# Learn how to capitalize, dumbass corporations **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 8, 2001, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-how-to-capitalize-dumbass-corporations/48959 "2001-01-08T04:53:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-how-to-capitalize-dumbass-corporations/48959/21 "2001-01-09T06:26:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Man Who \* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by CrankyAsAnOldMan \* > > Once we get my legislation passed outlawing the use of misspellings like “Kwik” and “Qwik” in products and convenience store chains, then maybe, just maybe, we can visit your beef and see if the authorities need to step in. > > Sorry, but the Kum and Go chain has high-paid lobbyists preventing this legislation from passing. > [sub] > Good thing, too. > > Cordially, > > MyronM.Meyer > TheManWho > > Seriously. Ask anyone is South Dakota or Iowa. Real convenience store chain.[/sub] What’s that? A drive-thru porn shop? A drive-thru prostitution depot? ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-how-to-capitalize-dumbass-corporations/48959/22 "2001-01-09T09:14:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Ryan \* > Oh, yeah? What about those stupid capital "B"s that they have everywhere? They don’t even write them correctly! Yeah, what a bunch of dumb-aßes… ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-how-to-capitalize-dumbass-corporations/48959/23 "2001-01-09T12:15:50Z")
I hadn’t realized how offensive my user name must be. But I ain’t gonna change it. ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-how-to-capitalize-dumbass-corporations/48959/24 "2001-01-09T12:37:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by matt\_mcl \* > \*\*That should be the next big protest. Capitalists Can’t Capitalize! We could get k.d. lang and ani difranco to headline. \*\* Why? Do you want to insure that no-one in the U.S. who lives more than 50 miles inland will bother to show? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-how-to-capitalize-dumbass-corporations/48959/25 "2001-01-09T15:37:00Z")
Don’t worry, Lizard. We’ll win over the heartland with a series of e. e. cummings festivals. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-how-to-capitalize-dumbass-corporations/48959/26 "2001-01-09T18:43:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Man Who \* > \*\* > > Sorry, but the Kum and Go chain has high-paid lobbyists preventing this legislation from passing. > > Seriously. Ask anyone is South Dakota or Iowa. Real convenience store chain. \*\* Don’t I know it. I made my husband pull over in Iowa so I could get a photo of the sign. Once I stopped laughing. Not, unfortunately, the photo that got published in one of those “Weird Snapshot” sites. ---
**Author:** ![SueFriendly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5e9695/32.png) [@SueFriendly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SueFriendly)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-how-to-capitalize-dumbass-corporations/48959/27 "2001-01-09T19:40:27Z")
An Oregon native on RAGBRAI, I was shocked silly to see the Kum and Go’s and HAD to stop and take a picture. “The folks at home, they’ll never believe.” PS don’t use their restrooms ---
**Author:** ![SueFriendly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5e9695/32.png) [@SueFriendly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SueFriendly)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-how-to-capitalize-dumbass-corporations/48959/28 "2001-01-09T19:44:54Z")
they’re in nebraska too ---
**Author:** ![City\_Gent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a87d85/32.png) [@City\_Gent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/City_Gent)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-how-to-capitalize-dumbass-corporations/48959/29 "2001-01-10T00:36:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by matt\_mcl \* > \*\*City: Oh my god. Raping our environment, shredding the fabric of our society, and abrogating the decisions of democratically-elected governments has _nothing_ on this. > > \*\* Well, you have to walk before you can run. If we can’t get them to fix their stupid names, they’ll never fix the other stuff. I consider the intra-word capitals to be just another sign of the depravity of modern capitalism. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Max Torque \* > \*\*InterCapping has been around at least as long as the original 128K Macintosh in 1984 (MacWrite, anyone?). It’s apparently come to be seen as “progressive” over the years. If you ain’t used to a decades-old capitalization practice, ToughTitty. \*\* There’s a women’s clothing store in San Francisco called “toughtitties”. At least they have the sense to hold back on the capitals. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rocket88 \* > \*\* > Anti-trust tip: If the merged corporation is so large as to require that it be named in this fashion, the merger application should be turned down.😃 \*\* I like the sound of that! 🙂 > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OpalCat \* > \*\*_sob_ > > :::slinks off in shame::: \*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bj0rn \* > \*\*… > > bj0rn - trying to understand 😃 \*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LouisB \* > \*\*I hadn’t realized how offensive my user name must be. But I ain’t gonna change it. \*\* Y’all didn’t read the OP! I gave an indulgence for screen names. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Robot Arm \* > \*\*There’s a name for everything. In this case the name is [BiCapitalization](http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/BiCapitalization.html) (not to be confused with [studlycaps](http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/studlycaps.html)). \*\* My 7th grade social studies teacher had studlycapped handwriting. I considered it a sign of intellectual deficiency. Well, there were other reasons for that, too. Ask **pldennison** ; he was in my class. Regarding Kum and Go: It sounds like a porno movie with “water sports”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-how-to-capitalize-dumbass-corporations/48959.md?page=1)