Uncommonly Appropriate Partnerships
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Uncommonly Appropriate Partnerships
We are about to link a new page with uncommonly appropriate business partnerships, like our old Cook, Book, and Hyde Accountants. There are many, many more we just haven't thought up. Suggestions, as always, are encouraged.
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I found another company reference, dating from 1964, at Wikipedia today in the entry on Blivet:
Yes, yes, I know a blivet, or blibbet, is 10 pounds of , uh, "stuff" in a 5 pound bag, but this device was also referenced in the article, and I chose it for the mythical engineering firm.Paradoxical graphic figure
In yet another usage, illustrated above, the blivet is an undecipherable figure. It appeared on the March 1965 cover of Mad magazine, where it was dubbed the poiuyt (the last six letters on the top row of the typewriter keyboard, right to left), and has appeared numerous times since then. An anonymously-contributed version described as a hole location gauge was printed in the June 1964 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, with the comment that "this outrageous piece of draftsmanship evidently escaped from the Finagle & Diddle Engineering Works".
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"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
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... and sometimes a cigar is just a cigar ...
Regards//Larry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
Along the lines of partnership names: Leaven and Earth bakery
Along the lines of This Is Not A Pipe: Marcel Duchamp's version of Mona Lisa
Along the lines of This Is Not A Pipe: Marcel Duchamp's version of Mona Lisa
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So of course Wikipedia has a page on Dewey, Cheatham & Howe. They include a variation: Howe, Dewey, Cheatem and Wynn.
Also, from the Wikipedia List of Fictional Law Firms:
In a set of legal forms published for lawyers and other legal professionals, one fictitiious law-firm name is "Skrewer, Widow & Children."
Also, from the Wikipedia List of Fictional Law Firms:
There is also a complete list of CarTalk gag credits.Hackey, Joake & Dunnit from The Simpsons
Luvem and Burnem Family Law - from The Simpsons
Sebben & Sebben from Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel, radio vehicle for the Marx Brothers in the 1930s
Roper, Bender & Raper from Frank Zappa's Thing-Fish
Sue, Grabbit & Runne, featured regularly in Private Eye magazine
Regards//Larry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
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Keep 'em coming
Thanks for the donations. Some of these are great and I'll add them next week.
Dewey, Cheatham & Howe goes back at least a century in Jolly Old.
Dewey, Cheatham & Howe goes back at least a century in Jolly Old.
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Dunn & Dunn Collection Agency
Seen in the movied "Second Chorus" with Fred Astaire, Paulltte Goddard, Burgess Meredith, and Artie Shaw and his band.
Regards//Larry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
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