Pork Pushers Protest Sale of Unicorn Meat
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Why do I have the feeling the Beef council would have seen through the charade and had a hearty laugh if the feaux-ad had satired their product instead? This is saying so much about the Pork industry that I am uncomfortable at learning.
Addendum: And yet PETA never sprouted up and said anything? This is weird.
Addendum: And yet PETA never sprouted up and said anything? This is weird.
It most certainly is, as the ThinkGeek staff explained - what's funny is the Pork Board and their legal representation somehow overlooked the bit where canned unicorn meat was an April Fools Day joke and not in fact a product for sale. They weren't protesting a comedy product using something similar to their trademark for satirical purposes, they just genuinely didn't notice it was satire and not in any way real. Somehow.dragontiers said:
Your guess is as good as mine how that is possible, heh.
I suspect there might be more to this story than the article is covering.Idlemessiah said:
While superficially silly, there must have been some reason they reacted that way. People have poked fun at/spoofed the slogan befor eI believe. For some reason they must have viewed this joke as a threat, and it makes me wonder as to why.
For example did "Thinkgeek" bait them specifically for laughs, a part of the story we're not seeing?
Okay folks, turn towards the National Pork Board and sing it with me...
"You are an idiot! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha-a ha ha ha-a ha!"
"You are an idiot! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha-a ha ha ha-a ha!"
And from this day forward, anybody working in the pork industry shall now be known as a mental deficient.
Why? Because nobody stood back and said: "Err... Unicorn's aren't real, and a lawsuit would be fucking stupid"
And even if they did, they sure's hell didn't say anything.
Why? Because nobody stood back and said: "Err... Unicorn's aren't real, and a lawsuit would be fucking stupid"
And even if they did, they sure's hell didn't say anything.
First of all, there is no chance of Unicorn meat cutting into Porks business. Because of that, secondly, this is CLEARLY parody. Think Geek would almost assuredly win the lawsuit against it.
Of course, the Pork industry probably has better lawyers then little ol' Think Geek, so they can strong arm them into dropping the advertisement, and winning back that lucrative market of people who believe in unicorns, and want to eat them as a pork substitute, and were convinced of this by an advertisement on a site that sells novel electronics. Big win there. Which is why that in any case brought to court, the respective sides should be assigned a lawyer of equal skill, with no intervention from privately hired lawyers.
Of course, the Pork industry probably has better lawyers then little ol' Think Geek, so they can strong arm them into dropping the advertisement, and winning back that lucrative market of people who believe in unicorns, and want to eat them as a pork substitute, and were convinced of this by an advertisement on a site that sells novel electronics. Big win there. Which is why that in any case brought to court, the respective sides should be assigned a lawyer of equal skill, with no intervention from privately hired lawyers.
Silly Pork Pushers, Unicorns don't exist. And even if they did, you'd have to deal with those pesky Minotaurs first. (Cookie for the game reference)
..Though on a serious note, no third party outside of this called how fucking retarded this lawsuit is, considering the basis of it? My faith in Humanity's sanity just went down a little, again.
..Though on a serious note, no third party outside of this called how fucking retarded this lawsuit is, considering the basis of it? My faith in Humanity's sanity just went down a little, again.