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Old 02-16-2008, 11:22 AM   #11 (permalink)
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I am reminded of the scene in the movie Mulholland Falls, where the four members of the "Hat Squad" of the 1940's L.A. detectives took a gangster from Chicago for a ride. He asked them where they were going, and they told him: "Mulholland Falls". He said there was no falls in L.A. They drove to the top of a bluff overlooking L.A. and threw him off the hill. Then they drove around to the bottom of the bluff and found him lying there in pretty bad shape. They told him that this will always be his way back to Chicago.
As should be the fate of those who insist on weirding-off in public under the guise of "freedom of speech." Fuck their rights! Nobody gives a fuck about mine, and, I even pay taxes.
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Old 02-16-2008, 11:24 AM   #12 (permalink)
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I'm offended by that remark...I think...I really not sure.
Are you a weird freak demanding your right to weird-off in public? If not, you should take no offense to the post.
Old 02-16-2008, 11:42 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Are you a weird freak demanding your right to weird-off in public? If not, you should take no offense to the post.
I don't think so. I guess I'm OK.
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'Naked Cowboy' Sues for $6 Million - AOL News

Another nutty lawsuit forthcoming. Sheesh!!!!
I beg to differ. This guy does own the rights to his creative work in making "The Naked Cowboy" a New York icon.

M&M Mars most certainly pays out millions of advertising bucks each year. Why should they be able to profit off something that this guy created without compensating him?

$6 million may seem excessive but if they had offered him compensation in the first place instead of using his idea without permission then they probably would have gotten off much cheaper. Now they have courts and lawyers involved so the price tag goes up.

Not to mention that they will probably settle for much under $6 million but much over what they would have paid if he had asked for, say, $1 million.
Right now America spends $700 billion every year on foreign oil. That's our money going overseas when it could be staying here. We have to stop this.
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Old 02-16-2008, 12:04 PM   #15 (permalink)
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I beg to differ. This guy does own the rights to his creative work in making "The Naked Cowboy" a New York icon.

M&M Mars most certainly pays out millions of advertising bucks each year. Why should they be able to profit off something that this guy created without compensating him?

$6 million may seem excessive but if they had offered him compensation in the first place instead of using his idea without permission then they probably would have gotten off much cheaper. Now they have courts and lawyers involved so the price tag goes up.

Not to mention that they will probably settle for much under $6 million but much over what they would have paid if he had asked for, say, $1 million.
After reading the article, I agree. MM Mars is screwed. $6 million for a local performer is kinda steep IMHO though. I've never head of the guy. We'll see where it goes.
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It's really simple. Some guy in his skivvies shows up on your town's main street with a guitar and tries to attract attention and money. Most of the townsfolk decide they do not want him to do that in their town. He gets the shit beat out of him and leaves the town never to return.

Puh-leese! I live in a small town and we used to have our very own crazy nearly naked guy.

They sent him to the area mental hospital every few months where he would stay for about six weeks then come home, strip to his underwear, go downtown and act weird. Then they would send him to the area mental hospital.....ad infinitum.

He finally died -- complications of diabetes, I think.
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Puh-leese! I live in a small town and we used to have our very own crazy nearly naked guy.

They sent him to the area mental hospital every few months where he would stay for about six weeks then come home, strip to his underwear, go downtown and act weird. Then they would send him to the area mental hospital.....ad infinitum.

He finally died -- complications of diabetes, I think.
They were too nice. If they would have beat the shit out of him, he probably wouldn't have kept coming back.
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I beg to differ. This guy does own the rights to his creative work in making "The Naked Cowboy" a New York icon.

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There is such a gray area when defining "creative work" and just plain weirding off.
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They were too nice. If they would have beat the shit out of him, he probably wouldn't have kept coming back.
Beating someone because their ideas and values differ from yours solves no problem, PN; it only brings more problems for the assaulter. Does anyone think they should just assault their boss at work because they disagree with them? What would be the result?
If the person suffering from mental defect; what would happen to the assaulter?Why not just follow legal procedure and arrest the person? A competency hearing could have the person commited to a mental institution if need be.If no mental incapacitation existed;why not put this person in the general prison population for say; six months in a state prison? The inmates would probably give the wierdo a better lesson in sex education than you or I could ever do.
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Beating someone because their ideas and values differ from yours solves no problem, PN; it only brings more problems for the assaulter. Does anyone think they should just assault their boss at work because they disagree with them? What would be the result?
If the person suffering from mental defect; what would happen to the assaulter?Why not just follow legal procedure and arrest the person? A competency hearing could have the person commited to a mental institution if need be.If no mental incapacitation existed;why not put this person in the general prison population for say; six months in a state prison? The inmates would probably give the wierdo a better lesson in sex education than you or I could ever do.
I'm not talking about someone whose ideas and values differ from mine. I talking about just plain and simple weirding off. Tolerance has its limitations too. Beating the shit out of someone can solve more problems than you think.
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