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ThinkGeek's Best Ever Cease-and-Desist Letter
ThinkGeek, sister company to Slashdot, received a meticulously researched (except on one point) 12-page cease-and-desist letter from the National Pork Board. What had the meat lobbyists up in arms was an April Fools product from the TG catalog: Radiant Farms Canned Unicorn Meat, whose copy included the line "the new white meat." The NPB figured this was confusingly similar to their trademarked "the other white meat" (an advertising slogan the pork industry is considering retiring anyway). Geeknet, parent company of Thinkgeek and Slashdot, issued a press release apologizing for any confusion; you can read it on ThinkGeek's site (PDF), because the newswires refused to distribute it for some reason. Oh, and ThinkGeek has no intention of taking down the protected parody.
SPAM is a contraction of SPiced hAM; what is the acronym for Canned Unicorn Meat? Have they considered changing the slogan to "Enjoy some tasty CUM today!"?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
*facepalm*
Unicorn meat is murder!
Stop the needless killing of endangered species!
Actually, there's a shorter name for those.
DRM: Terminator crops for your mind!
i dunno, baconless bacon double cheeseburger doesnt look shorter to me.
turn up the jukebox and tell me a lie
So what are they planning on replacing "Pork: The other white meat" with?
Pork: Hardly anybody gets Trichinosis these days!
Pork: Now with Bacon!
Pork: You know you love to do it!
Pork: If you were a Christian, you could be eating it now!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Are you deliberately ignoring the fact that Slashdot's audience are rapid unicorn enthusiasts?
my Nick is relevant to a Slashdot story.
ThinkGeek FTW!
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How many people has the California Milk Processor Board sued for the literally hundreds of infringements of their "Got ____?" Trademark?
Dunno. Got Citation?
Crumb's Corollary: Never bring a knife to a bun fight.
It's not got much spam in it...
pretty sure people are red meat
Only if you're native American. I'm not so sure about the rest of us.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
I'ld like to read a transcript of the phone call where they told them unicords don't exist.
... and that lawyers always get easily confused (like confusing the word "new" with the word "other"). Numerous surveys have been conducted and found that less than 2% of the public gets these two words confused, while 44% of those on drugs, and 73% of lawyers, will get these two words confused.
The moral of the story is that lawyers always get confused, so you have to always write all text in legalese.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
Son,
Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Yours truly,
Flying Sky Daddy
My cock is the other white meat. And if you rub it it even makes its own gravy.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
Contrary to some popular opinions, The Pork Board is not nearly as humorous entity as some are made to believe it is.
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I agree, trademark laws should be loosened, or lost altogether. I'm at a loss to explain how I came to that decision though... I may just lose my mind. If that should happen, I pray they don't turn me loose on the unsuspecting public.