terry

You know, that's actually rather good. Or Weasleys' Wondrous...something. If I could think of something else with a 'W.'

From:

alt_terry

Your own company? That'd be brilliant!

Thing is, if you call it 'Weasley Wizardly Whizbangs' would people think it's more of a fireworks company?

From:

alt_gredforge

Huh. That's quite a good point, Professor. Maybe Lee's right, we haven't quite hit on exactly the right name yet. Any ideas?

From:

alt_terry

I'll try to think of something.

From:

alt_ginny

Hey you two. Maybe you should stop. Weasley Wizards make me wheeze. I could hardly breath after your last explosion. But I guess thats what you do best. Even when you are funny I can hardly breath.

Edited Date: 2011-08-25 03:57 pm (UTC)

From:

alt_gredforge

Gin! We could kiss you!

Weasley Wondrous Wheezes! Because 'wheeze' is an old word for joke, isn't it?

From:

alt_bill

Or 'Weasley Wizardly Wheezes?'

From:

alt_neville

Or 'Wizarding.'

I like it.

From:

alt_bill

I think it's quite a brilliant idea, actually. I never really saw you two as being happy at a Ministry desk-type job. And it would certainly play to your strengths!