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

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dazzledbeans @lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 7 months ago
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  • cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Toyota made looms once.

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      Nintendo was founded in 1889 and originally made a type of playing card

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        You could write a story about a samurai and cowboy playing with Nintendo cards and drinking Coke and it would be historically accurate.

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        Don’t forget the yakuza money laundry made by Nintendo

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          If you dig back enough, literally every Japanese corpo roots go to some usury house or gambling den in Edo period. Or worse, to aristocratic family. Or both.

    • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.world
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      Far as I know, they still make sewing machines; they just don’t sell them in the States.

      Lamborghini started out making tractors.

      My parents had a Mitsubishi television about 15 years ago.

      Coleco started life as the Connecticut Leather Company.

      And it’ll never fail to amuse me how Michelin tells you where to find the best restaurants on the planet.

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        Lamborghini started out making tractors

        They still do.

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        Michelin tells you where the best restaurants are so you can drive to them on their tires ;)

        Guinness started the world record book to settle bar bets.

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      From looms to wrooms, why not!

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      And I think Singer made cars.

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