xkcd #3269: Airport Meeting

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Although it was a setback for physics, I’m glad the particle naming rights issue led to the cancelation of Pizza Hut’s Superconducting Super Collider in the early 90s, so the Double Stuffed Extra Cheese Topping Quark ended up just being named ‘top quark.’

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3269/

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  • Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz
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    3 days ago

    The Michelin tyre company made its restaurant guide so that people would drive more and more they could sell more tyres.

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      And redbull invented the supercar so that people would think it made you go faster so they’d drink more redbull

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          This is propaganda by big airport

          Airplanes were invented by harbors because they got annoyed by passanger liners and decided to lite a fire under them to get them inline

          Only later would the “flying boats” decide to have a breakup with harbors

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    I want to find the yin-yang twin for the Guiness Breweries and the Guiness Book of World Records. There has to be some sort of information/registry company that has done an alcoholic beverage.