[Prime Choice]

Next thing you know, the esteemed author of this piece will start claiming that someone named their daughter "Mercedes" after the automobile... Sheesh.

[Calvin Locke]

Hey Prime Choice. You, and the author, forgot Kobe Beef.

Mercedes. What a coincidence. I literally just got a copy of a CBSRMT show starring Mercedes McCambridge.

So, as a hiring manager, would you hire Meridian? It's going to be a study in why certain "brands" don't get calls on their resumes.

Meridian. Yep, after seeing "Prime Meridian" on CSPAN a couple of months back, I'll be sure to look for "Meridian" next
time I have a say on a hire.

[DUMBGRUNT]

http://www.mercedes-benz.com/com/e/home/heritage/index.html

Mercedes – a Spanish girls’ name meaning ‘grace’ – was the name of the daughter born in 1889 to the Austrian businessman, Emil Jellinek, who had homes in Baden near Vienna and Nice.

At the beginning of April 1900, Jellinek made an agreement with DMG concerning sales of Daimler cars and engines. The decision was taken to develop a new engine “bearing the name Daimler-Mercedes”, thereby introducing Jellinek's pseudonym as a product designation. Two weeks later, Jellinek ordered 36 of the vehicles at a total price of 550,000 marks – a sizeable order even at today’s equivalent value of DM 5.5 million. A few weeks later, he placed an order for another 36 vehicles, all with 8 hp engines.