DailyComic@sh.itjust.worksB to Calvin and Hobbes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago27 October 1988sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up1126arrow-down11
arrow-up1125arrow-down1image27 October 1988sh.itjust.worksDailyComic@sh.itjust.worksB to Calvin and Hobbes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square7linkfedilink
minus-squarezabadoh@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months ago“Acme” is a strange choice of word. It does mean “highest point” “summit” or “peak of something” but in cartoons, it’s more famous as the company that sells the shoddy, unsafe products to Wile E. Coyote.
minus-squaretuck182@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoIt means the same thing as the name of that company, too. It’s marketing.
“Acme” is a strange choice of word.
It does mean “highest point” “summit” or “peak of something” but in cartoons, it’s more famous as the company that sells the shoddy, unsafe products to Wile E. Coyote.
It means the same thing as the name of that company, too. It’s marketing.