There has long been a rumor that W. R. Grace Co. was going to buy the
Fuller Brush Co. and Mary Kay Cosmetics and then merge with the Hale Business
Systems. This would result in the new mega-corporate entity known as
... "Hale Mary Fuller Grace."
Don't forget the failed
merger between Yahoo and Netscape.
... Net'n'yahoo.
...
It didn't work out because they were afraid they would have to
relocate the headquarters
... InTel Aviv.
A
great number of years ago there was a proposed merger between Fairchild
Electronics and Honeywell Computers. Rumor had it that the new company
would be called
... Fairwell Honeychild.
It was
announced that Wurlitzer is merging with Xerox. They are going to market
... reproductive organs.
There is a merger in the
works involving Polygraph Records, Warner Brothers, and Keebler. It will be
called
... Poly-Warner-Cracker.
And then there
are/would be:
3M & Goodyear
=
mmmGood
John Deere & Abitibi-Price
=
Deere Abi
Playboy & Toys R Us
= Boy
Toy
Crabtree & Evelyn and Apple computer
= Crab Apple
Zippo Manufacturing & Audi & Dofasco & Dakota Mining
= Zip Audi Do Da
Folger Coffee & Detroit
Edison & Rolex
= Folderal
Swissair &
Cheseborough-Ponds
= Swisschese
Honeywell
& Imasco & Home Oil
= Honey, I'm
Home
Denison Mines & Alliance & Metal Mining
= Mine, All Mine
3M &JC Penny & Canadian
Opera Company
= 3 Penny Opera
Mattel &
Pacific Gold
= Ma & Pa
Sears Roebuck &
Rogers Cable
= Buck Rogers
Cracker Jacks
+ Maxwell House
= Crackhouse
Luvs Diapers
+ Hertz Rent-a-car
=Luv Hertz
Grey Pupon
+ Dockers Pants
= Grey Pupon
Pants
Buttmaster + Sunkist
=
Buttkissed
Knott's Berry Farm + National Organization of Women
= Knott NOW
Upjohn + Chuckie Cheese Pizza
= UpChuck
White Castle Burgers + Glad
Trash Bags
= White Trash Bags
Uncle Ben's Rice
+ Ben Gay
= Uncle Ben's
Gay
*****************************
"`Stay' is a charming word
in
a friend's vocabulary."
- Louisa May
Alcott
*****************************
[Mother Shiptons Prophecy] [Poetry]
[Guest-Sign] [Guest-View] [Email]