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dazzledbeans @lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 7 months ago

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guess the company

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dazzledbeans @lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 7 months ago
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    Yamaha started as an Organ and piano manufacturer.

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      Hence why their logo is 3 tuning forks.

      logo

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        BMW started off making aircraft engines over a hundred years ago when powered aircraft were first being developed … which is why their logo is a circle with four different coloured quarters, it’s the image of a spinning propeller

        Just don’t ask them what they were doing between 1933 and 1945

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          Nintendo started off making playing cards, that’s why their logo is a [Remainder of comment removed due to Cease and Desist]

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          This is a misconception. The chequered blue and white is part of a Bavarian flag, but due to some legal issues they had to straighten it.

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          Just don’t ask them what they were doing between 1933 and 1945

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            Silent movies with Chaplin?

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          I think it’s also a reference to the bavarian flag.

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            Yes … and because of that, for the longest time, because so many people repeated it, I thought the acronym stood for Bavarian Motor Works … its actually ‘Bayerische Motoren Werke’

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              Which is literally just German for Bavarian Motor Works.

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                German for Bavarian Motor Works

                God damit! … I was right all along … just in the wrong language!

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          The image of a propeller is from an ad they once ran, but the logo existed beforehand.

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          Business, ofc

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          Peugeot started off making pepper and salt grinders.

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        That’s awesome

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        Then they moved to motorcycle forks

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          Then they moved to motorcycle forks

          Maybe they can do Y-Wings next.

          Stay on target.

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        But also resemble a motor with three pistons.

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      The meme has it backwards … worker should be saying … ‘I guess we produce motorcycles now’

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        “I guess we are getting history backwards now”

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