Leonard Riggio Puns

Preface..

-->GameStop traces its roots to Babbage's, a Dallas, Texas-based software retailer founded in 1984 by former Harvard Business School classmates James McCurry and Gary M. Kusin.[4] The company was named after Charles Babbage[5] and opened its first store in Dallas's NorthPark Center with the help of Ross Perot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameStop

-->Babbage's merged with Software Etc., an Edina, Minnesota-based retailer that specialized in personal computing software, to create NeoStar Retail Group in 1994.[8][9] The merger was structured as a stock swap.

Babbage's founder and chairman James McCurry became chairman of NeoStar, while Babbage's president Gary Kusin and Software Etc. President Daniel DeMatteo retained their respective titles. Software Etc. chairman Leonard Riggio became chairman of NeoStar's executive committee. source>

-->November 1996 the assets of NeoStar were purchased for $58.5 million by Leonard Riggio, a founder of Software Etc. and chairman and principal stockholder of Barnes & Noble.

-->In October 1999, Barnes & Noble Booksellers purchased Babbage's Etc. for $215 million.[15] Because Babbage's Etc. was principally owned by Leonard Riggio, who was also Barnes & Noble's chairman and principal shareholder, a special committee of independent directors of Barnes & Noble Booksellers evaluated and signed off on the deal.[16] A few months later, in May 2000, Barnes & Noble acquired Funco, the owner of Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based video game retailer FuncoLand, for $160 million.[17] Babbage's Etc., which had been previously operating as a direct subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, became a wholly owned subsidiary of Funco.[18] With its acquisition of Funco,[19] Barnes & Noble also acquired Game Informer, a video game magazine that was first published in 1991.[20] Funco was renamed GameStop, Inc. in December 2000 in anticipation of holding an initial public offering for the company.[7][21]

In February 2002, the company once again became a public company via an initial public offering.[22] Barnes & Noble retained control over the newly public company with 67% of outstanding shares and 95% of voting shares. Barnes & Noble retained control over GameStop until October 2004, when it distributed its 59% stake in GameStop to stakeholders of Barnes & Noble, making it an independent company.

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ll take the downvotes and say I disagree, the GME logo has gone White. Ok, I googled GameStop logo history and realized that they did in fact have a white logo on black background before, but only for 1 year. Back in 1999 Barnes n noble owned Gamestop and in that transition they created an all-white logo on a black background. Then Barns later on at the beginning on 2000 acquired or bought a company called Funco. At this point Funco was renamed GameStop because Barns was planning splitting off GameStop into a company with a new ticker simple / as a NEW IPO.

Maybe they’re doing the same right now… Maybe history is repeating itself and they’ve changed the logo White and will soon release a new logo / new ticker / and force all the current shares to transfer to the new ticker symbol… after all, one of the exects did NOT say that they were an ecommerce company, not a gaming company, what he said was that they were now a technology company,… AKA maybe we’ll get something like GameStop Technology - GMET

TLDR: If history repeats itself then GameStop logo didn't go black - it went WHITE and the last time this happened was for only 1 year in 1999-2000 when they were owned by Barns (N) Nobel.... In 2000 Barns NN acquired Funco in and then changed the name of Funco to GameStop and broke it off into a new company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameStop#Barnes_&Noble_Booksellers(1999%E2%80%932004)

Barnes & Noble Booksellers (1999–2004)

In October 1999, Barnes & Noble Booksellers purchased Babbage's Etc. for $215 million.[14] Because Babbage's Etc. was principally owned by Leonard Riggio, who was also Barnes & Noble's chairman and principal shareholder, a special committee of independent directors of Barnes & Noble Booksellers evaluated and signed off on the deal.[15] A few months later, in May 2000, Barnes & Noble acquired Funco, the owner of Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based video game retailer FuncoLand, for $160 million.[16] Babbage's Etc., which had been previously operating as a direct subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, became a wholly owned subsidiary of Funco.[17] With its acquisition of Funco,[18] Barnes & Noble also acquired Game Informer, a video game magazine that was first published in 1991.[19] Funco was renamed GameStop, Inc. in December 2000 in anticipation of holding an initial public offering for the company.[6][20]

In February 2002, the company once again became a public company via an initial public offering.[2

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For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

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Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

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" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

You take away their little brooms

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Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

When I got home, they were still there.

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

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There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

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So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."

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Notices there's only 2;

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I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.

I was just sitting there doing nothing.

“BOOM”?!

"That's what they're fighting about."

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