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On Sep 18, 8:15 am, Straydog wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Russell wrote:
> > On Sep 17, 1:28 pm, Straydog wrote:
> >> (yeah, I know this is over the "vomit" threshold)
>
> >> She's suing Halmark Cards (I think) for using a phrase ("That's Hot") that
> >> her lawyer says she patented, or something.
>
> >> Really heavy duty brains at work, no?
>
> > I guess we meteorologists are in trouble. From now on we
> > can't say, "The high was 97 today. That's hot!"
>
> Or, guys like myself, building electronic things, and soldering wires to
> terminals, and not waiting long enough for the parts to cool off, and
> touching it too soon, burning the fingers and saying "[expletives
> deleted], that's hot!"
>

Reminds me of "Dilbert" a day or two ago. Dogbert
is the new VP of Marketing and wants to turn bad
things about the product into sales points. When
Alice says the product tends to overheat, Dogbert
says, "Hottest product on the market!"

Cheers,
Russell