sometimes I wish I wasn't a trademark lawyer....

[blpurdom at yahoo.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Benjamin" <jaffa276 at y...> wrote:
> 
> Ignoring the naked co-ed Quidditch: you could just remove the 
> word 'Gryffindor' (and maybe have a red and gold colour scheme) 
> Summoning charms have been used for years (in things like RPG)
> 
> >>>Or a mug that says IF REMOVED FROM GRYFFINDOR COMMON ROOM, WILL 
BE RETURNED BY AUTOMATED SUMMONING CHARM.<<< 

Heidi once said I didn't have to worry about trademark infringements 
for the Screaming Haggis T-shirts, but since the list of locations on 
the back includes Hogsmeade...is it possible that anything with the 
word "Hogsmeade" on it could be an infringement?  (Sorry for the 
Psychic Serpent reference.) 

> ...the woman at my mobile phone helpdesk insisted on using my 
> first name; not so much for the implied intimacy (though I know 
> this really_ annoys some people) but because she managed to slip it 
> in (the name) every third word or so, "Right, Benjamin when do you 
> want to use it Benjamin, I'll just set that up for you now 
> Benjamin, No, I don't know anything about that, Benjamin, are you 
> sure it was from our company? I'll just put you on hold Benjamin" 
> Well okay, every eighth word. I was called Benjamin more times in 
> that conversation than in the previous decade.  And I really don't 
> think that is hyberbole.  

Benjamin's a nice name (my son's name as well).  I'm still not 
accustomed to people calling me "Mrs. Purdom."  I think they're 
talking to my mother-in-law.  With my kids' school friends I get a 
lot of little people calling me "Benjaminsmom" and "Rachelsmom" like 
they're all one word.

Clearly you were dealing with an AWOL Stepford Wife <g>.  Or you 
could have checked the garden behind the establishment, to see how 
many more pod-people were still growing back there...

--Barb