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Are businesses named acme exclusively for old cartoons? I thought it was like a generic american business name. Like the foobar of American entrepreneurialship basically.

@kaho Seems like before Looney Tunes made it famous, generic "ACME" product branding on film props was a lowkey tradition from the silent era, kind of like nonfunctional "555" phone numbers on TV later on. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_Cor

@n1ckfg that was my understanding but I wasn’t sure. Like I didn’t think it was just road runner cartoons. As a kid one time I looked it up in the phone book and there were so many acme businesses! I chuckled but was also confused.

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