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If you owned a shop* that sells this, what would you call it?

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Veliko

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You are an aspiring businessman (yes, a man. This is a tech forum and ladies don't like any of that nasty tech stuff that all the horrible smelly boys mess around with because they can't get a girlfriend) and, after doing your due-diligence**, you have seen a gap in the market for life-sized cardboard cutouts of Colonel Gaddaffi blowing a vuvuzela. The vuvuzela can be made in a variety of colours and can have either an elephant, a tiger or a pogo stick on the side of them.

What would you call your store? My suggestions:

Gaddafii and Co.
Vuvu a la Colonel
Blow a Gasket



* - PSA for Yanks. This is an English word for a 'store'. It is not me sending a signal to terrorists who are trying to steal your freedoms. Neckbeard put the gun down please.

** - PSA for me. I have only ever heard this being said in a couple of American films (one of them was The Dark Knight) so I may not have used it in the correct context
 
CZroe

CZroe

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Veliko said:
If you owned a shop* that sells this, what would you call it?

You are an aspiring businessman (yes, a man. This is a tech forum and ladies don't like any of that nasty tech stuff that all the horrible smelly boys mess around with because they can't get a girlfriend) and, after doing your due-diligence**, you have seen a gap in the market for life-sized cardboard cutouts of Colonel Gaddaffi blowing a vuvuzela. The vuvuzela can be made in a variety of colours and can have either an elephant, a tiger or a pogo stick on the side of them.

What would you call your store? My suggestions:

Gaddafii and Co.
Vuvu a la Colonel
Blow a Gasket



* - PSA for Yanks. This is an English word for a 'store'. It is not me sending a signal to terrorists who are trying to steal your freedoms. Neckbeard put the gun down please.

** - PSA for me. I have only ever heard this being said in a couple of American films (one of them was The Dark Knight) so I may not have used it in the correct context
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Uh... what yank doesn't know what "shop" means? Ever hear of "Little Shop of Horrors?" What about a "body shop," "corner shop," and "barber's shop?" Even "Photoshop" because it comes from "workshop" which is exactly where the other businesses got it from. "Shopping" is the act of perusing and making purchases at shops. Shop has lost it's meaning in the sense that most are just "retail shops" with supply chains and no actual "shop work" beyond retail support (POS, CS, stocking, etc), but the meaning it retains is EXACTLY what you used it for.

"Shop" is universally understood in the English language, so why call out Yanks?
 
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