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lol, I heard that term one time many years ago. About 18 years ago I was with a buddy and he was buying a vintage slingshot dragster off of an old man. I had commented that I would hate to see that rear end blow with the pumpkin sitting right between your legs. He said to climb in and straddle that meatball and imagine it coming apart. He said they called it that because it would turn you to a meatball if it blew apart. He added that he never seen one come apart to the point of parts penetrating the housing. I just always thought it was something he made up on the spot, Maybe not.
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From: The Hudson Valley
Okay. Total derail here.
WTF is with the AT&T logo?
Star Wars came out in what, 1977? And At&T started using that logo seven years later, in 1984, after the phone company was broken up, right?
So there's no doubt about which one came first.
And, since Star Wars was already a gajillion-selling blockbuster trilogy by 1984, there can be no doubt that every designer and executive involved in creating that logo had seen it, right?
So why on earth would a giant multinational corporation, with a reputation for crushing anything that stood in its path, choose as its logo the ultimate weapon of a fictional galaxy-wide totalitarian government?
I mean, was it just "because we can do anything we want, and you'll have to look at it over and over again for decades"?
Did they somehow not see it?
Did they think that people would see it as an emblem of power and stand in awe of it?
My personal guess, this having been the eighties, is that every single person involved was rampantly high on cocaine, and just thought that the death star was the coolest thing.
Any other ideas on this?
- Eric
WTF is with the AT&T logo?
Star Wars came out in what, 1977? And At&T started using that logo seven years later, in 1984, after the phone company was broken up, right?
So there's no doubt about which one came first.
And, since Star Wars was already a gajillion-selling blockbuster trilogy by 1984, there can be no doubt that every designer and executive involved in creating that logo had seen it, right?
So why on earth would a giant multinational corporation, with a reputation for crushing anything that stood in its path, choose as its logo the ultimate weapon of a fictional galaxy-wide totalitarian government?
I mean, was it just "because we can do anything we want, and you'll have to look at it over and over again for decades"?
Did they somehow not see it?
Did they think that people would see it as an emblem of power and stand in awe of it?
My personal guess, this having been the eighties, is that every single person involved was rampantly high on cocaine, and just thought that the death star was the coolest thing.
Any other ideas on this?
- Eric
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The AT&T logo is a stylized Earth with the sun shining on it. Nothing about the Death Star. I concur with the Japanese meatball, as I've made the comment at my place of employ that "as long as the Japanese meatball flies over this company, they get to make this choice." (It doesn't actually fly over any US plants, but you get the idea.)
I use rear end for slang, and differential for being professional. Diff to abbreviate.
I use rear end for slang, and differential for being professional. Diff to abbreviate.
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