# The Atoz Game (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 24, 2020, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920 "2020-01-24T21:53:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 241
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/4802 "2021-01-14T03:21:23Z")
**Defunct Brand Names** American Motors / AMC Brunswick Records Continental Airlines DeSoto Edsel Fotomat Goebel Beer Hubba Bubba Soda Irving and Casson Jams Knox Automobile Co. Look magazine Midwest Airlines Nash vehicles Oldsmobile ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/4803 "2021-01-14T11:14:52Z")
**Defunct Brand Names** American Motors / AMC Brunswick Records Continental Airlines DeSoto Edsel Fotomat Goebel Beer Hubba Bubba Soda Irving and Casson Jams Knox Automobile Co. Look magazine Midwest Airlines Nash vehicles Oldsmobile PET Milk ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/4804 "2021-01-14T11:52:02Z")
**Defunct Brand Names** American Motors / AMC Brunswick Records Continental Airlines DeSoto Edsel Fotomat Goebel Beer Hubba Bubba Soda Irving and Casson Jams Knox Automobile Co. Look magazine Midwest Airlines Nash vehicles Oldsmobile PET Milk Queen Quality Chicago-based brand line of canned foods, ca. 1950. My mom bought them ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/4805 "2021-01-14T12:55:47Z")
**Defunct Brand Names** American Motors / AMC Brunswick Records Continental Airlines DeSoto Edsel Fotomat Goebel Beer Hubba Bubba Soda Irving and Casson Jams Knox Automobile Co. Look magazine Midwest Airlines Nash vehicles Oldsmobile PET Milk Queen Quality RCA ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/4806 "2021-01-14T14:32:33Z")
**Defunct Brand Names** American Motors / AMC Brunswick Records Continental Airlines DeSoto Edsel Fotomat Goebel Beer Hubba Bubba Soda Irving and Casson Jams Knox Automobile Co. Look magazine Midwest Airlines Nash vehicles Oldsmobile PET Milk Queen Quality RCA Sperry ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/4807 "2021-01-14T16:25:52Z")
**Defunct Brand Names** American Motors / AMC Brunswick Records Continental Airlines DeSoto Edsel Fotomat Goebel Beer Hubba Bubba Soda Irving and Casson Jams Knox Automobile Co. Look magazine Midwest Airlines Nash vehicles Oldsmobile PET Milk Queen Quality RCA Sperry Trans World Airlines / TWA ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/4808 "2021-01-14T16:55:56Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Sperry What _Sperry_ was that? The only Sperry that I’m aware of (and Google too, apparently) is a brand of boat shoes, but they’re still around. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/4809 "2021-01-14T16:58:30Z")
**Defunct Brand Names** American Motors / AMC Brunswick Records Continental Airlines DeSoto Edsel Fotomat Goebel Beer Hubba Bubba Soda Irving and Casson Jams Knox Automobile Co. Look magazine Midwest Airlines Nash vehicles Oldsmobile PET Milk Queen Quality RCA Sperry Trans World Airlines / TWA UNIVAC ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/4810 "2021-01-15T03:04:23Z")
**Defunct Brand Names** American Motors / AMC Brunswick Records Continental Airlines DeSoto Edsel Fotomat Goebel Beer Hubba Bubba Soda Irving and Casson Jams Knox Automobile Co. Look magazine Midwest Airlines Nash vehicles Oldsmobile PET Milk Queen Quality RCA Sperry Trans World Airlines / TWA UNIVAC Vickers ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/4811 "2021-01-15T04:42:34Z")
> [@Bayaker](#): > > > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > > Sperry > > What _Sperry_ was that? The only Sperry that I’m aware of (and Google too, apparently) is a brand of boat shoes, but they’re still around. _Sic transit gloria corporatum:_ > **[Sperry Corporation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperry_Corporation)** > > Sperry Corporation was a major American equipment and electronics company whose existence spanned more than seven decades of the 20th century. Sperry ceased to exist in 1986 following a prolonged hostile takeover bid engineered by Burroughs Corporation, which merged the combined operation under the new name Unisys. Some of Sperry's former divisions became part of Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Technologies, and Northrop Grumman. > The company is best known as the developer of the artifici... **Defunct Brand Names** American Motors / AMC Brunswick Records Continental Airlines DeSoto Edsel Fotomat Goebel Beer Hubba Bubba Soda Irving and Casson Jams Knox Automobile Co. Look magazine Midwest Airlines Nash vehicles Oldsmobile PET Milk Queen Quality RCA Sperry Trans World Airlines / TWA UNIVAC Viceroy Dress Co. ---
**Author:** ![FastDan1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fastdan1/32/427_2.png) [@FastDan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FastDan1)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/4812 "2021-01-15T04:55:48Z")
**Defunct Brand Names** American Motors / AMC Brunswick Records Continental Airlines DeSoto Edsel Fotomat Goebel Beer Hubba Bubba Soda Irving and Casson Jams Knox Automobile Co. Look magazine Midwest Airlines Nash vehicles Oldsmobile PET Milk Queen Quality RCA Sperry Trans World Airlines / TWA UNIVAC Viceroy Dress Co. Woolworth’s ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/4813 "2021-01-15T11:54:34Z")
**Defunct Brand Names** American Motors / AMC Brunswick Records Continental Airlines DeSoto Edsel Fotomat Goebel Beer Hubba Bubba Soda Irving and Casson Jams Knox Automobile Co. Look magazine Midwest Airlines Nash vehicles Oldsmobile PET Milk Queen Quality RCA Sperry Trans World Airlines / TWA UNIVAC Viceroy Dress Co. Woolworth’s XERF The Mexican radio station that made Wolfman Jack famous ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/4814 "2021-01-15T15:33:59Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Sic transit gloria corporatum: Thanks for that. I was looking up just _Sperry_, not _Sperry Corporation_, but it still seems odd that Google had no mention of them through FIVE pages of googlehits(I went back and checked). Seems like they were much more important than some overpriced deck shoes 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/4815 "2021-01-15T15:53:15Z")
**Defunct Brand Names** American Motors / AMC Brunswick Records Continental Airlines DeSoto Edsel Fotomat Goebel Beer Hubba Bubba Soda Irving and Casson Jams Knox Automobile Co. Look magazine Midwest Airlines Nash vehicles Oldsmobile PET Milk Queen Quality RCA Sperry Trans World Airlines / TWA UNIVAC Viceroy Dress Co. Woolworth’s XERF Yellow Front Stores ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/4816 "2021-01-15T17:36:08Z")
**Defunct Brand Names** American Motors / AMC Brunswick Records Continental Airlines DeSoto Edsel Fotomat Goebel Beer Hubba Bubba Soda Irving and Casson Jams Knox Automobile Co. Look magazine Midwest Airlines Nash vehicles Oldsmobile PET Milk Queen Quality RCA Sperry Trans World Airlines / TWA UNIVAC Viceroy Dress Co. Woolworth’s XERF Yellow Front Stores Zody’s pass ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/4817 "2021-01-16T16:24:48Z")
> [@Bayaker](#): > > > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > > Sic transit gloria corporatum: > > Thanks for that. I was looking up just _Sperry_, not _Sperry Corporation_, but it still seems odd that Google had no mention of them through FIVE pages of googlehits(I went back and checked). Seems like they were much more important than some overpriced deck shoes 🙂 Yes, I agree. That’s odd. Next up: **Things to savor about the New Year** Adventure ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/4818 "2021-01-16T16:59:44Z")
**Things to savor about the New Year** Adventure Beginnings ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/4819 "2021-01-16T19:20:41Z")
**Things to savor about the New Year** Adventure Beginnings COVID-19 vaccines ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/4820 "2021-01-18T17:25:03Z")
**Things to savor about the New Year** Adventure Beginnings COVID-19 vaccines Democracy ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/4821 "2021-01-18T18:50:32Z")
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