Blackstone planning IPO for Merlin

Re: Blackstone planning IPO for Merlin

Who wants to go in and buy a few chunks of Merlin? If we get enough we can rename at least on of the parks "Charmland."

Last edited by Hopman, October 26, 2009, 12:58P

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Re: Blackstone planning IPO for Merlin

Blackstone Group's Merlin Entertainments is preparing an initial public offering

The plural of 'entertainment' is 'entertainment.' Is this a typo or the actual name of the company?

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The bastardization of the English language continues. Already the death of the distinction between "less" and "fewer" is nearing completion. Pretty soon we'll all sound like Alex DeLarge.

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- Mike Roberts

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Coveted linkback response opportunity.

Ohhh...make it the rare double linkback response.

What is proper to us is already a bastardization of what was proper previously...and that is a bastardization of what was proper before that...and so on.

The beauty of language is that it evolves.

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I'd click on those, only I don't know what 'linkback' is . . .

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Thanks Gonch. Doesn't make it any less irritating.

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"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." -Thomas Jefferson

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Ensign Smith said:
I'd click on those, only I don't know what 'linkback' is . . .

1. Linkback

2. I'm already taking the 'old' meaning and skewing it into something of my own.

See, you're already two steps behind. Evolution is passing you by.

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Ya got me there, Sir Gonch. Clearly, I am not mutating as fast as you.

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Ewww, Gonch is mutating.

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That's OK, I thought Ensign said "mutilating."

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::Waits for Gonch to change his nic to Lord Linkback::

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^^Sounds like somebody's been watching a little bit too much Zombieland.

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- Mike Roberts

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Nah, too many Trick or Treaters...we had over 500. That many kids running around loose in fake blood-covered costumes will do that to a guy.

Zombieland, by comparison, is a piece of cake.

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"I actually saw Eddie Van Halen at the Hollywood Bowl."

"Really? How is he?"

"He's a zombie."

Hysterical movie. Highly recommend, and I'm not even that much of a fan of the genre.

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I'll wait for it on one of those new-fangled DVD's.

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DVD's are so yesterday, its all about streaming these days. Now, when I can stream AND get a great picture...

Oh, and Hopman, you're much younger than me. You should know these things.

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