conversation fragment

[rone]

rone: "How does a company that makes clarinets also make a motorcycle?"
The Boy: "Dude, Yamaha makes everything. If the world came to an end and Yamaha survived, they could rebuild it."

Comments

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Your really, really big East Asian conglomerates are all like that. Mitsubishi sells rice.

[doctroid.livejournal.com]

I had a Panasonic bicycle once. My friends kept making comments about going home to listen to music on their Schwinn stereo system.

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

But they don't sell cars these days. Mitsubishi Motors Corporation was sold off as a separate entity and is now part of the Daimler-Chrysler empire.