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.<\/p>\n
This one is way out of sequence; I skipped ahead a couple of years. It’s also out of date, unsurprisingly.<\/p>\n
September 1, 2008:<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Some of the stuff from the comparable companies I find fascinating.<\/p>\n
Did you know Applebee’s is now owned by International House of Pancakes?<\/p>\n
Did you know that Hard Rock Cafe International is owned by the Seminole Indians?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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