(urth) Short Story 66: Three Fingers

Marc Aramini marcaramini at gmail.com
Tue Jun 10 09:29:08 PDT 2014


So do you guys think he bites a finger off at the end? The yellow bonbon
becomes a red jelly bean in his mouth, the glove is white/red.  Do we not
count thumbs as fingers? Any other possible meaning to the title?


On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote:

>
> On 10/06/2014 04:50, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
>
>> But Wolfe is right, the Disney corporation's protection of its
>> trademarks/copyrights is downright paranoia-inducing.
>>
>> There was a daycare in Florida that decorated with hand-painted images of
>> Disney characters. Unfortunately, it was on the outside of the building,
>> and when a Disney suit happened to pass by, they received a letter ordering
>> them not only to cease and desist, but to repaint immediately, which, if
>> you know anything about the economics of daycares, was tantamount to
>> bankrupting them.
>>
>> (There's a happy ending. Someone at Warner heard about it, and WB paid to
>> have the place repainted in Warner Bros. characters.)
>>
>
> That said, it wasn't just one daycare centre, it was several in the same
> city.  That may have struck Disney lawyers as more dangerous than a single
> centre...
>
> - Gerry Quinn
>
>
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