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Stephan Kinsella is a patent attorney
in Houston, Texas.
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Email: Stephan -at- KinsellaLaw dot com
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"Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding."
--Samuel Johnson
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money."
--Samuel Johnson
"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur" (Anything said in Latin
sounds profound)
"How can the great suck of self ever hope to be a fat cat dozing in the sun?"
--Walker Percy
"A Volvo is a beautifully engineered, well-built statement that the owner has the soul of a dung beetle."
--Fred Reed
"The total complex of the rules according to which those at the helm employ compulsion and coercion is called law. Yet the characteristic feature of the state is not these rules, as such, but the application or threat of violence."
--Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government
"No socialist author ever gave a thought to the possibility that the abstract entity which he wants to vest with unlimited power—whether it is called humanity, society, nation, state, or government—could act in a way of which he himself disapproves."
--Ludwig von Mises, Human Action
"I never knew anyone who collected anything who was good for anything else."
--anon.
"The matter does not appear to me now as it appears to have appeared to me then."
--Baron Bramwell, in Andrews v. Styrap (Ex. 1872) 26 L.T.R. (N.S.) 704, 706
" Reunions are for losers.."
--Tom DiLorenzo.
...and my favorite: "A working wife is worth three rent houses."
--J. Lanier Yeates
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Friday, August 27, 2004
More on humorous voicemails:
Following up on recent posts about humorous voicemails and emails, here's another humorous voicemail. The story behind the voicemail is explained here, and in the letter below.
Mr. Kinsella:
I stumbled over this website courtesy of an article about the
recent humorous voicemail and couldn't resist writing you to share something amusing that happened to our company. Our Austin-based company, Despair Inc., produces cynical humor products- including parodies of motivational posters
called Demotivators. Anyway, our logo features the :-( emoticon--which we
obviously did not invent but nevertheless submitted a trademark request for to the USPTO. To our surprise (and our IP lawyer's amazement), we received a
trademark for the symbol in printed matter class of goods.
As a joke, we wrote a fake press release about how--in light of our trademark on the :-( symbol--we planned to sue several million individuals who had used the symbol in email of late.
It was mostly meant as a rip on frivolous IP lawsuits. But
because of some clumsy reporting and overzealous netizens, it ended up becoming a gigantic outrage to many thousands of people who missed the joke. The most amusing contact we received came in the form of a late-night voicemail from someone who sounded very drunk.
http://www.despair.com/frownies.html The voicemail is linked in the page above. It is expletive-laden and frequently incoherent--but provoked gales of laughter and ultimately, the desire to share the joke with others. We bleeped out the expletives--as we're a pretty family-friendly
website--but even without them, it's a very amusing and
confusing listen, though admittedly, for a somewhat select audience. Hope you enjoy it.
Cheers,
Justin Sewell
Despair, Inc.
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