Don't use the ":-(" sign! It's illegal!

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Tue Jan 30, 2001 11:20 am

I found out this in an newspaper article.

"For the use of ':-(' you will have to deal with the site Despair.com , which insists that that the sign ':-(' is its trade-mark. Anyone who uses it will be hunted by the law for breaking its trade-mark. Despair.com sais that it has a patent N 5,443,036 for using the sign. 7 million privet users have been put on trial."

I just thought it was funny and is worth a re-post.

P.S. IMO the word "yesterday" should also be banned because it is a trade-mark of the Beatles (you know that Beatles song right?)

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Tue Jan 30, 2001 11:22 am

Now they will be looking for you because you just used ":- ("

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Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Tue Jan 30, 2001 11:26 am

NO! I guess I'm an outlaw now...

I'll go in hiding with a modem a computer and a BG2 CD...

You can call me Anne Frank from now on...

Gruntboy · Post by **Gruntboy** » Tue Jan 30, 2001 11:29 am

BG2 is copyright of interplay.

Anne Frank is copright of MacMillan books.

You're a dead man Vicsun

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Tue Jan 30, 2001 11:42 am

They won't get me alive! They won't!!!

Anyway I'm still alive. It's just that I'm in jail...

That's so sad :-(

Oh no I did it again! Aghhhhhhhhh

Gruntboy · Post by **Gruntboy** » Tue Jan 30, 2001 11:44 am

Alive is copyright of columbia tristar motion pictures...

Just watch out for the music people representing 'The The'. We're all screwed.

fallout · Post by **fallout** » Tue Jan 30, 2001 12:05 pm

Luckly i never used :-( in my posts.

oki101 · Post by **oki101** » Tue Jan 30, 2001 1:51 pm

So what.... They`ll never catch us. All we need is booze, sigarettes and a fast car ( or maybe a bigass plane with rockets and bombs... Yeah, that would be so cool)

tinytim · Post by **tinytim** » Tue Jan 30, 2001 6:07 pm

i will supply the plain & boozs yall(theres the hick in me again)will have to supply the rest

[This message has been edited by tinytim (edited 01-30-2001).]

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Tue Jan 30, 2001 6:35 pm

Thats like saying that they inveneted the question mark! Thats popostuerous! I guess that their are said people in this world.

. Oh well....

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Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Tue Jan 30, 2001 9:41 pm

Alright I have a warrant for the arrest (Dead or Alive) of...

1.Vicsun
2.Fallout
3.(Possible)Aegis

You will turn yourselves into Buck and receive your punishment.

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T'lainya · Post by **T'lainya** » Tue Jan 30, 2001 10:04 pm

Hmm, hey Weasel isn't Spam copyrighted too???

I think everyone on these boards is in trouble.

: Now I've got that damn Monty Python skit going through my head

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Tue Jan 30, 2001 10:11 pm

Alright I have a warrant for the arrest (Dead or Alive) of...

All 136 of you BG2 players

You will turn yourselves into Buck and receive your punishment.

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"Boo says Weasel is the best"

T'lainya · Post by **T'lainya** » Tue Jan 30, 2001 10:18 pm

Hehe what's the punishment? Posting "I will not spam " 100 times on all the message boards?

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Tue Jan 30, 2001 10:22 pm

I will not spam.
I will not spam.
I will not spam.
I will not spam.
I will not spam.
I will not spam.
I will not spam.
I will not spam.

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"Boo says Weasel is the best"

Alienbob · Post by **Alienbob** » Wed Jan 31, 2001 10:53 pm

here are some things that are illeagal out here in Arizona:

Hunting camels is prohibited.

Any misdemeanor committed while wearing a red mask is considered a felony.

There is a possible 25 years in prison for cutting down a cactus.

Donkeys cannot sleep in bathtubs.

When being attacked by a criminal or burglar, you may only protect yourself with the same weapon that the other person posseses.

there is a bunch more stuff like this at [url="http://www.dumblaws.com"]www.dumblaws.com[/url]

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Wed Jan 31, 2001 11:02 pm

Unlawful Bear Exploitation

I was wondering why the law has my house staked out...

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Drakron Du´Dark · Post by **Drakron Du´Dark** » Wed Jan 31, 2001 11:02 pm

Good new to all in england, see this.

Chester
You can only shoot a Welsh person with a bow and arrow inside the city walls and after midnight.
Hereford
You may not shoot a Welsh person on Sunday with a longbow in the Cathedral Close.

Liverpool

It is illegal for a woman to be topless in public except as a clerk in a tropical fish store.

London
Companies may vote in local elections.
York
Excluding Sundays, it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow.

Dont forget to buy a bow and some arrows if you are going to visit any of this citys.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

XtraniuM · Post by **XtraniuM** » Thu Feb 01, 2001 6:11 am

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Thu Feb 01, 2001 10:52 am

When I think about it I came to the conclusion that this topic should be: Locked, banned, delited and everything else that can be done to it. This is the topic with the most iliegal stuff I have seen so far (not with the most, but with the most pointed out ones). I'm wandering why this topic isn't closed yet...