As a part of its ongoing effort to retain exclusive brand licensing rights to a word that's been a part of the English language since the early seventeenth century, Politico has ordered a British website called Tory Politico to stop using the word "politico," because -- who knows? Maybe you might accidentally end up at the latter site and become confused as to why your favorite Beltway press-release mill has suddenly become obsessed with Parliament and Gordon Brown and Torchwood or something?Oh really?
I got dibs on the word "The" in blogs everywhere. Pay up, assholes. It's right there in the title.
Boycotting Politico links until they get their heads out of their asses.
Also, new blog title for a while. Neener, assmunches.
[UPDATE 11:53 AM] Bob Cesca wins the internet. Period.
Back when I had a stencil business, we had annual conventions and lots of stencil companies came to sell stuff and have our yearly business meetings. One woman who had a stencil business stood up during one of our breakfast meetings and said, "You people have to stop using our name in your businesses. We paid a lot of money to copyright this, and we're going to sue those of you who use it."
ReplyDeleteThe name? "Designer Stencils". *eyeroll*
One of my favorite stencil women stood up, took a drag off her cigarette, and said, "Ya can't copyright that name, hon. We all sell designer stencils."
At which the first woman burst into tears.
For duh.
Nice. Very nice.
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