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Interesting. But I have a few comments:

o Baskin Robbins: Ah, see, I thought the "31" was a reference to 31 being simultaneously a Mersenne prime (31 = 2^5 - 1) and the exponent of a Mersenne prime (2^31 - 1), a kind of subliminal "I scream, you scream, we all scream for Mersenne primes" viral marketing campaign. Looks like I may have been overthinking this one.

o McDonald's: I admit I was oblivious to the "Mickey Dee's as the Russ Meyer film of fast food franchises" angle asserted by the brand-psychologist fellow. Thanks for keeping us abreast of that, dude. But how does that square with their no-milk shakes?

o Mistubishi: Of course the symbol has nothing whatsoever to do with the image of the propellor on the WW2 Mitsubishi Zero. ("Make Bonsai, not Banzai" is our unofficial corporate logo, if you must know).

o Northwest Airlines: I always saw the triangle as being of the "pointing down" kind like elevators use, and embodying "the trend in our service quality over the years".

o Amazon: See, I *told* you it wasn't a curvy-banana phallic symbol.

o Google: Ah ha, ha, you guys are so freaking clever! Now please fuck off already, and keep your creepy paws off our private data and your creepy "smart devices" out of our homes, cars and bodies, OK?

o Tostitos: "Two priests of the high church of chemo-starchology celebrating mass".

o Elefont: OK, I admit that one is cool. And being monochrome-minimalist, I bet it only cost peanuts...

o Toblerone: Da Bearsssss! Wish they came in extra-dark, though. (Maybe they do, but not at the local stores I visit that carry them). To ask for that in German, just say "Könnte ich bitte eine Dunkelsckokoladenbärchendreieckstafel kaufen?" And they say German is hard to learn...

o Pepsi: Talk about overthinking things ... hey morons! It's *still* just fizzy colored overpriced sugarwater!

o IBM: Some companies being more equal that others, naturally.

o Spartan GC: Cute, but I get the feeling the real Spartans wouldn't have thought much of golf. "Looks like Leonidas is going to use a 6-iron to brain this next par-3 troop of Persian mercenaries ... but he needs to watch out for that pothole bunker guarding the back left of the green..."

o Unilever: Ouch, that hurts my eyes to look at. And shouldn't it be "Multilever"?

o Toyota: I guess "heart-shaped" doesn't mean what it used to.

o BMW: Unlike Mitsubishi, the Bavarians are not afraid to "embrace their inner propellorhead".

o Sun Microsystems: If they'd only put as much thought into their business model as they did their logo. (Yeah, I'm lookin' at you, Jon "my ponytail gives me limitless geek cred" Schwartz).

o Wendy's: Oh gawd, not another "Mom, apple pie and a nourishing pair of mammalian protuberances" deal." (BTW, Russ Meyer called, he wants to know if he can supersize those).

o Bronx Zoo: Youse short stuffs like dis logo here?

o Coca-Cola: If you look hard enough, I bet you can see that it also contains the name of the prophet written upside down and backwards, which is blasphemy. Can we get a media stunt for that, too?

o FedEx: If they're so forward-thinking, shouldn't the arrow be pointing, well, forward?

o Presbyterian Church: "There is no 'I' in 'Presbyterian'! Oh,wait..."

o Eighty20: Hey guys - byte me.

o LG: And don't forget the fuzzy-wuzzy huggable bunny-wunnies!

o Adidas: Ah, see, I thought the 3 thingies represented the metaphorical thrust-faulting subduction zone of the sports gear marketplace. Learn something new every day.

o Häagen-Dazs: I always thought the name was Danish for "Gratuitous Umlauts 'R' Us".

o NBC: "Yeah, it's a peacock, but did you ever wonder why it has so many colors?" Um, because real peacocks have many colors in their famously colorful iridescent plumage? Nah, that couldn't be it...

o Audi: You mean it's not a reference to the 4-opera Ring Cycle by that Robert Wagner dude?

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