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Well maybe I shouldn't name company names, but since neither of those entities exists any more under those names, what the heck. I used to work for Weyerhaeuser Mortgage Company. Weyerhaeuser is a large lumber company in the Pacific northwest. They sell lumber and paper and own a number of home builders as well. At one time they also had a mortgage company to finance the homes that their builders built using their lumber. They had insurance companies to insure the homes. They had title companies to do title insurance. They had escrow companies. Etc. etc. etc. And then one day they decided to get rid of everything that was peripheral and "focus on their core business", ie lumber and paper. So they sold the mortgage company to a holding company. The holding company, wanting to leverage off of the name brand recognition, so they kept a logo very similar to the Weyerhaeuser one (same color anyway) and they called the new company WMC. What does WMC stand for? Nothing!!! Oh, we had a field day with that one. Bad Dawn and her smart aleck former co-workers. Did you ever have fun at the expense of a company that you worked for?