{"id":2235,"date":"2010-11-02T21:49:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T01:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davesdailyquotes.com\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2011-01-27T20:38:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T01:38:17","slug":"market-mergers-that-make-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davesdailyquotes.com\/?p=2235","title":{"rendered":"Market Mergers that Make Sense&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each of these possible mergers could bless our language, if not our economy:<\/p>\n<p>If Crabtree &amp; Evelyn merged with Apple Computer, they could become Crab Apple.<\/p>\n<p>If the three companies Denison Mines, \u00a0Alliance, and Metal Mining merged, they would become Mine, All Mine<\/p>\n<p>How about Fairchild Electronics with Honeywell Computer: \u00a0Fairwell Honeychild?<\/p>\n<p>And FedEx with UPS yields FedUP!<\/p>\n<p>Grey Poupon with Docker Pants gives us Poupon Pants.<\/p>\n<p>Hale Business Systems, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Fuller Brush, and W. R. Grace could combine to become Hale Mary Fuller Grace.<\/p>\n<p>Honeywell, Imasco, and Home Oil meger would get Honey, I&#8217;m Home<\/p>\n<p>John Deere with Abitibi-Price becomes Deere Abi.<\/p>\n<p>Knott&#8217;s Berry Farm with National Organization of Women becomes (ready?) Knott NOW.<\/p>\n<p>Polygraph Records, Warner Brothers, and Zesta Crackers become Poly-Warner-Cracker<\/p>\n<p>And the combination of Swissair with Cheseborough-Ponds would yield Swisscheese<\/p>\n<p>3M with Goodyear = mmmGood<\/p>\n<p>3M, JC Penney, and Canadian Opera Company gets \u00a0you a 3 Penney Opera<\/p>\n<p>Victoria&#8217;s Secret with Smith &amp; Wesson (gotta love this!) Titty Titty Bang Bang<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo with Netscape equals Net&#8217;n&#8217;Yahoo<\/p>\n<p>Zippo Manufacturing, Audi Motors, Dofasco, and Dakota Mining could combine to become Zip Audi Do Da (work on it a little).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each of these possible mergers could bless our language, if not our economy: If Crabtree &amp; Evelyn merged with Apple Computer, they could become Crab Apple. If the three companies Denison Mines, \u00a0Alliance, and Metal Mining merged, they would become Mine, All Mine How about Fairchild Electronics with Honeywell Computer: \u00a0Fairwell Honeychild? And FedEx with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesdailyquotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesdailyquotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesdailyquotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesdailyquotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesdailyquotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/davesdailyquotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8193,"href":"https:\/\/davesdailyquotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions\/8193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesdailyquotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesdailyquotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesdailyquotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}