So here’s the deal: I’m going to keep posting old stuff from my newsgroup until I either run out — and I have over 500 old posts saved — or until we get a good conversation going in the comments.
This one is way out of sequence; I skipped ahead a couple of years. It’s also out of date, unsurprisingly.
September 1, 2008:
So I hold stock in a company called Triarc, which owns Arby’s — they used to own other stuff, but now it’s just Arby’s. They’re planning a merger with Wendy’s, and it needs stockholder approval, so I got this big fat mailing I was looking at just now.
Some of the stuff from the comparable companies I find fascinating.
Did you know Applebee’s is now owned by International House of Pancakes?
Did you know that Hard Rock Cafe International is owned by the Seminole Indians?
Hmm… one thing that might inhibit comments right now is that there’s no way (at least that I’m seeing) to tell which posts *have* comments (or how many there are). I just noticed the “The Five Latest Comments”, which might help if I had noticed it earlier… Also I suppose it might help if I logged in.
Good points. Hmm.