<VV> The price of synthetic oil...
airvair
airvair at richnet.net
Sun Mar 18 20:43:44 EST 2007
Yea, one of the few "small fish" in the pond.
-Mark
Frank DuVal wrote:
>
> However, the Olympic committee did give a local auto parts chain enough
> grief that the name was changed from
>
> Olympic Auto Parts
>
> to
>
> Olympus Auto Parts
>
> Frank DuVal
>
> airvair wrote:
>
> >Bob,
> >
> >Thanks for the legal update. Hadn't heard about it, but it figures.
> >Sounds a little like what Congress did with the name "olympic" back a
> >number of years ago. Seems the gay community was organizing an "olympic"
> >set of athletic competitions for gay athletes, and Congress got miffed
> >about it. So they passed a law that handed the USOC and IOC exclusive
> >rights to the name "olympic", which allowed the USOC/IOC to sue the Gay
> >Olympics. Ever since it's had to be called the "Gay Games." Odd though,
> >since the USOC/IOC sued almost nobody else over it. They didn't even sue
> >the Olympia Brewing Company. And they STILL haven't sued the "Special
> >Olympics", probably because the PR on it would make them look like the
> >Grinch. LOL
> >
> >-Mark
> >
> >
> >
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