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      10 days ago

      The meme has it backwards … worker should be saying … ‘I guess we produce motorcycles now’

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        BMW started off making aircraft engines over a hundred years ago when powered aircraft were first being developed … which is why their logo is a circle with four different coloured quarters, it’s the image of a spinning propeller

        Just don’t ask them what they were doing between 1933 and 1945

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          Nintendo started off making playing cards, that’s why their logo is a [Remainder of comment removed due to Cease and Desist]

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          This is a misconception. The chequered blue and white is part of a Bavarian flag, but due to some legal issues they had to straighten it.

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            Yes … and because of that, for the longest time, because so many people repeated it, I thought the acronym stood for Bavarian Motor Works … its actually ‘Bayerische Motoren Werke’