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Miller and Coors are joining together to take on Anheuser-Busch.













This new Brewing conglomerate will sport the unimaginative name of MillerCoors. Seriously that is the best they can come up with? I figure it went something like this:

Coors Exec : We are going to need a new name.

Miller Exec : But we don't want to alienate our current customers.

Coors Exec : Well lets just smash the names together and put a hyphen in between, we shall call it Coors-Miller.

Miller Exec: We can't have a hyphen, Anheuser-Busch already dominates the hyphenated beer market, and I really don't see why Coors should get it's name first.

Coors Exec: Come on now having Coors first is the alphabetical way to do it.

Miller Exec: This is a load of crap, if Miller is not first we are going to walk.

Coors Exec: Fine, we will select the order of our new ventures name the same way the
Cleveland Browns selected their preseason starting quarterback.

Miller Exec: How did they do it?

Coors Exec: Well of course they flipped a coin.

Miller Exec: I love it. Simple and fair and it totally worked for the Browns. OK heads Miller first, tails Coors first.

Coors Exec: Works for me.

(Coin flip)

Coors Exec: Son of a ....

I am always a fan of a company that produces two products that directly compete with each other, it is obvious why I am not a business major because this crap makes no sense to me.