Contrary to what I believed as a kid, M&M’s does not stand for Mmmmmmmmm. It actually stands for Mars & Murrie’s, referring to business partners Forrest Mars, Sr. and Bruce Murrie.
TASER guns were inspired from an imaginative sci-fi novel writer, Victor Appleton. His 1911 novel, Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle depicted an electric gun that influenced the invention of the TASER we know today.
FIAT stands for Fabric Italian Automobili Torino which translates to Italian Automobile Factory of Turin.
BJ’s Wholesale Club is not a place to go if you’re looking for a good time, the BJ actually stands for Beverly Jean Weich, the daughter of the company’s first president.
BMW comes from the company’s title Bayerische Motoren Werkein German. This translates to Bavarian Motor Works.
H&R Block stands for its founders Henry W. Bloch and Richard Bloch.
IBM does not stand for Irrational Bowel Movement, but instead International Business Machines Corporation.
NBC is the National Broadcasting Company.
Those annoyingly long CAPTCHA tests have a name that just as annoyingly long. It stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.
JCPenney is named for its founder James Cash Penney.
GEICO is not just a weird way to spell Gecko, it actually stands for Government Employees Insurance Company.
JBL stands for its founder James B. Lansing.
At its founding in 1963, CVS was an acronym for Consumer Value Stores. In 1969, CVS was sold to Melville Corporation and it 1996, its title was changed to CVS Corporation.
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that's not true, 'works' is perfectly OK in this context.
It's also called "motor works" because they were an airplane engine manufacturer back in the day.
Nope. Sibbie is right.
Nope. Sibbie is right
The same way FORD stands for Found On Road Dead, and BOAT stands for Bring Out Another Thousand
#17 an actual piece of information, hooray
#23 Germans just call them "Smart" not "Smart car" (or "Smart auto")