FUNNY?

Or simply an interesting commentary on how some people will use copyrighted material without permission (not that we are naming any names) and somehow consider themselves the wronged party?

Just askin'.

(Thanks to Dr. Pat)
(Link is fixed now; please don't tell The Blog)

Comments

[Will (the other one)]

The link, she doesn't work. Since the Blog's away, judi will have to fire herself.

[poker]

I'd love to see what this one is about

[Cheesewiz]

The link sent me to my gmail account. Is Google pirating their own IP?

[PirateBoy]

When I was in 7th grade, my creative writing teacher rather insultingly told me that "I wrote like Dave Barry". I took it as a compliment, but my teacher was not amused. Now, 40+ years later, where's my Pulitzer Prize, my DMCA take-down notice, or at least my blue shirt?

[Horace LaBadie]

Feel free to send me lots of money.

[MOTW]

PB, your blue shirt should be on the floor under the large mound of dirty laundry, made clean by the Pile System.

"I developed my laundering skills in college, where I used what laundry scientists call the Pile System, wherein you put your dirty undershorts on the floor until they form a waist-high pile, thus subjecting the bottom shorts to intense heat and pressure that causes them to become, over several months, clean enough to wear if you're desperate and spray them with Right Guard brand deodorant."

A grand artistic and well executed use of commas, if I may say so. (Perhaps that is what your misguided 7th grade creative writing teacher referred to. She probably also hated people who ended a sentence with a preposition.)

[Bill]

From reading the attorney's response it seems he was just doing his job. Trying to extort money from other people. Maybe the cartoon should have been the attorney romancing the bear.

[Elon]

Way to go, Oatmeal! Worst name for a comic ever, but I salute his gall and his sense of humor.

[Betsy]

PirateBoy....thirty years ago, when my then teenage son commented with a slight sneer that I 'wrote like Dave Barry', I pulled out a couple of columns I had published in the Chicago Daily News (R.I.P.) in 1971. He said, "Huh. So Dave Barry writes like you?"

It gave me a chance to expound on my long family history of worship at the altars of Robert Benchley, James Thurber, Stephen Leacock, Max Shulman, and S. J. Perelman. If your stupid teacher is still alive, tell her that it's not just a "writing style" - it's a Philosophy of Life. And a damned good one, too!

P.S. ...but Dave is still my favorite.

[Loudmouth]

I subscibe to The Oatmeal feed and saw this about a week ago. Most of it is foul and outrageously funny. If you have not, you should read the whole thing. Thought the donation bit was a joke, but $117,000? I do hope this sleazebag lawyer and plagiarist client get none of it. They both deserve some sweet grizzly bear lovin'.