You know what was a real name for a business? General Electric - ThreadSky

zamboni-apocalypse.bsky.social•56 days ago

What do you guys do?

"Generally Electric"

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minndb.bsky.social•56 days ago

The GOAT is Nabisco (NAtional BIscuit COmpany)

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dawnddurante.bsky.social•56 days ago

I watched a documentary about men in the past who had more money than the entire US. I can’t remember which guy it was, but he developed a huge electric company. He said, “for now we’ll just call it General Electric.”

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eelaware.bsky.social•56 days ago

Sir, this is Hulufubovenudisney erasure

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wanderingincode.bsky.social•56 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF1l-49K4As

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thewesterhazys.bsky.social•56 days ago

Not since they got bought by Kabletown or Shenhart wigs - can’t remember which.

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ericgarment.bsky.social•56 days ago

Kabletown purchased NBC, but I don't know if it was ever stated if they remained a subsidiary of Sheinhardt - I think not?

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thewesterhazys.bsky.social•56 days ago

Oh you are probably right. Apalling that I don’t have the chart memorized. I’ve let Jack down

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ericgarment.bsky.social•56 days ago

time for an unpaid internship at the ahp chanagi party meats corporation!

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okayfella.cool•56 days ago

Call me a retvrn guy but you're right, at least the old evil corporations had serious names

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mitchcrease.bsky.social•56 days ago

What is Fubo?

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succubelle.bsky.social•56 days ago

isn't that the sport that my band friends would play during?

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mehr.nz•56 days ago

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jdniemand.bsky.social•56 days ago

Poob has it for you

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ihavenodomain.bsky.social•55 days ago

Coming in 2026: Hubufuluuu.

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pork.bsky.social•56 days ago

Osaka Seafood Concern

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priceyeah.bsky.social•56 days ago

Westinghouse went hard too

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samoanattorney.bsky.social•56 days ago

Rockwell International for the trifecta

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operabrendaslp.bsky.social•56 days ago

IBM

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unaha-closp.bsky.social•56 days ago

oh yeah JeeEee

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zzypt.bsky.social•56 days ago

I grew up watching BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) using British Gas and British Telecom. If you suffered a nationalist overload you could watch ITV (Independent Television).

We were not very imaginative with names and had few to compete with.

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greybirdmuse.com•56 days ago

Don't forget the real unicorn: Nanu, Nanu. bah-dum-bah....tsss.

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brokeshealds.bsky.social•55 days ago

I feel like I'm living in an episode of Succession every day now

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darksidestraxus.bsky.social•56 days ago

“Honey, wake up! Skibidi Toilet for boomers just dropped!”

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mightyexploits.bsky.social•55 days ago

Lolol beautiful

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davidnelsonnm.bsky.social•56 days ago

Fubar is right there for a name too. Customer service will LOVE it - “Of course it doesn’t work right sir, we told you in the name it doesn’t.”

Fubar Basic
Fubar+
Fubar Especial
Fubar Bedonkadonk

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executivejeff.bsky.social•56 days ago

gonna be a lot of power and corporate consolidation the next couple years. I'd bet all the protections against monopolies will either disappear or there will be no enforcement

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mrthursday.bsky.social•56 days ago

We need to bring back 90s tech company names like Globatech and Netsoft.

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mrsdewinter.bsky.social•56 days ago

GE. We bring good things to living. We bring good things to life.

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detryckvondoom.bsky.social•56 days ago

Say sike right now.

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tftb.com•56 days ago

Fubo sounds like a good adult diaper brand.

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daninthebox.bsky.social•56 days ago

Please rebrand as
Fulu

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beanponderer.bsky.social•56 days ago

US Steel. Simple, does what it says.

Grongu. Insane, death of language, Pontypool apocalypse.

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statisticallybiased.oflittleconsequence.io•56 days ago

Acme Corporation. These guys had everything. Exploding tennis balls, anvils, TNT, jet engines, you name it, they had it.

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backlitkeyboard.bsky.social•55 days ago

It’s cable TV from the 90’s

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unawarewolf.bsky.social•56 days ago

New consolidated name: Caca.

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kdiannerule.bsky.social•56 days ago

Standard Oil

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jillrachelle.bsky.social•56 days ago

See also IMHO, LMAO, and FAFO.

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rlewistherapy.bsky.social•56 days ago

Avia’to

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cshannonpdx.bsky.social•56 days ago

And you know what? When General Electric, invested in and formed another company, they named it “Portland General Electric” and not like “GenEl+.”

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misterfungi.bsky.social•56 days ago

Bring back the days when your business was just your name. Edison, Ford, McDonald’s, Fleshlight, etc.

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notthecops.bsky.social•56 days ago

Cornelius Jebodiah Fleshlight, Founder & CEO 1891-1948

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tedcruzinusa.bsky.social•56 days ago

Please, that’s the Americanized spelling. Let’s honor Mr. Fleischlicht’s humble beginnings as an immigrant. A real rags to rags story.

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rainerschein.bsky.social•55 days ago

His last name was actually Taschenschlampe.

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incognitjoe.bsky.social•56 days ago

all of you are focused on his name and nobody is respecting his dedication to his craft

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notthecops.bsky.social•56 days ago

Well at least he died doing what he loved 🫡

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misterfungi.bsky.social•56 days ago

he planned to leave the business to his kids, but you know…

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homelessrobot.bsky.social•56 days ago

One of the problems with the Web. You end up loosing billions in your Flipgump stock when they get bought by titmech.

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whitneyscience.bsky.social•56 days ago

a haiku about
hulu merging with fubo
and dodging venu

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riposo.bsky.social•56 days ago

Sounds like something a peeble streamer on doop would say

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scotchytaggart.bsky.social•55 days ago

Platform shell game?

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scotian.bsky.social•56 days ago

it will be an agonizing few weeks in the Disney boardroom deciding whether to call the new service Fulu or Hubo

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bubbarbq.bsky.social•56 days ago

The marketing department will spend the GDP of a small nation on focus groups and everybody will still call it Hulu

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anbock.bsky.social•55 days ago

Sure, just not a viable business structure.

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jeromenicolas.bsky.social•55 days ago

I'm actually a little disappointed. Surely there's a company out there named Emu that could’ve gotten involved somehow. It’s a missed opportunity.

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dani-sin-danger.bsky.social•56 days ago

RETVRN

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jimbosaur.bsky.social•56 days ago

General Electric, General Motors, General Mills, when will we retvrn to our General roots?

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mmontour.bsky.social•56 days ago

No love for General Atomics?

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onemobius.bsky.social•55 days ago

Standard Oil, United Fruit Company…

Awful businesses but sensical names

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lvrking-lingvist.bsky.social•56 days ago

yes but only if you parse it like General Grievous

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nightowlgmng.com•56 days ago

You could buy a whole lineup of General Electric goods at department stores like Sears, Robuck & co, which we called “sears” in those days. On account of the times. “Buy a millennium proof gateway pc!” They crooned from the electronics isle.

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mrcott.bsky.social•56 days ago

Ahh, the Sears Crooners. You could always tell when the Super Nintendo would get a new game, they'd all be hitting a high E

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nightowlgmng.com•56 days ago

You see, salesmen worked on commission in those days, which required you were up to date on all the newest Nintendo news. The “Hank Hill” guarantee is what they called it west of the Mississippi. Course nobody went to Mississippi past Labor Day on account of the beet festival. Ahhh beets.

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theodora30.bsky.social•55 days ago

And then the man the media idolized as a business genius, Jack Welsh, destroyed the company just like Chainsaw Al Dunlop destroyed Sunbeam and Ayn Rand true believer Ed Lampert destroyed Sears.

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uglythehuman.bsky.social•56 days ago

FTC Approves Merger of Pipi and Pupu

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kgardner.bsky.social•56 days ago

The conglomerate will be known as Dudu

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catsculptor.bsky.social•55 days ago

They were better at being evil back then too.
Standard Coal has poisoned the groundwater and left an entire region in ruin.
vs
Deepy has merged with Hoopoo and removed every 3rd James Bond film from the internet.

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jbiscuite.bsky.social•56 days ago

Standard Oil. And as a side note I recently learned that Esso is S O (es=s) S for Standard and O for oil.

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cooperlund.online•56 days ago

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granitejet.bsky.social•56 days ago

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kevincarson1.bsky.social•55 days ago

This shit all started with Standard Oil of New Jersey => Esso => Exxon

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sknowsthatp.bsky.social•56 days ago

Let’s Remember Some Companies

Sears Roebuck & Co. sold houses through the mail that you could put together yourself

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catebridget.bsky.social•56 days ago

i’ve seen some old Sears catalogues that had build-you-own oil rigs

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retronymous.com•55 days ago

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

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completetravisty.bsky.social•56 days ago

Generals Electric, Motors, Mills, Atomics, Dynamics... back then you knew what a business stood for (pure, ruthless profit...and also maybe those things in their name. Now it's just the first part)

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