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** A blinds company in Cork once was known as 'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA blinds'. That's ''thirty seven'' uses of the letter a. They've since cut it down to just 'AAAA blinds'.
** ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' references this in the Strong Bad Email "your funeral", where Homestar reads from the phone book: "Aardvark Pizza. Abe Lincoln's Pizza Cabin. Acupuncture & Pizza."
* Conversely, Zenith had the same connotations of claiming to be "the high point" in some particular field of endeavour, but would almost invariably snag the last position on any alphabetical list. Not as desirable as being listed first, but still better than being buried three-quarters of the way into the body of the list.
** The Zenith Radio Company (Chicago, 1923). Had a few good ideas in its day (such as the original "space command" TV remote control) but was ultimately sold to LG/Goldstar (Korea) in Chapter 11 bankruptcy administration in 1999. ''The rubbish goes in before the name goes on.''
** Subscribers to the original manual AT&T toll-free (freephone) services were often assigned numbers like "Zenith 1-2345". As there was no Q or Z on the telephone dial in the pre-SMS era, these could not be dialled as [[Telephone Exchange Names]] and had to be called through the live operator.
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