[SpamCop-List] Re: Marjolein's current travel blog

[Mike Easter]

Firewoman wrote:
> I was just trying to get ya to say "polo" (or Ralph Lauren) ;)

Yabbut, now that I /like/ the joke/cartoon, I wanted to tell it!

Of course, that cartoon tells you a little bit about where Bill Amend's
'mind is at' - the joke now strikes me as a satire on
copyright/trademark issues - and Paige, queen of the mall, is perhaps
jaded a bit beyond her tender 15 years.  Amend assumes that we all know
or agree that trademark/copyright issues are way overboard and a
complete disaster, and that we've been keeping up with them and haven't
forgotten Polo Ralph Lauren's aggressive stance over the years.  [Ralph
Lauren started making Polo ties back in 1967.]

Amend, 42, was an Eagle Scout, president of his hs math club, honors
graduate in physics from Amherst, and founder of an Amherst weekly
alternative campus newspaper.  Of course he's had a lot of publications
of his cartoons.   Pic
http://images.amuniversal.com/ups/features/foxtrot/amend_bill_180.jpg

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Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin