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Fred & George Weasley ([personal profile] alt_gredforge) wrote2011-08-24 09:45 pm

So...

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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[personal profile] alt_lee 2011-08-25 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] alt_molly 2011-08-25 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
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!
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[personal profile] alt_neville 2011-08-25 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
A joke shop? Really?

Why start your own business, though, if you could work at Zonko's?
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[personal profile] alt_ron 2011-08-25 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. It's a bit twisty to say it. Too many LYs, yeah?

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

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[personal profile] alt_percy 2011-08-25 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I for one think it's a rather silly idea.
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[personal profile] alt_percy 2011-08-25 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
I suppose it's harmless. Which is more than you can say for some of your schemes.
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[personal profile] alt_molly 2011-08-25 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
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!
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[personal profile] alt_ron 2011-08-25 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
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?
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[personal profile] alt_ron 2011-08-25 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] alt_sally_anne 2011-08-25 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] alt_justin 2011-08-25 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] alt_sally_anne 2011-08-25 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
If Percy's opposed, I'm all for it. Good luck!
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[personal profile] alt_terry 2011-08-25 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
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?
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[personal profile] alt_justin 2011-08-25 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
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?
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[personal profile] alt_terry 2011-08-25 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, that's actually rather good. Or Weasleys' Wondrous...something. If I could think of something else with a 'W.'
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[personal profile] alt_lee 2011-08-25 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think that 'wit' is going to be much involved, knowing Gred and Forge. Something much more low brow.
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[personal profile] alt_lee 2011-08-25 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a compliment. I like low brow.
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[personal profile] alt_terry 2011-08-25 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll try to think of something.
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[personal profile] alt_justin 2011-08-25 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] alt_ginny 2011-08-25 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] alt_bill 2011-08-25 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
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!
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[personal profile] alt_bill 2011-08-25 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Or 'Weasley Wizardly Wheezes?'
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[personal profile] alt_neville 2011-08-25 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Or 'Wizarding.'

I like it.
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[personal profile] alt_arthur 2011-08-25 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I agree. I've always seen you two as more the entrepreneurial type.
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[personal profile] alt_molly 2011-08-25 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Arthur! Surely you're not encouraging them!?
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[personal profile] alt_arthur 2011-08-25 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Why not, Molly? Surely you must agree with Bill, that they're probably not suited to a desk job.
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[personal profile] alt_percy 2011-08-25 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Within a week.
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[personal profile] alt_lee 2011-08-25 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, if they ever caught who had actually put the dung bomb in the public toilets, more like within a day.