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57337028 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @173c3287 "The Company"  (but yeah, probably W-Y), but then W-Y could just as easily be Yoyodyne, or OCP.

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Sleigh Dodds 🧑‍🎄 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @c3187b80 @173c3287 but there are W-Y logos on offices doors, etc so they're not exactly a generic company in the film
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57337028 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @2d6fed24 true, but it is a generic combination of an "old world" British name and an "exotic" Japanese name as part of an overall anxiety that the US wasn't always going to be the "top nation" (which was a big concern for USians in the 1980s) @173c3287