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No, I will not sign for that, uh... package
Randy Cassingham's weekly This is True newsletter highlights the stuff that's so bizarre that it couldn't be made up. It's quite funny, and I recommend that you subscribe. This week he writes of a conflict between UPS and BeProud, maker of the "American Heroes" line of gay action figures:
"The United Parcel Service is threatening to sue California-based BeProud, a "leading retailer of gay products," over the retailer's newest addition to its "American Heroes" action figure line: the $49.95 "Billy Parcel Service" doll. "This particular product is a very clear infringement on our trademark," complained a UPS spokesman. "It's not a generic policeman. It's not a generic fireman. It's very explicitly a UPS delivery man and that's an unacceptable use of our brand." The courier's lawyer notes that the product is advertised as "'anatomically complete' and ...is grotesquely so." BeProud says UPS "should be flattered." (National Post Canada) ...Now now -- you both should know that what counts isn't the size of the package being delivered."When the lawyer said "'anatomically complete' and ...is grotesquely so," they weren't just whistling dixie. Randy's online story about it has a picture of the doll fully clothed, which can be clicked on to reveal a staggeringly large, uh... package. I may be scarred for life.
:: Keith 09:59 [link] :: ::