scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
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Who Am I? Week #809
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Wolf
AI is here, time to obey our robot overlords!
kingchuck69
Joker! Joker! Joker!
Congratulations, Wolf!
This week's subject was Fifth Third Bank, the Cincinnati-based financial institution with 1,087 branches and 2,400 ATMS in 12 states.
The company's roots go back to the Bank of the Ohio Valley in 1858. In 1871, it was acquired by the Third National Bank. In 1908, the Third National Bank merged with the Fifth National Bank, becoming Fifth Third. The reason why it was Fifth Third and not Third Fifth was due to the prohibitionist ideas being pushed at the time.
Over the years, 5/3 aquired other banks. Recently they bought out Dallas-based Comerica Bank for $11 billion. As a result, the home of the Detroit Tigers baseball team, Comerica Park will be renamed Fifth Third Park at the start of the 2027 baseball season.
New game next week!
Channel98
Don't yell or hit.
On September 21 – Go look! – I wrote about the Tigers' ballpark being renamed Fifth Third Park. I knew why the bank that resulted from the merger of the Third National Bank and Fifth National Bank was called Fifth Third and not Third Fifth – and this week I guess I didn't remember what I wrote. Oh well. Congratulations, Wolf! You can celebrate by drinking a fifth.
HecticArt
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Opportunity lost!
JHDK
Release Robin's Bra
I'm pretty sure we have them down here and I had no idea why it was called that and I would have gone the rest of my life not knowing it. So thanks, King. I will now feel better about myself every time I pass one.
Also as always great job King and well done Viper.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
Good job Wolf! Give yourself 5/3 of a point. TBH, the name Fifth Third Bank makes about as much sense as this
That was a fun game King!
That was a fun game King!
Channel98
Don't yell or hit.
Chris Matulich opened Chris Steak House in 1927 on Broad Street in New Orleans. Ruth Fertel bought the restaurant in 1965. It was destroyed by fire in 1976 and Fertel opened a new restaurant nearby. The purchase agreement stipulated that she could not use the name Chris Steak House at any location other than the original so she called the new restaurant Ruth's Chris Steak House. To me, she used the "Chris Steak House" name in violation of the purchase agreement but apparently Matulich never objected. In 1977, franchises began to open. There are now 161 worldwide. Matulich died in 1982. Fertel died in 2002.
Here is a Florida bait and tackle store with an unusual name. I'm not sure if the name is nouns – or verbs.
Here is a Florida bait and tackle store with an unusual name. I'm not sure if the name is nouns – or verbs.
HecticArt
Administrator
There WAS a lawsuit over the name, but the judge and jury were all too confused by the opening arguments, and the case was dismissed. They all went to Outback Steakhouse for dinner as a snub to both Ruth and Chris for their poor choices in naming and punctuating their restaurants.