You think Miami is bad, come to Orlando for a bit… I was talking about the trademark. I don’t think that it matters what type of product it is, Coca-Cola still owns the name “Coke”.
I’ve just now placed my order for some Violet and Lavender plus some other goodies.
“Coca-Cola still owns the name “Coke””. Then are the responsible for the illegal drug?
Coke is actually a coal by product. So no one can own the word “coke” anymore than they can own the word “coal.” Coca-Cola is nicknamed ‘Coke’ so they subsequently adopted it and trademarked it. That trademark may only apply to people using it they way they write their logo. Remember there was a “cökesnuff” once upon a time. The illegal drug has been given the slang name ‘coke’ also, but how can anyone control a slang word? Now when you make a Coke Snuff and make it Cola flavored, that’s a grey area. Who know what Coca-Cola’s reponse will be. I suspect they will ignore it unless Roderick makes a fortune on it. Also, I suspect Roderick discussed this with his lawyer ahead of time.
@ Xander, Only baiting you, Lol!..True. But we had a chap locally called Ronald and he opened up a burger bar named MacRonald’s. The big chain came down on him. He changed his name to MacRonald by deed pole and then put two fingers up at them!
In the US we use 1 finger.
That as started over here now, but 2 fingers was a English and French thing to begin with.
Do you know where the finger sign comes from? In the days when an argument was settled by the sword and the argument wasn’t very serious, the winner would only chop off the loser’s middle finger in stead of killing him. When the bystanders noticed that one of the fighters was losing, they would put up their middle fingers towards him, indicating that his finger was “on the block”.
I thought it was started when enemy bowmen were captured they cut off their middle fingers to prevent them from pulling their bowstrings back, and those with middle fingers were raised as a haha we have our fingers and can shoot you. Not sure where exactly I had read this.
BigSnoot, You Have it in one… F**K The French!
It was in battles with us British, and the French. By The Way; I’m considering giving the Independence back to the Americans, the American the Red Indians, I mean. Native America should I say? Chief Sitting Bull is dancing up there, can you hear the drums.
Dave, your story sounds more plausable than mine!!! I buy it
Check en.wikipedia.org/wiki/finger (gesture)
So I took your bait Snuff Head. I guess i’m easily baited. We had a few similar incidents here with fast food chains. One guy named Kennedy had a little shop called “Kennedy Fried Chicken” his sign looked very much like the giant Kentucy Fried Chicken. He got away with it for years, but this year finally had to change it to “New York Fried Chicken” We also have a pizza chain called “Papa John’s” A small hole in the wall place made a similar logo for his sign and called it Mom’s Pizza. They found him, shut him down, took a few years. There are plenty more stories like this.
@ Xander yes I think it is when you make the sign, ‘Trade Mark’ so similar, then you can be in trouble. You could be then said to deceive people.
Yeah, but Coca-Cola would have to prove that in court. I don’t think anyone is being decieved thinking they buy Toque Coke and its something to drink. But yet its flavored like coke, so… I don’t know. Its a grey area. Let the lawyers sort it out.
Just still laughing at New York Fried Chicken, don’t sound right, lol, lol! By the way there is a big outlet over here that does the chicken with herbs called Southern Fried Chicken. Don’t know if it is American or British.
Yeah, I took a double take when I saw the new sign. New York? I don’t know why he went with that. Maybe he’s from there. I haven’t eaten his chicken in years, but it was pretty good. As far as I know we don’t have an outfit called Southern Fried Chicken, but that’s a common dish in many resatuarants. Its as ordinary a name as I guess Fish and Chips must be there.
We should have been in that chat room, but It’ late must sleep. 23:53 BST. Bye.
So anyone have any reviews of the florals yet? Not a big fan of florals as most can be overpowering and completely mask the tobacco and linger too long, but am curious as to how these are set up.