More good news: CP just folded.
Or, in fact, they folded on Wednesday; but the EMail they sent me was so completely buried in an uninteresting subjectline that I didn’t notice it until now.
Here’s the really funny story. The first hint that they’d folded was that I was talking to a trademark lawyer three hours ago [yes, I'm cool enough that trademark lawyers talk to me at eleven at night on Saturday] and tried WiFiing to ZOMBIE: eat flesh in the store to show him what Subway were pretending was trademark infringement. For all it matters, he agreed, based on the jpeg at http://wastedinc.com/2007/01/17/swyndlechicks, that anyone claiming that, under penalty of perjury, was risking prisontime through desperate amounts of bravery, stupidity, or both.
That I’ve since got home and found an EMail reporting that an agent of Subway alleged under penalty of perjury precisely that prevarication is at minimum amusing, to me.
So. Since I live in the US, I’m now given the choice of spending oodles of money attempting to prove my innocence in this misreported crime, or inferring with ironic humour that Subway are terrified of losing their trademark relative to selling human flesh to stupid people while otherwise letting it go and moving on to something else. And of course that’s all I can infer, since they went after my zombie parody and those of various copycats, while ignoring everything from uninspired petarded vegan shirts to Quizno’s using what appear to be ACTUAL SUBWAY WRAPPERS in adverts alerting zombies to the availability of more meat over at their place; to my thinking, that suggests a problem specifically with the element of human flesh, not the trademark itself.
That said, I’m not terribly concerned about it. As far as I care, I just do this sort of thing to get myself a shirt without having to dump large sacks of cash into buying the requisite gear and devoting thousands of square feet in the basement to the operation; those who wanted one of these shirts but never got one might learn to act a little more quickly next time something cool temporarily happens in the world.
Mostly I’m thrilled by the implication, under penalty of perjury, that I stole Subway’s trademark on ‘eat flesh’; time’ll tell if Soylent Green, Inc. accuse Subway of something out of pure karma.
More later….
–Gremlin