DailyComic@sh.itjust.worksB to Calvin and Hobbes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days ago27 October 1988sh.itjust.worksexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up1125arrow-down10
arrow-up1125arrow-down1external-link27 October 1988sh.itjust.worksDailyComic@sh.itjust.worksB to Calvin and Hobbes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square7fedilink
minus-squarezabadoh@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·8 days 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-up2·7 days 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.