What a load of Globaloney!!
August 5th 2007 06:04
I was all excited for a minute, I was reading a magazine and found a great new word: Globaloney The questions flowed, what does it mean? Who made it up? How can I use it? Imagine the metaphors and double entents in everything I write, how cool, how clever, how much fun......then I saw it is trademarked. What does this mean trademarking a word? Does this mean I can't use it in a sentence or a title, what am I supposed to do, pay the person who made it up every time I use it. How the hell can you trademark a word?
I'll have to admit, I hesitated before writing this post, I mean should I quikly run out and trademark the alphabet before I tell the world of Orble that words are now trademarked and if you don't get in first all words will be out of reach to you. Imagine the trading going on, I'll l end you my "and" for your "the", no you can't have the capital "T" today I've sold it to the Financial Reveiw for an entire year.
Is it just me or is this absurd, trademarking a word? Je ne comprendez pas. or whatever the french say....do French people trademark words?
I am going to sleep on this before I write my post on Globaloney, maybe the owner will contact me so I can get some clarity.....
I'll have to admit, I hesitated before writing this post, I mean should I quikly run out and trademark the alphabet before I tell the world of Orble that words are now trademarked and if you don't get in first all words will be out of reach to you. Imagine the trading going on, I'll l end you my "and" for your "the", no you can't have the capital "T" today I've sold it to the Financial Reveiw for an entire year.
Is it just me or is this absurd, trademarking a word? Je ne comprendez pas. or whatever the french say....do French people trademark words?
I am going to sleep on this before I write my post on Globaloney, maybe the owner will contact me so I can get some clarity.....
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The sounds of silence....no more blogging or talking or laughing or doing or playing or loving or hearts breaking...ain't it all a bleedin' shame!
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Create a word to define a political stance.
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...that's just plain LUDICROUS ....(My word).. I paid for it, get your own!!!...*lol*
/seriously/ I s'pose that if the name is going to be the title of a political manouvre or utlimately a product like Tinkerbelle's (dolls)... they can trademark away?
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Lilla, yes LUDICROUS is the word, oh can i use it or did you quickly trademark it while I was sleeping........
Kayzzzzzz yes, there will be silence, the internet will be contraban and we will all be criminals, then they'll trademark the thoughts in our heads and all there will be left to do is eat and sleep as long as we don't think about it
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hhmmm maybe we could all become millionaires by coming up with new words!
I heard a little while ago about a company wanting to trademark 'Yellow' - fair enough it was the intended name of their company but can you imagine the problems that would cause? Can you trade mark a colour?
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And LaraM yes we should all make up words for the cash, tho I am thinking it might be more profitable for me to quickly trademark something indispensible like AND or THE or I ...that way no-one will be able to write a sentence without me....forget the money, imagine the power!!
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Comment by Nickoftime's Sanity Corner
sorry for the late post, but I didn't realize I hadn't subscribed to all of your blogs!
Lmfao!
Oh well, uh...gee, do I have to pay ya now for saying the word Globaloney!?
How utterly ridiculous! How the hell do you 'trademark' a damned word!?
*rolls eyes*
Great post! Count me in as a new subscriber!
Tkae care,
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You may of course buy the rights to and, the or I for the very tidy sum of $50 per word per year....
See you in Globaloney court.........
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Rotflmfao...nice try, but uh...no! I'll have my lawyer call your lawyer and we'll do lunch ok?
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See you in court counselor!
Take care,
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Comment by Mountain Fog
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They can have the friggin word! Who wants to use it anyway?
They should pay us for inadvertently reading the grotesque and globular polysyllabic monstrosity!
However, if the extreme right wing...like our Federal Government, gets wind of this, maybe they will try and own every word or phrase of dissent?
Well, if they did, it would at least cause protestors to get creative with their adjectives and derisive statements I guess.
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