Sale of unicorn meat blocked by legal action

[bunsen_h]

Or... something.

What would you call it, anyway?  SPORN?

Comments

[con-girl.livejournal.com]

OMG LOL ROTF

THat is soooooo funny it brought tears to my eyes. Thank you :)

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

If the Pork People's legal group were sane, competent, informed, and professional, shouldn't they have said something like "Willard, it's a joke. A cease-and-desist is unnecessary and would be futile."?

[con-girl.livejournal.com]

I suspect that the firm is demonstrating that they are doing their due diligence - checking multiple medias for trademark use. Yes, they should have looked a little more closely, but it is completely conceivable that there IS a novelty food called "unicorn meat." I have a can of Romulan Ale.

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

They claim that they are obliged to do this kind of thing to protect their trademark. Is that true? I can understand needing to control uses of their actual trademarked phrase, but do they need to stamp out similar parody phrases such as "The new white meat", "The other white milk", etc.?

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

Here we go again. Why did the Pork Board not bother to **check** and see that this was an "April Fool" joke?

Methinks someone has NO sense of humor.

[i-and-t.livejournal.com]

this was very funny--I agree with con-girl's outburst of letters!

i.

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

I heard the head of PR from ThinkGeek interviewed on As It Happens this evening. That link should soon have links to let you listen to the interview.

"Hufu -- the new long meat."

[utsi.livejournal.com]

not sure i can get past the sparkles :)