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Nuts. I just changed Lo Bidda to Low Bidder in my Strongest Start entry. Back to the edit screen.

Is Lo Bidda Corporation an obvious variant of Low Bidder Corporation, or should I make it more obvious for the spoof-impaired?

I plan to have a cab driver named Leonardo.

Welcome, G. You've done step one. :-)  Now please introduce yourself and tell us a bit about the story you've written.

Dune, the best-selling sci-fi novel of all time used omniscient/headhopping. The author and his son have written well over a dozen books in the Dune universe. Movie, two miniseries, another planned movie, etc.

Just saying...

Outlining to be begin before the end of this month. I have only one important book to reread before I start.

Turns out the Supreme Court ruled in 1983 that Parker Brothers no longer has a valid trademark on Monopoly. So LowBid Corporation or Monopoly Corporation? They are a technology monopoly.

I'm waffling between Lowest Bidder Corporation and Acme, Inc. The latter is less wordy, even if I drop Corporation and Inc. Anyone want to stop me before I change it back to Acme? Either way, it's intended to be silly. The former is my own creation whereas the latter is instantly recognizable as a variant of ACME Corporation. The name ACME dates back a century, so Bugs Bunny has no right to the name Acme, Inc. Also, although my Acme technology is always breaking down, ACME products always worked exactly according to specs. since ACME turned out to be a subsidiary of the Road Runner Corporation. I could consider LowBid Corporation, but it's not as funny as Acme. Or Lowbid?

Thoughts?

It's a localized problem. I just clicked on your pen name above and it took me to your profile.

THE LAST JEDI SPOILERS. The final two hours of The Last Jedi aren't as bad as I remember. The ski speeders on Crait were pretty silly, though. Must be old tech. Killing off Snoke near the beginning of his character arc was dumb, but it makes room for Kylo Ren. Not sure why he would put Rey ahead of Snoke, but so be it. I still think they're playing out Jacen Solo's character arc from the non-canon books. It remains to be seen if Rey kills him or not. I'm guessing not. Far too simplistic to kill off the bad guy and have a happy ending. And they definitely should have let Finn take out the cannon on Crait. That would have been a powerful ending for him. Let's face it, they have to start killing off some of the good guys to get down to Kdot's Rule of Two (Two characters left standing? Place your bets!)

Good luck with Transformers. When the autobots fight, all you see is metal on metal all over the screen. A lot like the crazy effects in Dr. Strange.