And I myself will be wearing pink taffeta as chenille would not go with my complexion.

Giles ,'Touched'


Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


tommyrot - Sep 15, 2010 8:11:34 am PDT #23998 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Lego loses trademark battle

The Lego brick, one of the most instantly recognised toys in the world, cannot be trademarked, European judges have ruled.

The Danish toymaker's basic red plastic brick was the building block for a global toy-industry success. The brick's shape was registered as an EU trademark in 1999.

But the rival Canadian maker Mega Brands successfully appealed to the EU's trademark office to cancel Lego's trademark. The experts decreed that a brick was a technical shape which could not be trademarked.

Lego, claimed the company's lawyers, contains characteristics that set it apart. But the judges ruled that keeping the Lego trademark on the brick design created a monopoly on what amounted to a functional shape.

So I guess this means any company can make little plastic bricks that work with Lego bricks... in Europe, at least.


§ ita § - Sep 15, 2010 8:11:46 am PDT #23999 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Ah, no jeans this Friday. Sad now.

Mystifying studio portrait photos.


tommyrot - Sep 15, 2010 8:25:53 am PDT #24000 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

So, my kitty survived the second attempt to remove her broken canine tooth, which was successful. (The previous attempt (eta: about a month ago) resulted in respiratory arrest from the anesthesia.)

She'll need pain meds for several days, but she's doing fine.


tommyrot - Sep 15, 2010 8:30:18 am PDT #24001 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Speaking of dental surgery (but for humans), this Hyperbole and a Half had me LOLing:

The Party

Neatorama sez:

You know this is going to be funny. Allie Brosch tells about the time she had oral surgery the same day as a friend’s birthday party. Part of the account reminds me of the viral video David After Dentist, except of course things get much worse.


Jesse - Sep 15, 2010 8:44:09 am PDT #24002 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm sorry, but is it really called a canine tooth on a cat???


sumi - Sep 15, 2010 8:45:03 am PDT #24003 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

Yes.


Burrell - Sep 15, 2010 8:50:50 am PDT #24004 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Happy birthday, Nora!


Jesse - Sep 15, 2010 8:53:42 am PDT #24005 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I guess it's not technically any weirder than calling it a canine tooth on a person, but... cats and dogs! Living together!


Scrappy - Sep 15, 2010 8:54:21 am PDT #24006 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

cats and dogs! Living together!

In a cat's MOUTH!


bon bon - Sep 15, 2010 8:54:27 am PDT #24007 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I'm sorry, but is it really called a canine tooth on a cat???

You've got some of those too, you know.

eta: a day late...