Wow, what a week! Glad this one is over.
It was recently the Epiphany celebration in the Eastern Churches…so get blessed, take a cold dunk in a frozen river or lake, and grab a shot of vodka on your way to the sauna! Leave the negatives in the water and relax, ease into the weekend
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Its been a tough week. Let us reflect on the following words:
そして、このオープンのスレッドをお楽しみくださいいつも他人を尊重する, as it were.
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Phoebe-Dog had a message for you all…but she fell asleep on the couch.
TGIF…get your favorite beverage and kick you shoes off, its the Friday Drinking thread featuring one of my favorite animals, the Shankapotomus…this particular Shankapotomus is of the Ombamia Shankapotus line, a branch from the larger Shankapotomus tree. Found mostly in upscale clubs either buying the membership with other people’s money or guilting the club for a gratis country membership, this wily breed is easily identified by a lack of documented personal history, cheating on the golf course, and by the unnatural and uncomfortable swing that they employ in the wild. If you see this Shankapotus on the course or in the clubhouse, notify the Club President or the Club Secretary, move away slowly, hide your wallet and your medical insurance card:
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This video is not a shankapotomus:
So, we’ll see you all at the bar in the clubhouse for drinks!
Tonight’s club special is the M Winter martini:
1.5 oz appel stoli
1.5 oz stoli 100
dash of sweet vermout
stir vigorously with ice, pour into frozen martini glass, garnish with a Vietnamese Cinnamon stick.
enjoy
Regards,
-Coldwarrior
President, BGGCC
Awards Committee Chair
I’m happy to report that there is at least one thing that intellectual property lawyers haven’t been able to lock down. Not yet, anyway. It’s the contents of our drink glasses.
The Atlantic is a typical proggy MSM rag, and it’s always fun to see it discredited by someone who has done some actual research in the field.
Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Sep 02, 2010 at 11:44AM
This Tuesday, an article appeared on the Atlantic.Com called The Era of Copyrighted Cocktails? Back in July, writer Chantal Martineau attended a seminar about protecting intellectual property at Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans. The seminar was the intellectual property of Eben Freeman, a NYC barman who used to make drinks at the now-defunct Tailor in Manhattan. Freeman, an undisputed pioneer in the industry, feels that his ideas have been unjustly ganked by his cocktail-making colleagues.
“Someone needs to get sued,” Freeman told Martineau, “to set a precedent.” That intrigued me, but the article didn’t really investigate how such a lawsuit would work. So I called a lawyer, William Ferron of the Seed intellectual property Law Group in Seattle, and asked him.
“Sue for what?” asked Ferron. “There really isn’t protection for a drink recipe, so I don’t see this type of suit being cost effective or productive.”
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