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* Jasper Fforde's ''[[Thursday Next]]'' series has the Goliath Corporation. Its motto is "For all you'll ever need." |
* Jasper Fforde's ''[[Thursday Next]]'' series has the Goliath Corporation. Its motto is "For all you'll ever need." |
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** And in the latest sequel [[One Of Our Thursdays Is Missing]] Thursday has a sort-of part-time job in a carpet fitting company which is ''called'' Acme. |
** And in the latest sequel [[One Of Our Thursdays Is Missing]] Thursday has a sort-of part-time job in a carpet fitting company which is ''called'' Acme. |
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* The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation from ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' produces most of the sentient robots, sentient computers, and sentient elevators ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]) seen in the series. They have a very poor reputation and at one point it's mentioned that their complaints division is the only part of the company that turns a profit. |
* The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation from ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' produces most of the sentient robots, sentient computers, and sentient elevators ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]) seen in the series. They have a very poor reputation and at one point it's mentioned that their complaints division is the only part of the company that turns a profit. |
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** The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation describes the robot as "your plastic pal that's fun to be with". The Guide describes The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as, well, a string of rather bad words which were still marginally fit to print. For instance, one of the more infamous products was an automated door which responds "Please enjoy your trip through this door", "Thank you for making a simple door very happy" or simply "[[Thanking the Viewer|Thank You]]" whenever anyone walks through (the exact wording varies from print to radio to TV). |
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** ...and guess who was the first against the wall when the revolution came. |
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* CHOAM (Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles) is a massive entity in ''[[Dune]]'' which, more or less, controls the sale of everything - essentially a mass amalgamation of craft and guilds. |
* CHOAM (Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles) is a massive entity in ''[[Dune]]'' which, more or less, controls the sale of everything - essentially a mass amalgamation of craft and guilds. |
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** To a lesser extent the Spacing Guild, who are a strangulatory monopoly (and own about a third of CHOAM's stock) as the only entity capable of space travel and the only owners of interstellar ships - all of CHOAM's goods require them, and they take a hefty cut of profit, as well as all transport or movement - without the Guild, the Empire, and CHOAM, collapses. |
** To a lesser extent the Spacing Guild, who are a strangulatory monopoly (and own about a third of CHOAM's stock) as the only entity capable of space travel and the only owners of interstellar ships - all of CHOAM's goods require them, and they take a hefty cut of profit, as well as all transport or movement - without the Guild, the Empire, and CHOAM, collapses. |
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== Live Action TV == |
== Live Action TV == |
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