New Business Idea

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What's one of the biggest problems we're faced with on a daily basis? Well, if you saw movies like The Exorcist, The Blair Witch Project, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, or Paranormal Activity, you'll know exactly what I'm referring to: ghosts. They're not just in movies, either. 68% of Americans claim to have experienced at least one of the following signs of paranormal activity:
Strange noises in the middle of the night.
Feelings of dread in your basement or attic.
Actually seeing a spook, specter, or ghost.
If you have, then maybe we'll be able to help you. Our courteous and efficient staff will be on call 24 hours a day to serve all of your supernatural elimination needs.

We'll need a few things first: a place. There's an old, abandoned fire house nearby that I can rent or just flat-out buy. I can always take out a third mortgage on the house that my parents left me if need be.

We'll need some sort of apparatus of actually catching these things. My idea is to create a nuclear accelerator, using proton beams. It will essentially be a small rifle-like tool that's attached to a backpack-style nuclear device. Hold a button and a stream of protonic energy will hold the spirit until it can be dropped into some sort of trap. I need to design this as well.

We'll also need somewhere to store all of these spirits once we've caught them. Any ideas?

Now, some of you may not believe my idea here. Maybe you don't understand, or maybe you just plain don't believe in what I'm talking about. Well, you don't have to believe. Ghosts exist whether you believe in them or not. I've only been researching this for a few weeks, but these things are real. Since I've been looking into this, I've seen stuff that'll turn you white. But some still don't believe and that's okay. They'll be the first ones calling us for help. I know what I've experienced; you forget that I was present at an undersea, unexplained mass sponge migration. Before that, I was studying the effects of negative reinforcement on ESP ability. I know my stuff.

There are things that need to be done. The trapping system needs to be perfected, a method of holding these things for an extended period of time needs to be thought up, and more. We're going to need a way of getting all of this equipment around, as well as ourselves. Then we need people to actually operate this stuff without blowing things up.

I think it's a good idea. Anybody want in?
 
Everybody can relax; I found the car. It needs some suspension work and shocks. Brakes, brake pads, lining, steering box, transmission, rear-end. Only costed $4800. Also new rings, mufflers, a little wiring.
 
I'm not sure the fire house will work.
I think this building should be condemned. There's serious metal fatigue in all the load-bearing members, the wiring is substandard, it's completely inadequate for our power needs, and the neighborhood is like a demilitarized zone.
 
...Who ya gonna call?

Well, us when we're in business. Until then, I recommend consulting a reliable source such as Tobin's Spirit Guide.

We were lucky enough just to get the old fire house leased to use, for reasons above.
 
Especially not in New York City, you don't.

I'm not in New York City, but I have word that there are some serious NYC scientists there that are interested in our project. There's a psychologist / parapsychologist. We also have an engineer, who is helping a lot with the technical stuff. We also have a very knowledgeable physicist. We're still looking for a secretary, but everything is falling into place nicely. For security reasons (we don't have them signed with us or anything) their names can't be released at this time.
 
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Make sure they know not to cross the streams...it would be bad.
 
Make sure they know not to cross the streams...it would be bad.

What are you talking about? The proton streams? We haven't even developed the prototypes yet, but we're looking into every possible way to do it safely. I'm fuzzy on the whole bad thing; what do you mean "bad"?
 
We're still looking for a secretary. . .

Ah, staffing requirements? I can recommend one! Here's her pic:

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A Brooklyn native, single and used to work for a pet shop giving pedicures and therapy to poodles. She's open to paranormal stuff since she says she saw the ghost of her long dead aunt Mildred giving the finger to her uncle Julius when she was fifteen.

40 wpm typing speed with somewhat of a pleasing personality when she feels like it. Has no problems with reception/secretarial/research work and getting calls, but gets irritated when swamped with work and missing out on big sales. Likes to do her nails to pass the time and get her hair done every Thursday.

Just between you and me though, she's got a killer body underneath all that plain and sometimes obnoxious exterior and is a bit sexually frustrated with her past relationships.
 
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What ever you do, DO NOT think about a giant marshmallow man... (oops... too late).
 
Ah, staffing requirements? I can recommend one! Here's her pic:

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A Brooklyn native, single and used to work for a pet shop giving pedicures and therapy to poodles...

Why is everybody making references to New York?
"Especially not in New York City, you don't."
"A Brooklyn native..."
I'm confused; I'm located in Ohio, and everybody is acting like I'm in New York. I've got enough to deal with between the fire house needing repairs (we're getting there), the car needing a paint job and approved sirens, still needing a way of holding these spirits (I've designed a grid-like system that I'm calling the ECTO), and the proton beam accelerators still are in their prototype stages. And now you're telling me that our potential partners (that's why I started this thread, to see who would be on board) don't even know what state we're located in? :mad:

Also, she looks like the "Annie" lady that I saw in popcorn commercials in the late 1990s. I guess we could use a TV star as an employee, couldn't hurt, but I was hoping she'd have come across a better job than a secretary. We'll be in contact with her shortly. She's got bug eyes...
 
We've hired a secretary, Miss Janine Melnitz, the lady shown above. We're proud to have her on our staff and hope she'll be a valuable asset to our company.

I've also got the grid-like containment system worked out, and am having our engineer start the prototype. It's quite simple really. Load a trap into the door, open, unlock the system. Insert the trap, release, close, lock the system. Set your entry grid, neutralize your field and... the light is green, the trap is clean! The ghost is incarcerated here in our custom-made storage facility.

The traps are also in their prototype stage, but the proton accelerators are done and awaiting approval (kind of hard to test these things when we don't have a staff of paranormal eliminators yet).

Speaking of our company, we're looking for input on a name. Anything?
 
Lemme guess? It was a three-hour interview with liquor involved right? (you dog ;))

Specters-R-Us?

No?

The Spooky Stompers??

Wait, how 'bout The Phantasm Squashers??? :confused:
 
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The EPA says we can't proceed any further until they check things out. The proton accelerators are done, as are the traps and the prototype for the ECTO containment system, but the EPA says we can't do anything new until they OK it. This will give us time to get our business license and get the car painted up though, so that's good news. We also have a name picked out, but we're not releasing it until we've gotten it trademarked.

I'll ask again: is anybody here interested in partnering with us in this endeavor?
 
Geez it's so simple. ----- I just chase them over into my neighbors yard. ------so simple
 
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