Today I Found Out
Where the Looney Tune’s “ACME” Corporation Name Came From (2015x92)
Air date: Jul 30, 2015
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→’“ACME” is the name of the fictional company that appeared in almost every Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote cartoon. This company supplied Wile E. Coyote with a never-ending range of ridiculous products that would inevitably fail, generally with hilarious consequences.
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Source/Further reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_Corporation
http://www.shutterstock.com/
http://www.acronymfinder.com/ACME.html
http://mentalfloss.com/article/32268/where-did-looney-tunes-%E2%80%9Cacme-corporation%E2%80%9D-come
http://home.roadrunner.com/~tuco/looney/acme.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Roadrunner
Image Credit (Thank you)
http://nerdbastards.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/wile_e_coyote_ACME.jpg
http://www.policemag.com/_Images/blogs/M-Wile-E-Coyote-Acme.jpg
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/IoVwoBVw02w/hqdefault.jpg
https://d13yacurqjgara.cloudfront.net/users/2767/screenshots/835760/dribbble_acme_800_logo.jpg
http://www.edgeinteractive.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/ACME1.png
http://www.achievement.org/achievers/jon1/large/jon1-023.jpg
http://thedecaturminute.com/files/2008/10/chuck-jones11x14.jpg
https://static.squarespace.com/static/51b3dc8ee4b051b96ceb10de/51ce6099e4b0d911b4489b79/51ce6198e4b0d911b4499702/1356201299487/1000w/looney20toons.jpeg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Greater_Roadrunner_(Geococcyx_californianus)_(3399096675).jpg
http://www.artinsights.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/20130126115045.jpg
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