god violates intel trademark (thanks to richard for the link)
in response to this article the register have published god to smite reg hacks! :
One Gareth Richardson was upset with us for, he thought, exposing said religious establishment to the full legal might of the great Satan of chips.
You do realise that you are a muppet don’t you ?
There is a PHONE NUMBER on the bottom of the poster.
If I hear that they have been done over by Intel because of this, you’ll be seeing the dark side of the Lord pretty darned soon. Twat.
Gareth
Well, Gareth, thank you for your concern, but you can rest assured that it is misplaced. That phone number is not on the advertisement, it is on the hoarding, and is actually a non-location-specific UK local rate number for the hoarding company. We’d also like to give you a tip for writing threatening letters: try not to use the word ‘darned’. It undermines your credibility somewhat.
great stuff!
that is one very funny comment – cheers for putting it up. I needed a laugh first thing this morning.
Of course if they sued him over this, they would have to sue him for all those crummy knock-off christian t-shirts.
Thanks for this. It does show the power of advertising because I stopped reading the poster half way through and played that irritating dum-dum-dum-dum jingle in my head.
Isn’t this just plaigerising a classic “Geek” pastiche?:
http://www.acme.com/jef/satan/
This made me laugh for a different reason. The “t-word” is considered very rude here (Canada) – akin to the “c-word” (see you next tuesday), so it was surprising to see it in a newspaper in that particular context.
Words are funny. A couple of years ago I was talking with an Irish friend and made mention of my fanny (bum, arse, rear-end) and he almost had a fit, looking around all embarrassed to see if anyone had heard me. Even worse? Those hip sacks, a la 80’s nerd wear, are called fanny packs. I had to take him for counselling…..