The issue here is that a company needs to vigorously defend its trademark claims or it risks the trademark becoming generified and a loss of registration rights.

Many companies did issue cease and desist letters and some titles were indeed pulled as a result.

It’s got calories and some trace minerals, so yes.

“To eat well in England you should eat breakfast three times a day” - W. Somerset Maugham

...filling it with a bunch of blown-up balloons—not for jumping on...

I told my father that he gave me an upbringing and an education and that was enough and to have fun and spend his last dollar on the day he dies. I expect my kids to have the same attitude.

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Thank you thank you thank you thank you...

In the spirit of Evil Week: on the day of halloween, go though the supermarket checkout with precisely two items: 1) a sack of apples, and 2) a package of razor blades.

I know the guy is somewhat “out of fashion” right now....but my favorite Bill Cosby parenting story is when he caught his son lying about something serious, and his son begged “please don’t hit me.” Cos replied with “I’m not going to hit you,” and then hit him, and when his son said “huh?”, Cos said “now you know…

The 1st Amendment says nothing whatsoever about what private entities such as HOA’s can or cannot do.

Except this is not a municipal (i.e. government entity) ban. It’s a ban by a private entity (the HOA) of which the First Amendment says nothing whatsoever.

I’ve always wondered how it would have played out if Ford had not pardoned Nixon.

Could you do a version of this but dealing with office neighbors?

Why is the rule unenforceable?

It’s been sort of done: https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Hotblack_Desiato

Great.

Rudolph? Snow Miser? Kris “if you sit on my lap today” Kringle?

Suggestion for next story: how to avoid being a serial adulterer and liar, impregnate a woman, refuse to support the resultant child, and ignore subsequent court orders to support said child until said court threatens to garnish your wages. Hint: you can use the same creep you used as the inspiration for this story.

Do you work with Zsa Zsa Gabor?