skeeter2020 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What's funny is that Onion article uses "a blockbuster $112 billion deal" because in 1998 a figure that high was so preposterous it helped with the parody. They'd need to add a few zeros today.

	▲	teeray 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		“Dr. Evil, this is 1969, that kind of money doesn’t even exist! It’s like saying you want a gajillion bajillion dollars!”

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jimbokun 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Bill Clinton, chief executive of U.S. Government, a division of MCI-WorldCom, praised Monday’s merger as “an excellent move.”

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giraffe_lady 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Lockheed-Northrop-Boeing-Pepsico is an excellent joke all on its own damn.

	▲	scruple 19 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the Franchise Wars. Now all restaurants are Taco Bell.
	▲	mortos 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Also a pretty subtle one, this article was written after Boeing and McConnell Douglas merged a year prior.
	▲	tgv 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Remember, that's just a subsidiairy of the Sheinhardt Wig Company.