The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[J.Quondam]

so because Disney still uses PART of the steamboat Willie Micky mouse, it will be very tricky to figure out how you can do anything with him.

Fwiw, Duke Law School's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has put up an essay specifically about Steamboat Willie as part of their Public Domain Day post for this year.

 

[overgeeked]

Fwiw, Duke Law School's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has put up an essay specifically about Steamboat Willie as part of their Public Domain Day post for this year.

Yeah. It's going to be...interesting...to see Disney's response to all the new Mickey Mouse stuff coming out next year. The linked article is great, but I don't think it will make things much clearer for most people. The interaction between copyright and trademark law has always been muddled and confusing.

 

[Umbran]

This year, the MIL put on A Muppet Christmas Carol, and it occurred to me: they made that and Muppet Treasure Island, but that was it as far as adapting classic novels. They really should have done a Muppet Gulliver's Travels, and maybe a Muppet Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea or The Muppets Around The World in Eighty Days. Those could have been fantastic! This has been my Modest Muppet Proposal...

You might want to look up a series - The Storyteller (aka Jim Henson's The Storyteller), currently streaming on the Roku Channel and Peacock, I believe.

 

[Umbran]

Is this the laws of fizziks?

I wouldn't know.

There was a time once, when my wife and I were sitting with some large group of people - it may have been in a con suite or room party at a convention. And Jeff Foxworthy was on the TV, and he did a bit that went like this:

"But I have found that, because women are complicated, they like to think men are complicated too.

You ever hear a group of women talking to each other, 'Ooo, I wish I knew, what he was really thinking!'

Ladies I will tell you, what we're really thinking: We're really thinking, 'I'd like a beer and I'd like to see something naked.' That's all we're thinking."

My wife, sitting on my lap, turns to me and asks, loud enough so that everyone in the room can hear, "Honey, is that true? Is that what you are thinking?"

I replied, deadpan, "Darling, you know full well I don't like beer!"

 

[trappedslider]

Fwiw, Duke Law School's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has put up an essay specifically about Steamboat Willie as part of their Public Domain Day post for this year.

Thank you for it as it points out the exact snippet of Steamboat Willie I was talking about

 

[CleverNickName]

Sometimes I have to literally turn off my monitor to keep from writing "WELL MAYBE YOU SHOULD PLAY D&D WITH YOUR FRIENDS, KEVIN. YOU KNOW, PEOPLE YOU ACTUALLY LIKE."

 

[R_J_K75]

Maybe give schlitz to your neighbors. Having one or two of those with the neighbors may send a message!

I think Piels is even better

Give O'Douls to your neighbors....

Or, recognize that you need to set boundaries with your neighbors. Stop telling them you have a beer horde - tell them you are cutting down for the new year (not a full lie - you are cutting down what they drink, after all). When they visit, bring out what you're willing to give up, and that's all they get.

By nature over the last 35+ years, my house has always been the go-to for a party, no one is going to believe I don't have a fridge full of beer. I actually did say something on Christmas night, I had a fridge full, and the one neighbor asked if I had enough beer for the three of us and I kind of gave a non-answer, so she ended up Doordashing an 18 pack over, which she left half in the fridge. Rule number one at my house, you leave beer in my fridge its mine so don't expect it to be there when you come back because I'm drinking it post haste.

Never tell your neighbors about beer you are not OK with their drinking, at least until/unless they start showing up with beer, or maybe chipping into your beer fund.

This is a more recent development and they used to bring their own beer and I've never been stingy with mine but now that it's happening on a regular basis it is getting annoying and more expensive. It's not a big deal just venting I suppose, but I have said something to them about it within the last month or so.

 

[trappedslider]

Either I'm on ignore or no one wants to acknowledge what I've pointed out because it doesn't go with the intentions behind the OP oh well

 

[ScottDeWar_jr]

Either I'm on ignore or no one wants to acknowledge what I've pointed out because it doesn't go with the intentions behind the OP oh well

Has anyone seen any posts by trapped slider lately?

 

[billd91]

Has anyone seen any posts by trapped slider lately?

Who??