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[oakenguy]

Is there any way to copyright the phrase "I'm seeing 2020" so that I get a penny every time someone uses it? It just hit me that in about 12 years, that's going to become one of the most overused media lines ever.

I'm almost tempted to get a head start on abusing it by having a 2020 party and asking guests to come as celebrities or fashion victims from the future.

Hmm. "President Cruise". Hmm.


Anyhow. This weekend I helped celebrate heavenscalyx's birthday by eating amazing food and dealing with my hardest role-playing challenge ever: playing a totally mundane, vanilla college student hanging out with three sci-fi/fantasy geeks. It hurt my brain!

Sunday was a trip up north for an afternoon with my family, and, well, maybe it's time to scale back to seeing them once every two months, is all I'll say. The whole "lunch and a movie" visit sort of falls apart when a) you're told there's not really time for lunch, and b) after you get to the theater and buy your ticket, they decide they want to see a different movie. And then rush off afterwards for bingo. For this I drove four hours?

Oh, and as long as I'm complaining about really minor things... the movie I saw had a sound problem that made it seem like someone had a lawnmower going behind the screen. And on the way home, the Maine NPR station broadcast this bizarrely long and detailed disclaimer before and during 'This American Life' that made it sound like we were about to hear a story about heroin-snorting goat-rapists on the high seas as told by the nuns who ravaged them, and only by turning off the radio immediately, burning the radio in an open field and then deafening your children would you be able to protect them from being scarred for life by even hearing the title of the show.

And I feel like I'm still not doing justice to how over-the-top this warning was.

Comments

[malterre.livejournal.com]

Hey that means WE get to see more of you!
Will miss you this weekend!
*hug*

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

I'll be missing you! You're going to rock, of course.

(And feel free to keep me on speeddial if you need to vent. ;) )

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

You rose to the challenge admirably! I knew you could handle it. And Ashley and Dave were so cute together!

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Hee! The casting was inspired.

To echo something callunav said, it *is* disturbing how deep your rp sessions sink into my brain. I spent the whole ride home thinking about Ashley's Nature and Demeanor, and how her future goals complement (and where they divurge from) the other party members.

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

*blink blink* I'm flattered! And yet interestingly disturbed. I seem to have weirded out all my players. :)

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Oh no!!

It hurts, not being able to think of you as pure as the driven snow. Time to go scrape the 'WWM_BD?' bumper sticker off my car.

This particular TAL episode (they play it in front of ALL of them) involved some friends getting shipwrecked on a little island within sight of Manhattan, a New Orleans native who went on one of the 'Katrina Bus Tours', and a chocolate factory in Chicago that's in trouble with the EPA for putting too much cocoa powder into the air and making their neighborhood smell nice.

By contrast, the 'Wait Wait Don't Tell Me' episode (which DIDN'T have a warning) used the word "scrotum". I nearly drove off the road.

[snowwand.livejournal.com]

I heard that one! It was so weird...


Who knew that sharks lived in New York?

[vozeatscake.livejournal.com]

By contrast, the 'Wait Wait Don't Tell Me' episode (which DIDN'T have a warning) used the word "scrotum". I nearly drove off the road.

Eww! Who said it? Don't tell me it was Karl Cassel. I'll just die if was him.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

It was actually the answer to a news question! Apparently a very popular book for teens is being banned from certain libraries and being treated like a paperback Gomorrah because it contains that word.

[cindywho.livejournal.com]

That scary Ira. I'm downloading that episode now :)

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

We'll ride that hellbound train together. :)

[ursula-lear.livejournal.com]

Copyright is from creation, so you already have copyright, but there's no registry for copyrights the same way as patents and trademarks. The best you can do is have a way to establish that you created it first, and you didn't snick it from somewhere else, then pray that everyone attributes it to you.

OTOH, you can register it as a trademark for a good or service. I'm seeing 2020 chocolates? *one Japanese manga sweat/teardrop*