I assuage my guilt for eating at CFA by getting lots of refills on the lemonade so it cuts into their profit margins.

I agree that with those qualifications a trademark claim is less likely to succeed, but trademarks do occasionally get enforced against non-commercial infringers.

Off the top of my head, depending on how comprehensively you replicated UPS’ color scheme and logo, you could be liable for trademark infringement. (UPS owns a trademark in the particular shade of brown for their trucks, plus the logo itself is trademarked, of course.)

Because animé?

People have lost the ability to comprehend the ideas of “daylight saving time” and “standard time” and thus constantly use the term “standard time” to describe a time zone without regard to whether daylight saving time is in effect.

Wow, fantastic footage!

Americans?  I know, right?

Sadly, he’s gone and I can’t jump to the Jalop rescue with an awesome story that my grandfather shared about some dude he knew from a weekly shop foreman poker game and how he once dumped a bunch of transmissions at a different factory in order to get some jerk in trouble.

but this is a children’s literature award, and children’s literature should be free from racism. That’s a pretty logical place to draw the line.

this gold on gold

Sounds like a good companion book to the eight-page pop-up version of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex I’m working on now.

Imagine a book for boys with 10-12 mini-biographies of bold, sassy men through history.

I would say that this was inspired by a certain scene with Gilda Radner from the film First Family, but I highly doubt this young lady has seen it....

That’s swell, but were people concerned that Netflix was going to pull it just because he committed suicide or something?

No, men never argue with each other on the internet about their relative degrees of knowledge on a subject. It is known.

Not quite. It means, “any time a guy tries to explain anything to a woman.”

If someone wants to publicly crow about how a woman brilliantly pwned some stupid man, then it’s certainly fair to point out objectively verifiable facts that show the woman was, in fact, wrong about part of the alleged pwnage.

How else can you explain how Holly Golightly got reclaimed as an aspirational style icon when the film tells us over and over again that she’s an inherently tragic figure?

Also—this is the first, and I hope the last time I ever hear anyone refer to this movie as a proto Sex and the City.

All is Lost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Is_Lost