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'The Hobbit' Pub Threatened With Lawsuit

Posted by Soulskill on from the it-does-not-do-to-leave-lawyers-out-of-your-calculations dept.

An anonymous reader writes "'The Hobbit,' a small pub in Southampton, England, has been threatened with a lawsuit by lawyers representing the Saul Zaentz Company in California. The pub, which has traded under the name for the last 20 years without incident, now faces closure if it does not change its name. It's yet another example of big business throwing its weight around to get its way. The pub's landlady said simply, 'I can't fight Hollywood.'"

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  1. Re:Simple solution by a_nonamiss · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Terminate and Stay Resident? Am I increasing or decreasing my geek cred when I admit that's the only TSR I know?

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  2. Pull an H by goombah99 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And put up an apostrophe, it will be pronounced the same in cockney.
    the `obbit

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  3. Re:Easy! by rhook · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Are they going to sue the dictionary too?

    hobbit (hbt)

    — n
    1. one of an imaginary race of half-size people living in holes
    2. a nickname used for a very small type of primitive human, Homo floresiensis , following the discovery of remains of eight such people on the Island of Flores, Indonesia, in 2004