Baby Toupee guy corrects me!
In my last post, I referenced a new product apparently out -- toupees for babies. Apparently it's supposed to be a jokey thing, but dammit, babies and pets are not dolls and I HATE seeing 'em dressed up like they were freakin' toys. It's just stupid. It's for people who read Marmaduke.
queenofattolia mentioned there was a similar SNL skit and said she thought they'd ripped it off. I hadn't actually seen the skit (and didn't check my facts or anything) but it sounded good to me so I threw in that opinion when I repeated the post in my RL blog. Why not, what trouble could it possibly cause? I mean, like anybody reads my RL blog!
Apparently, the people at babytoupees.com are Googling themselves today, because I got this, out of kind of nowhere, in my RL inbox:
----- Original Message -----
From: 'Thomas Meyer'
To: [rl addy]
Sent: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:18
Subject: Fwd: BabyToupee Correction
Hi --------,
I caught your blog post today. To clarify, we didn't rip off Saturday Night Live with our new company. Although we don't take ourselves too seriously with BabyToupee, we don't like being called out as a "rip off". We actually registered the name Baby Toupee bavck in July of 2004. The Saturday Night Live skit ran in February of 2006.
Thanks for the post, but I hope you will reconsider calling us "an entire web shop ripped off from an SNL sketch". Thanks again!!
Regards,
T Meyer
c/o BabyToupee
---
...followed by the registerfly.com copyright information to prove his case.
Wow. I took the one line out for him (but kept the rest of the commentary), because he was polite and didn't tell me to change the opinions in my post, but...cheese whiz, man. I mean, of all the causes in the world, would you really want to fight to prove YOU thought up a product like this?
They'll probably make some money, people in the flyover will probably find it hilarious and it's a good thing I won't see them doing so because it'd make me want to hit them with a wrench. Meanwhile their hateful little Pomeranians will try to shake the fabric from one of these collars or a stupid outfit like this out of their eyes and think wearily: "I feel your pain, kid."
::shakes head in bemusement:: Whatevs.
queenofattolia mentioned there was a similar SNL skit and said she thought they'd ripped it off. I hadn't actually seen the skit (and didn't check my facts or anything) but it sounded good to me so I threw in that opinion when I repeated the post in my RL blog. Why not, what trouble could it possibly cause? I mean, like anybody reads my RL blog!
Apparently, the people at babytoupees.com are Googling themselves today, because I got this, out of kind of nowhere, in my RL inbox:
----- Original Message -----
From: 'Thomas Meyer'
To: [rl addy]
Sent: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:18
Subject: Fwd: BabyToupee Correction
Hi --------,
I caught your blog post today. To clarify, we didn't rip off Saturday Night Live with our new company. Although we don't take ourselves too seriously with BabyToupee, we don't like being called out as a "rip off". We actually registered the name Baby Toupee bavck in July of 2004. The Saturday Night Live skit ran in February of 2006.
Thanks for the post, but I hope you will reconsider calling us "an entire web shop ripped off from an SNL sketch". Thanks again!!
Regards,
T Meyer
c/o BabyToupee
---
...followed by the registerfly.com copyright information to prove his case.
Wow. I took the one line out for him (but kept the rest of the commentary), because he was polite and didn't tell me to change the opinions in my post, but...cheese whiz, man. I mean, of all the causes in the world, would you really want to fight to prove YOU thought up a product like this?
They'll probably make some money, people in the flyover will probably find it hilarious and it's a good thing I won't see them doing so because it'd make me want to hit them with a wrench. Meanwhile their hateful little Pomeranians will try to shake the fabric from one of these collars or a stupid outfit like this out of their eyes and think wearily: "I feel your pain, kid."
::shakes head in bemusement:: Whatevs.