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[–] [email protected] 180 points 1 day ago (17 children)

Tim Onion

Wait, the CEO of The Onion goes by “Tim Onion” on Bluesky? My word, this whole thing just keeps getting funnier.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 day ago (3 children)

"Tim Onion" is so clever due to it's visual resemblance of "The Onion".

"Tim" and "The" have the same visual profile (width/ height distribution and curved letters), so if you squint your eyes, they look very similar.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Also a reference to Trump mistakenly calling Tim Cook "Tim Apple".

[–] [email protected] 134 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It's probably a reference to when Trump called Tim Cook, Tim Apple by accident

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Ignorance, not accident.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Crap DOUBLE WAIT I'm now realizing Tim Apple wasn't a real guy's name, dammit RIP my other comment

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

No, no it made your other comment funnier

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Haha thanks for making me laugh. If it helps, it took me years to recognize that Chipotle didn’t have the chipotle flavor Tabasco simply because it tastes good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Wait a minute...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can see some merit to making CEOs change their legal last name to whatever company they're the head of.

Tim Boeing would be a lot more noticable in the public world.

To prevent private equity from doing their shell company nonsense to hide accountability, just double-barrel (n many times) all the companies together in the last name.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is very funny applied to all businesses. "Hi, I'm John Smith and Son's and Son's, and this is my son, John Smith and Son's and Son's Jr., at least until he takes over the family business."

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah, there’s no probably about it. That’s just the joke.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Since we are explaining things: an onion, like an apple is a fruit.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Good thing because Tim Apple was already CEO of another company.

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