"I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less."
8 June 2003Deal on the tableTwo of the largest furniture retailers in Oklahoma City will be brought together under a single corporate roof. Mathis Brothers (3434 West Reno), which already owns four stores (with four different names) in the area, is acquiring majority control of Evans (SW 3 and Portland, three blocks away) for an undisclosed sum. No substantive changes are planned at Evans, which will retain its separate identity; for the TV viewer, this means that every ten minutes or so, if you're not seeing a commercial for one, you're seeing a commercial for the other. The Mathises, even with this acquisition, are a long way from controlling the local furniture market, however, and the merger will not have any problems sailing through the FCC (Federal Chair Commission). So, who chairs that commission? Or are they all chairs? What happens when someone wants to table a motion? Posted by: McGehee at 8:25 AM on 8 June 2003No one has ever seen the chair of the commission; some say it's because he's reclusive, but I suspect he's just a La-Z-Boy. I seem to recall "urban legends" about the Mathis brothers in the mid-80s...something involving small rodents...of course, to a teenager, it sounded Absolutely Positively True. Posted by: David at 2:51 PM on 8 June 2003No local emergency room has any record of these things, but of course those records were suppressed to protect the wealthy and powerful. :) One local news guy (and probably not the one you think) was busted during a Will Rogers Park cruise, though what he was supposedly doing required him to turn cruise control off, if you know what I mean. Somewhere, I still have a printout of the GerbiLounger drawing. And I suspect I still have the disk the file was on, too.... Posted by: Morham at 7:52 PM on 8 June 2003Geez, maybe I'll be able to unload this 5.25-inch drive after all. :) |