Randomness
Jun. 22nd, 2010 07:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsI'm going light on the Internet this week in the hopes of seeing Big Bang unspoiled, but it's impossible to miss the number of links pointing out that Thinkgeek has been hit with a real cease-and-desist letter for a product that is not only fictional, but was obviously an April Fool's joke. Some lawyer had an itcy trigger finger!
But it reminded me of a story that must be, oh, 30 years old by now. The Society for Creative Anachronism has a member's magazine called Tournaments Illuminated. Many moons ago as a joke, they came out with the Tournaments Illuminated Martial Extravaganza issue mocked up to look like an illuminated version of Time magazine... and apparently someone sent a copy of the tribute to the editors of Time.
Their lawyer's response boiled down to: "Cute. But do it again and we'll sue your ass off."
Other than that... I knew when we had a Code Orange* day in April that it was going to be a hard summer. The heat index is supposed to hit 102 tomorrow.
Finally, while I was typing this, the new Dr. Pepper commercial came on. Speaking of 30 years ago, wow, nobody (including them!) would have dreamed that KISS would end up peddling soft drinks.
*air quality, not threat level
But it reminded me of a story that must be, oh, 30 years old by now. The Society for Creative Anachronism has a member's magazine called Tournaments Illuminated. Many moons ago as a joke, they came out with the Tournaments Illuminated Martial Extravaganza issue mocked up to look like an illuminated version of Time magazine... and apparently someone sent a copy of the tribute to the editors of Time.
Their lawyer's response boiled down to: "Cute. But do it again and we'll sue your ass off."
Other than that... I knew when we had a Code Orange* day in April that it was going to be a hard summer. The heat index is supposed to hit 102 tomorrow.
Finally, while I was typing this, the new Dr. Pepper commercial came on. Speaking of 30 years ago, wow, nobody (including them!) would have dreamed that KISS would end up peddling soft drinks.
*air quality, not threat level
