{"id":9334,"date":"2010-08-10T21:39:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T01:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/?p=9334"},"modified":"2010-08-10T21:39:20","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T01:39:20","slug":"lou-ah-villes-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/2010\/08\/lou-ah-villes-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Lou-ah-ville’s Best"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(I know the Caturday thing doesn’t work-but…um…the image is funny, so I’m going with it)<\/p>\n

Apparently a local Louisville mag has trademarked the phrase **** of Louisville.\u00a0 Meaning others can’t use it anymore.\u00a0 Gasp!\u00a0 Well, if they were going to trademark something maybe they should have trademarked something a little less generic than **** of LOUISVILLE<\/em><\/p>\n

Just sub in the word\u00a0 B \u00a0\u00a0 E \u00a0 S \u00a0\u00a0 T\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 for ****\u00a0 (yeah, I’m being deliberately silly here, because I think for a magazine that’s supposed to highlight the good and cool things about a city to trademark a phrase that lets people talk<\/em> about the good and cool things about a city is pretty damn…well… silly).\u00a0 Although what they told me on twitter, and in a pretty snotty matter… was basically since somebody else<\/em> didn’t coin the oh-so-original phrase ****<\/em> of Louisville 25 years ago, then other places can’t use it.<\/p>\n

I wonder if somebody has coined the phrase…um…never mind.\u00a0 Getting off track here.\u00a0 Anyway.\u00a0 So it’s TM’d, although I suspected such a generic phrase, alone?\u00a0 If somebody else wanted to use the phrase<\/em> and wasn’t referencing the awards, the little logo thingie that the magazine has, and all that?\u00a0 Well, I dunno.\u00a0 But Best of<\/em> whatever is pretty generic.\u00a0 Take that as you will.\u00a0 Not that I’m a lawyer.<\/p>\n

But since I wasn’t ‘clever enough to TM the oh-so-fricking original phrase ‘**** of Louisville” (of course, I was nine<\/strong><\/em>), and I’m not about to beg permission for such a fricking generic term, I’ve decided I’ll come up with my *own* best list.<\/p>\n

That works.\u00a0 I’m a writer.\u00a0 I know how to use words-I can come up with some equally as brilliant, clever and never to be accidentally or mistakenly used by anybody because everybody will always automatically realize it was fricking trademarked<\/em>…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Louisville has so many nicknames…instead of using **** of Louisville, I’m going with<\/p>\n

Lou ah-ville’s Best.\u00a0 I thought about with the “THE VILLE’S BEST” but eh…nah.\u00a0 I never liked the nickname THE VILLE.<\/p>\n

So. Ahem.\u00a0 Without further ado… Lou-ah-ville’s Best<\/p>\n

Hmmm.<\/p>\n

I know!<\/p>\n