<nose in air>Oh, goodness, no. That would be the correct interpretation for an institution known as Five Thirds Bank. This, in contrast, is Fifth Third, with the “of,” for multiplication, implied. 1/5 x 1/3 = 1/15; a fifth of a third is a fifteenth.</nose in air>
Upon further reflection, I suppose it could be an ordinal of sorts: line up all the thirds and take the fifth one, as in
1/3 1/3 1/3 1/3 1/3 1/3 1/3 1/3…
In which case it would be the One and Two Thirdsth Bank. Hard to say and spell.
Or, it could be musical, which is interesting as the simultaneous playing of an interval of a third and an interval of a fifth would result in a major triad, assuming we started on the same tone for each…if the fifth is based on the upper note of the third we get something a wee bit dissonant…
If you are in the biz, you know. There are thousands of quickly built buildings around, Taco Bells come to mind, that are framed, covered with insulating sheet that can have beveled edges to look like thick panels. Then they are stuccoed with Dryvit. It is a thick cement based, granular product, already colored, that is troweled on and you’re done. The “vit” stands for vitreous in both names.
Assuming 1-origin addressing the fifth third is the closed interval [1.333… , 1.666…] or [1 [sup]1[/sup]/[sub]3[/sub], 1 [sup]2[/sup]/[sub]3[/sub]].
Assuming 0-origin addressing the fifth third is the closed interval [1.666… , 2.000…] or [1 [sup]2[/sup]/[sub]3[/sub], 2].
It’d be prettier if we had real text formatting to draw our fractions. I did the best I could with the tools available.
It’s good mathematics but it’s *really *hard to fit into a jingle. Imagine “We’re your local friendly closed interval from one and one third to one and two thirds bank” sung by those perky female voices that do all the cheap TV jingles. It might be sung, but it just doesn’t sing.
What about “Academi”? That is the current name of the company that was briefly known as “Xe” after the name “Blackwater” became to infamous. What the hell kind of name is “Academi” for a bunch of mercenaries?
We all referred to those Italian road signs – you know, the ones that said “No U Turn”. Not sure why Italian, I guess the rhythm sounded right. Some kind of Pidgin, really.
But what all you folks are missing out on are the weed shops. Every one of those things has a cutesy name.
The launch of Cialis was delayed by several months, not due to safety or efficacy issues, but because some people with the surname Cialis sued the drug company and requested that the name be changed.
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I have a feeling that Fifth Third Bank, a company that is a ubiquitous presence in northern Illinois, will keep their name, unlike other banks and credit unions that have changed their name to various nonsense words. :dubious:
My favorites are every time you come up on a hill crest or blind curve on a rural road there are signs that say “Do Not Pass”.
My comment: “Colonel DoNot sure explored a lot of this country back in the old days. Then he went and named every damn canyon, ditch, and road cut after himself. Sheesh what an egomaniac!”
There’s a song called “Don’t You Drift on by.” Maybe people often refer to the song as simply “Drift on by,” and the owners didn’t know what the full title was. Also, maybe they thought the song was so popular, people would automatically fill in the whole name in their minds. FAIL.
There’s a fruit juice place in San Francisco that calls itself “Street Juice.” I hear they’re good, I just can’t get through the door while maintaining an appetite for their product.
There’s those WATCH FOR FALLING ROCK and DEER CROSSING signs. Deer Crossing was a Native American woman who went in search of her beloved, Falling Rock, who had gone missing …
I had totally forgotten about that chain; there was one in my old town. I’m not a wrap fan myself, and the ones I had from there weren’t very good. The drug reps would sometimes bring them in when I worked at the hospital, so for the most part, I didn’t have to pay for them.
