Share the fictitious name of your ideal company, one that reveals your preferred product. (e.g., Temps Promised Perm Employment Agency; What's-a-Lemon Auto Dealers, etc.)

Darker Black Clothing Co.

WeClaim ToPlease Insurance Co.

I'm not sure I understand. I don't want to launch a sleazy company. I do laugh at a lot of truth in advertising I find though.
A recent car ad reads "More status - less quo".
I read a review on the back of a Monkees album which went "Now that their last album is on the top-ten it's hard to be objective".
My own company name is 'Conceptual Design Synthesis' and it seems to pertain to years of evolution in what I do.

Wilkes/Emichron Corporation. Long story.

Cowboy Builders

Lahdee's Stop-to-Slop Ice Cream Parlour

The Indestructible Vibrator Company.

Stage Fright Theater

"Betty's Bra Bar, We Fix Flats!"
My Mom used to answer the phone like that to make me laugh, it always worked too

Bullseye Osama Firearms, Unlimited

Wow, let me think I must be creative.How about...Not Everybody Can Wear-a-Thong Panty Shop! Bunions and Corns R Us Foot Repair!Adams Mortuary "You Stab 'em We Grab 'em! Okay I'm done for now. ;-0

Here's one that could be specific to you, Actress...WayAbove-the-Line Talent Trailers, Ltd.

I like that.

Deeper Blue Design

No

The Mattress Duchess

I want my IRS auditor to be outscourced by the "Bring-a DepositSlip Accounting Firm".
If there were a rap band I had to listen to, I'd would hope they were called "Silent Talent".
If I'm in financial straits, I would want my Saturday morning phone calls to come from the "SosoSub Missive Collection Agency".
And I want to send the kids I have someday to be taught by teachers from the "Am-smarter Thanyour Child School"
How about Supervisor Management Course that's inconspicuously hosted by the instructors from "Boss's Boot Camp, Inc"?

I want my IRS auditor to be out-scourced by the "Bring-a DepositSlip Accounting Firm".
If there were a rap band I had to listen to, I'd would hope they were called "Silent Talent".
If I'm in financial straits, I would want my Saturday morning phone calls to come from the "SosoSub Missive Collection Agency".
And I want to send the kids I have someday to be taught by teachers from the "Am-smarter Thanyour Child School"
How about Supervisor Management Course that's inconspicuously hosted by the instructors from "Boss's Boot Camp, Inc"?

...how did i send that twice?...

Did you submit it, notice a typo, and hit the back button to edit it, instead of the edit button?

I must have...I'm surprised at the lack of participation of this one, I have to say. The people around here seem so imaginative, I thought they'd eat this one right up!
Oh well, onto the next I guess.

Well it feels too specific and narrowed by the details. Revealing the preferred product is fun, but if you could just name any company or product freely, it might have got more responses. Maybe everyone is busy thinking of something good.

I want to open a science store, but I have no idea what to call it. "SciPhile" is catchy, but not too original. Maybe "Thinkin' Things"?

Hey, I LIKE the "Thinkin' Things".

Thanks. Another name I thought of is "Noggin Shop" but I like "Thinkin' Things" better

Thinkin' Things is the name of a CD-ROM game that my kids have.

Jem. It's a clothing company.

OK. I'll have to come up with more names and try to pick from a list or something.

you corrected out-sourced

Don't know where the heck that extra "c" always comes from. It must be from "scorcery" or something. (No, just found out it's not in that word either. Hm.)
Maybe I need "Audible Adjustible Spell-Checker" installed on my computer so it will yell at me if I'm ready to leave with my mistakes, haha.

What like those messages that pop up saying - "Are you sure you want to do this?". Like hello computer I do appreciate you and everything but please give me some credit. Just remember computer - I'm not the one performing illegal operations. Think on that before you start questioning my behaviour.

Well, that was sort of my humble way of trying to continue my little game here, which by the way petered out pretty quickly. I'm kind of disappointed by the results here.
I thought a million funny names would be flying around here. Like: A gay singles' club: the "Pink Triangle Squares"
Or: A reformed bicycle gang: "Heck's Angels"
I think joalis is right. I narrowed it too much to asking for a company name. Those two I just gave weren't really companies themselves.
*sigh*

Annoyingly some of my best surveys (in my mind) have fallen flat. Some of the ones that turned out good surprised me as it was a regular survey.

Go create a crap survey and watch it fly!

True enough. When people click on my name in forum, I wish it pointed to a list of surveys I feel define what I'm trying to contribute here, not the ones I'm nearly ashamed of which ended up being more popular.

Interesting. I think, after a while here, I'll export the data from the advance stats to all the surveys I've created. Then, I can dump them into a database, add some "expectancy variants" to them, then have the db compare and chart things like...what I want from a survey against what results from them.
There should be some sort of happy medium there, wouldn't you think - a middleground that promises the best results?

I wonder why that is. It's not the participants of the site. Most of them seem pretty smart and "with it".
Or. Here's a thought:
Maybe I can drop the idea altogether, get some sleep after a long night/day, and worry about real things, like the drip in my kitchen sink...

What, are you trying to prove murphy's law?

Yeah, staying up till 3:00am doesn't help. I was just starting work the other day and you replied to one of my messages. I thought - bloody hell what's he doing up at this hour?

Also I think people can see if someones trying to be clever and choose not to play along. Enter with innocence and you become the Underdog. Yeah- go underdog! (originality sometimes is looked highly on) I need to go check my most popular survey. Stay tuned.

Okay - so far my best survey seems to be 'Have you bought anything from a second hand shop. But that's fairly recent so I imagine it will go down as more people answer it. On Best Active it appears way down in the list with surveys like 'Smell you fingers' doing way better. Go figure!

I cracked up the first time I saw that "Smell your fingers" (and then sometimes each time I saw it). I haven't gone into that one. Something is amiss in the header design I've got here. It's not very practical, I'm pretty sure.
Either that, or I don't go into the more broad areas, like "This Month's Active" or whatever. Jeez, so much to do, so many important answers to give all these people wanting to KNOW! I can't TAKE it anymore!
(...hey, dino...it's 3:02am...I TOLD you I only cat-nap! I enjoy the delirium...)

I put a watering can under the faucet drip. Two birds with one stone.

A group of computer geeks who always get picked on, and want to do something about it: "The Fatal Exceptions"

In partnership with "Crash-AND-Burn Computers"

The Fatal Exceptions are a group of kids in a story I'm writing. I like your idea too

Did you say you write children's books?

I write all kinds of stuff. Never published anything though.

I'm a bit of a writer myself. I always say, "...more at heart than on paper". Ever intend to publish? I'm figuring when I'm around 50. When I've collected enough data to write about life the way I want.
"Kinciety" - kin si ' et ee, the title, is about all I have specifically worked up for it, haha. Look for it on the shelves around 2025!

I have a whole bunch of stories I'm working on. I'm with you on that "more at heart than on paper" thing. Some of my characters don't even have homes (stories) yet. The same thing goes for some scenarios. I'm always dreaming up these scenarios and never put them in anything.

I'm sorry, this is beyond my imaginative capabilities.It is giving me a headache to even try

Home Protection Inc. Is offering for a limited time the handiest, dandiest little wonder of home security the world has ever known. Tired of keeping a baseball bat under your bed. Are creaks in the night keeping your wife awake. Tired of looking into your kids closets to calm them down? Well brother, have I got the thing for you. LANDMINES!!! Yes folks, landmines. What better a way to say "This LAND is MINE.", than with a LANDMINE!. Hurry and buy them now while supplies last.

I think you're one of the very few who understood what the survey was supposed to get people to do. In fact, I read most of your post (above) and thought you hadn't caught on to the idea either until you elaborated with, "Land is Mine". I like it!

Sarcasm is one of the hardest things to convey online. I love this place!

Dewey, Cheatum & Howe (lawyer or insurance company)

I would like to buy a car from a place called "A lot for nothing car lot"

Fudge The Corporate World Bi-otch! Productions.

I'd put out nothing but Indie films, albums, books, and comics!

Pick-your-nose rhinoplasty

Just Desserts, the premier dessert shop/cafe.

Horrorland

No joke. I think it would be cool to have a theme park just the opposite of Disney. One with haunted houses, spooky rides, whatever.

OMIGOD!
I have a friend and we had the idea to create a theme park based solely on sex and pornography. Sex exhibits and shows. Rides that you...*ahem* really RIDE.....you know...fudging machines....

I was thinking it would be so cool to have a Disneyland type theme park with male and female prostitutes on Main Street...BDSM shops/events... XXX theatres with movies and Live Sex Acts...phone sex booths.....Characters from famous XXX movies strolling about....deSade's prison cell where young women are....dragged in and well, you know....a bar with cheap booze in each "section" of the park...a nude beach...a petting zoo
I'd call it
PORNOLAND!!!!!
...and it would make me RICH beyond my wildest dreams!!!!!
*evil laughter*

The idea...has it ever been done? It's really not a bad idea! I think the patronage would be consistent, for sure!

We were trying to think of ways to break into the sex industry. We were trying to come up with an original idea...something that hasn't already been done. I wonder what the legalities would be of this sort of place.

I mean, anyone can open a club or make movies.

Or simply visit a gay sex club in L.A. A friend of mine goes to this place called "The Zone", which is - by his description - nothing but a sex club. It's dark, dingy and full of sex. It sounds a little seedy to me.
My SO and I once visited a sex club, in San Fransisco. I lasted all of two minutes, for the smell. In fact, I almost got sick, sitting on the curb as we waited our other friend to come out.
Your outdoorsy, light-hearted festival sexual environment is a lot more appealing, I think.

Seems to me sex has penetrated every venue already. How abaut a theme park where you can swim nude with porpoises or take rides through the haunted cat house. I haven't been to vegas yet. I fear these things may already exist. I recall being somewhat shocked at one art reception where at the end, everyone threw their car keys into a box to see who they went home with. Back in the 70's, there wasn't anything that didn't have a nude equivalent, especially all the sports. There would be a market for nude viewmaster reels though. The only ones in circulation are ancient faded stock from yugoslavia.
Gay mail-order brides? How about new products. Those I could come up with. combination vibrator television remotes, food products wrapped in condoms, oh heres one, a condom like sheath sensitive to pressure and speed of areas which operates a synthesizer AND light organ. I think I'll have to leave this department up to you. Oh, I do know one market in vast decline, erotic lingerie. There seems to be nothing representing the gap between Fredericks/Victorias Secret and kinky/bondage sex shops. Nothing at Victorias has fastening loops built in.

We're back, and tiiiiired. I had only a couple of glasses of wine and I'm riddled with a headache already. (I don't know why I ever drink wine, knowing it's hell to pay.) I'll check my email from you now, and try to respond. If you don't see one tonight, you'll spot it in the morning.
G'nite.

A beer/wine or two does that to me too. When I drink enough to stir up my passions I don't get the headache or tired though (but I drink a gallon of water before I sleep to prevent a hangover).

Baby, book me for a couple weeks. Sounds like my kind of place.

Can you imagine those "ladies" who shop at the Mall going into Victoria's and asking for bondage wear straps and attachments and rings for their teddys? The gurls at the Victoria's Secret here...didn't even know what Penoir Set was when a customer asked if they had any....

Mine too!

Well, actually I don't either. Noir means black. I suspect that it has little to do with Pinot Noir glasses though.