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* The [[w:Whatchamacallit (candy)|''Whatchamacallit'' bar]], a chocolate/peanut butter/caramel candy bar introduced by Hershey in 1978, uses a Metasyntactic Variable as its name to emphasize what at the time of its release was a candy bar allegedly radically different from any produced before.
** Hershey also briefly produced a chocolate-peanut butter bar called the ''Thingamajig'', which was available from 2009 to 2012.
** They also introduced a ''Whozeewhatzit'' bar in 2021, with some but not all of the ingredients of a ''Whatchamacallit'' bar.
* "X-ray" was originally a placeholder name for an [[Unknown Phenomenon|unexplained phenomenon]], with "X" representing the unknown, as in algebra.
* It is common to use the name "[[Acme Products|ACME]]" in example SQL Databases and as placeholder company-name for the purpose of teaching. The term 'ACME Database' is commonly used to mean a training or example-only set of database data used solely for training or testing. ACME is also commonly used in documentation which shows SQL usage examples, a common practice with in many educational texts as well as technical documentation from companies such as Microsoft and Oracle.
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