← Back to context Comment by moolcool 6 hours ago https://theonion.com/just-six-corporations-remain-1819564741... 8 comments moolcool Reply skeeter2020 5 hours ago What's funny is that Onion article uses "a blockbuster $112 billion deal" because in 1998 a figure that high was so preposterous it helped with the parody. They'd need to add a few zeros today. ezfe 19 minutes ago Inflation adjusted it would be about double since 1998 - $223 billion, this Netflix deal is for approximately 1/3rd that amount. teeray 5 hours ago “Dr. Evil, this is 1969, that kind of money doesn’t even exist! It’s like saying you want a gajillion bajillion dollars!” jimbokun 3 hours ago > Bill Clinton, chief executive of U.S. Government, a division of MCI-WorldCom, praised Monday’s merger as “an excellent move.” giraffe_lady 4 hours ago Lockheed-Northrop-Boeing-Pepsico is an excellent joke all on its own damn. scruple 1 hour ago > Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the Franchise Wars. Now all restaurants are Taco Bell. mortos 3 hours ago Also a pretty subtle one, this article was written after Boeing and McConnell Douglas merged a year prior. tgv 4 hours ago Remember, that's just a subsidiairy of the Sheinhardt Wig Company.
skeeter2020 5 hours ago What's funny is that Onion article uses "a blockbuster $112 billion deal" because in 1998 a figure that high was so preposterous it helped with the parody. They'd need to add a few zeros today. ezfe 19 minutes ago Inflation adjusted it would be about double since 1998 - $223 billion, this Netflix deal is for approximately 1/3rd that amount. teeray 5 hours ago “Dr. Evil, this is 1969, that kind of money doesn’t even exist! It’s like saying you want a gajillion bajillion dollars!”
ezfe 19 minutes ago Inflation adjusted it would be about double since 1998 - $223 billion, this Netflix deal is for approximately 1/3rd that amount.
teeray 5 hours ago “Dr. Evil, this is 1969, that kind of money doesn’t even exist! It’s like saying you want a gajillion bajillion dollars!”
jimbokun 3 hours ago > Bill Clinton, chief executive of U.S. Government, a division of MCI-WorldCom, praised Monday’s merger as “an excellent move.”
giraffe_lady 4 hours ago Lockheed-Northrop-Boeing-Pepsico is an excellent joke all on its own damn. scruple 1 hour ago > Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the Franchise Wars. Now all restaurants are Taco Bell. mortos 3 hours ago Also a pretty subtle one, this article was written after Boeing and McConnell Douglas merged a year prior. tgv 4 hours ago Remember, that's just a subsidiairy of the Sheinhardt Wig Company.
scruple 1 hour ago > Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the Franchise Wars. Now all restaurants are Taco Bell.
mortos 3 hours ago Also a pretty subtle one, this article was written after Boeing and McConnell Douglas merged a year prior.
What's funny is that Onion article uses "a blockbuster $112 billion deal" because in 1998 a figure that high was so preposterous it helped with the parody. They'd need to add a few zeros today.
Inflation adjusted it would be about double since 1998 - $223 billion, this Netflix deal is for approximately 1/3rd that amount.
“Dr. Evil, this is 1969, that kind of money doesn’t even exist! It’s like saying you want a gajillion bajillion dollars!”
> Bill Clinton, chief executive of U.S. Government, a division of MCI-WorldCom, praised Monday’s merger as “an excellent move.”
Lockheed-Northrop-Boeing-Pepsico is an excellent joke all on its own damn.
> Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the Franchise Wars. Now all restaurants are Taco Bell.
Also a pretty subtle one, this article was written after Boeing and McConnell Douglas merged a year prior.
Remember, that's just a subsidiairy of the Sheinhardt Wig Company.