Hummers (the vehicle)...
When did it go from being a HumVee (is that the correct spelling?) to being called Hummer?
And how - in this day and age - did the company let that happen? We all know how corporations are SO careful about image, appeal, not rocking any boats, etc.
I just find this amazing!
No, I'm not offended at all...nothing like that. Just driving around today and yesterday and saw a couple of them on the road, saw a billboard for them, drove past the local dealership and have seen that TV commercial for them quite a bit lately.
Hummer.
Just seems like one of those silly things like Oscar Meyer unveiling a new slogan that went "our meat can't be beat" and not batting an eye or doing it without a trace of irony or a knowing smirk.
If I had a company called, say, "Fisticuff" or something, I WOULD NOT shorten it to the snazzier-sounding "Fister", just because...
But the Hummer people obviously didn't take that route.
Anyone know about this? Is the culture, so to speak, inside that particular corporation one that acknowledges and winks at this name? Or did some old coot on the board deem this a good name and made it so, completely oblivious to its modern-day, crass connotations?
Just curious...
And how - in this day and age - did the company let that happen? We all know how corporations are SO careful about image, appeal, not rocking any boats, etc.
I just find this amazing!
No, I'm not offended at all...nothing like that. Just driving around today and yesterday and saw a couple of them on the road, saw a billboard for them, drove past the local dealership and have seen that TV commercial for them quite a bit lately.
Hummer.
Just seems like one of those silly things like Oscar Meyer unveiling a new slogan that went "our meat can't be beat" and not batting an eye or doing it without a trace of irony or a knowing smirk.
If I had a company called, say, "Fisticuff" or something, I WOULD NOT shorten it to the snazzier-sounding "Fister", just because...
But the Hummer people obviously didn't take that route.
Anyone know about this? Is the culture, so to speak, inside that particular corporation one that acknowledges and winks at this name? Or did some old coot on the board deem this a good name and made it so, completely oblivious to its modern-day, crass connotations?
Just curious...
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Anyway, I don't know much about Hummers/Humvees anyway because I didn't even know you could just buy one for yourself until a couple years ago... I thought they were military only. Maybe Humvee means the military version or something?
Now they're readily available to anyone and they're called Hummer.
I still think it's funny.
Of all words.
and a message from your local militia:
http://www.scottsdalegunclub.com/Other/HMMWV.html
I don't know much about it, except that from what I've seen it looks like it's a "Luxury" version of the Hummer (?).