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Geico is another one of those us company names that just baffles my Anglo brain.
Is it just the result of 8 billion corporate mergers and Geico is the soulless name that just happened to be spat out the end?
It was originally an acronym, Government Employees Insurance Company.
which is baffling in the usual yankee way of something sounding like it's a government program when it is in fact an absurdly conceived private entity. auto insurance for government employees based on the frankly insane hunch that a government employee is magically less likely to wreck a car.
The moment i found out that “right to work” has nothing to do with guaranteed employment. Even wikipedia had to include a disclaimer that the American version has nothing to do with the internationally understood definition.
SPRINT means "Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Network Telephony"
Railroad you say?
But they have a cute gecko mascot!
I avoid ads like the plague so the first time I learned about it was in a Reddit thread. I'm American but I never felt less American my whole life. I had no idea what Geico was and why it/they had a mascot. Somebody called it the "Geico lizard" which outraged some Redditors who corrected the OP by telling them repeatedly it was a gecko. When I googled - I had a good laugh. My guess was that it was anime related or maybe something related to a band maybe? I'll never understand how passionate Americans can be about a marketing tool.
the word for gecko in mandarin 壁虎 (bìhǔ) translates literally to "wall tiger"
Geckos are literally lizards… what?
I suppose at that time the Reddit hivemind thought of geckos as lizards+ due to their special feet, one kind of gecko can vocalize, some (all?) geckos can clean their eyes with their tongue, (etc?). That was years ago but if I'm right - they still think that way.
Yeah you’re def right and death to reddit
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Maybe the hivemind is aware of that to so a gecko can't be just a mere "lizard".
What if he had insurance but it was for the fellas?
Oh shit we've excluded half the population, change the letters slightly