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ThinkGeek's Best Ever Cease-and-Desist Letter

Posted by kdawson on from the good-source-of-sparkle dept.

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.

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  1. Acronym? by Locke2005 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!"?

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    1. Re:Acronym? by arashi+sohaku · · Score: 5, Funny

      I thought SPAM stood for Squirrels, Possum, and Muskrat... could be regional...

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  2. You are all missing the real issue here! by zill · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unicorn meat is murder!

    Stop the needless killing of endangered species!

  3. Re:Good but... by rootofevil · · Score: 5, Funny

    i dunno, baconless bacon double cheeseburger doesnt look shorter to me.

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  4. Oh, c'mon! by StefanJ · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are you deliberately ignoring the fact that Slashdot's audience are rapid unicorn enthusiasts?

    1. Re:Oh, c'mon! by A+nonymous+Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Are you saying there are slow unicorn enthusiasts?

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    2. Re:Oh, c'mon! by Robin47 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Are you saying there are slow unicorn enthusiasts?

      Only impaled ones.

  5. Finally,,, by The+Other+White+Meat · · Score: 5, Funny

    my Nick is relevant to a Slashdot story.

    ThinkGeek FTW!

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  6. Re:Interesting by grcumb · · Score: 5, Funny

    How many people has the California Milk Processor Board sued for the literally hundreds of infringements of their "Got ____?" Trademark?

    Dunno. Got Citation?

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  7. Re:Good but... by blair1q · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's not got much spam in it...

  8. Re:New slogan? by sxedog · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually, in Saskatchewan the Pork Producers came up with This slogan:

    "Pork. The one you love!"

    Unfortunately, they forgot the period on the signs they marketed all over the province...

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