Kumail Nanjiani learning what Automattic is: https://youtu.be/5Y64UeNeiOM?t=74
replyIt took me quite a while to "get" the "Arby's" restaurant name.
replySo on reading this comment I was like, "oh, I see, Arby's, like RB, roast beef?" Except on looking it up, that's not the explanation! "Arby's" does come from the initials "RB"... but it doesn't stand for "roast beef", it stands for "Raffel brothers"! Rather less obvious.
replyTangential, but I have no idea who is eating at Arby’s. The food looks positively vile from the advertisements.
replyIt used to be pretty good. Same as most fast food.
replyNo. It wasn’t ever good. Tried it in the early eighties. It was barely dog food back then too.
replyDo you not like your dogs or something? I wouldn't give Arby's to someone I hated.
replyThe food is pretty vile. Friends that worked their described the "beef" as being a weird loaf of pressurized mewt-like protein before its sliced.
replyI used to eat there occasionally because it was cheapish many, many years ago.
Did you know that Adidas was founded by Adolf "Adi" Dassler?
replyAnd Puma by his brother Rudi, in the same town. Great Feud story.
replyAnother brother/brother business rivalry, although not involving founders, was Sears and Montgomery Ward from 1985-1990. In 1985 Bernard Brennan become CEO of Montgomery Ward and in that same year his older brother Edward Brennan become CEO of Sears.
replyChicago-based Sears was the largest US retailer at the time, and Chicago-based Montgomery Ward was the 5th largest.
Similar thing with Aldi. Both brothers kept the name, sort of.
replyRudidas would definitely be a worse name. Though I'd be surprised if an Amazon Marketplace knockoff brand is not already using it.
replyAdolfler would've been even worse.
replyNot in today's climate.
replyIt was briefly "Ruda" before it morphed into "Puma".
replyI did not know that. Very good decision!
replyall day i diss another sibling
replyImagine how glad they were at some point that they didn’t go with “Adolf’s Sneakers”!
replyA fun fact about another well known company - Foxconn. Apparently the founder Terry Gou came up with this name by joining words "fox" and "conn". Fox is an animal he liked and "conn" refers to connectors (which is what the company specialized in in its early days).
replyNot really explaining autoMATTic. Amazon, "A" is because Jeff wanted it at the top of search. Fox, Dell, Walmart, Disney, all is closer to the example.
replyI was just thinking about the A thing the other day.
replyA1 Plumbing, Acme Brick, AAA Home Servicing all the companies named over the years to try and be the first in the phone book.
But phone books have been dead for a long time. And search results aren’t alphabetical. It would be interesting for someone to graph or somehow otherwise show how names have changed in response.
I have seen those occasional pictures of businesses named “(thing) near me” in an attempt to win at Google searches.
Same with Taco Bell
replyIf only Alexander hadn't wasted time on the phone!
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