Acme

[NCHawker]

All Iowa fans recognize this word. Nile Kinnick used to to describe the Heisman Trophy. I was always too lazy to look up the exact meaning of it.


until now.























The Acme Corporation is a fictional corporation that features prominently in the Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote cartoons as arunning gag featuring outlandish products that fail or backfire catastrophically at the worst possible times. The name is also used as a generic title in many cartoons, films, TV series and comic strips.
The company name in the Road Runner cartoons is ironic, since the word acme is derived from Greek (ακμή ; English transliteration: akmḗ) meaning the peak, zenith or prime, and products from the fictional Acme Corporation are both genericand failure-prone.

 

[imported_ankle23]

you never watched saturday morning cartoons??

 

[Bordone]

Acme was also typically used as a business name back in the day so they would appear in the beginning of the phone book.

 

[tksirius]

If you ever need a good mapping website:
http://www.acme.com/mapper/

 

[NCHawker]

you never watched saturday morning cartoons??

Of course I did. I just never bothered to see exactly what Nile meant by it.

 

[tweeterhawk]

I had acme as a teen but outgrew it.

 

[hawkdrummer1]

Acme was also typically used as a business name back in the day so they would appear in the beginning of the phone book.

Not true.

I'm hoping this is a spoof thread. Do you guys really need the historical 411 on the term "acme".

 

[ColumbusHawk]

http://www.grocery.com/acme-markets/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_Fresh_Market