After eight and a half years of campaigning, I have finally received approval of my trademark of the word "the." I had originally tried to trademark the letter "e," but that seemed like so much more a struggle, and it was going nowhere.
I now owe my lawyer nearly two-and-a-half million dollars in back fees, so I'm looking to start a few lawsuits up regarding infringement of my newly acquired intellectual property.
If you really feel you cannot afford to pay me in damages, you may want to begin using the word "da" or "dee" or even "that" in place of "the." Postings prior to September 23, 2001 are safe; I am only concerned with postings containing my word that have appeared after this official announcement.
Have a nice day.
ID:193917
 Sep 23 2001, 7:21 am
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I didn't know you could copyright words like that. Maybe I'll borrow some money from my rich grandma and see about copyrighting da word "of". While I'm at it I'll try copyrighting capitalized I's, since we all know people like to talk about themselves.
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Skysaw wrote:
After eight and a half years of campaigning, I have finally received approval of my trademark of the word "the." I had originally tried to trademark the letter "e," but that seemed like so much more a struggle, and it was going nowhere. I don't know what the point of doing that is you will end up having so many lawsuits you will be hunted and shot. Ps. THE THE THE | |
hmm, me would copyright the word "dbz" but me think it already is heh, maybe if me copyright "DragoonBallZ" and people make a spelling mistake heh.
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Foomer wrote:
I didn't know you could copyright words like that. Maybe I'll borrow some money from my rich grandma and see about copyrighting da word "of". While I'm at it I'll try copyrighting capitalized I's, since we all know people like to talk about themselves. i think 'net culture is already moving against u on that one. | |
Thanks to the landmark 1993 Supreme Court ruling Decent People Everywhere vs. The State of Being Lexy, everything I do is protected under the right to parody. This might sound like it's a good thing, but as a side consequence, it's also a federal crime to take me seriously as an artist.
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Foomer wrote:
While I'm at it I'll try copyrighting capitalized I's, since we all know people like to talk about themselves. That's funny. When I was in college, one of my fellow budding social scientist sat in on my English composition class and then made a chart of how many times I had used the words "my" and "I" in my presentation compared to everyone else. This was near the beginning of the semester, when the statistics instructor was still giving assignments like "make a chart of anything," so she actually turned this in for credit. The professor gave her points for creativity, even though the difference wasn't statistically significant. | |
LexyBitch wrote:
Thanks to the landmark 1993 Supreme Court ruling Decent People Everywhere vs. The State of Being Lexy, everything I do is protected under the right to parody. This might sound like it's a good thing, but as a side consequence, it's also a federal crime to take me seriously as an artist. I hate to be the one to tell you this, but I just read over the document in question, and it seems you misread. DPE v. SBL established that everything you do is protected under the right to parity. In layman's terms, this means whatever you're allowed to do, so is everyone else. | |
That's th--uh, that which of all th... uh, those things of which I have ever heard, is th..., er, stupidest.