The Phoney Company Name By: A.D. Nicholas Bundt Everyone knows that a character needs a job in order to have purchased the items you've said they own. Everyone also knows that sometimes the right company name is hard to come by, at least when having them work for a company that does not really exist. However, we've come up with a very helpful guide to allow one to create "real" company names. All it takes is a dictionary or thesaurus! First, start with the kind of company one is going to work for. Depending on character and job status, choose the most suitable job for one to work for. (or in case of a comedy, the most impratical. Think deaf complaint consultant or chocoholic in Charlie's factory) Once one has the type of job, think of a real company with the same desciption. Let's take Bob. Bob works in a huge software programming company because he loves computers. Real companies that descibe that job would be simple to think of. Companies like Apple and Microsoft. Now we have Bob working for Apple. Now we need a fake company name. Thus, one consults the guidelines to generating a fake company. 1. Take the company name. 2. Disect the company's name by single words. Apple being one word. Microsoft being two words, Micro and soft. Cub Foods being two words as well. 3. Then, analyze one word. 4. If the word is a noun, replace the noun with a synonyum. 5. If the word is an adjective, replace the adjective with a antouym. 6. If the word is a name, just add a prefix like Mc, Sir, or Baron. 7. Repeat steps 3 though 7 until you run out of words. And thus, you'll have a company name that is suspiously (and hilariously) like the name of a real company. Personal favorites for company names include: Apple = Mango Microsoft = Macrosolid Cub Foods = Fawn Vittles Best Buy = Worst Purchase The list is basically endless. Remember, the names that the companies they themselves have come up with are just as ridiculous in retrospect than the names you've created. It's just that people are used to them. <Back> Report a broken link / image to the webmaster. Last Updated: June 2, 2006

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