"There's Been a Complaint Against You...."

[chainedbarista]

Actually I have known people who think being smart and reading a book is something that only extreme losers do.

sadly, this is true; the trend today is that 'teh stupid is teh kool.'
god help us all.

as for the comment, the man's simply brain dead.

[Imogene]

I have seen many cakes that are decorated with various copyrighted images

They probably have agreements with the copyright owners for those cakes. They'd probably be the cakes the store can mass produce if desired.

[Green_Fairy]

They probably have agreements with the copyright owners for those cakes. They'd probably be the cakes the store can mass produce if desired.

agreed. during my days at the cookie store, we were allowed to do cookie cakes with pooh, tigger, and piglet, but not minnie, mickey, scooby doo, ect no matter how much the customer wants it.

[draftermatt]

agreed. during my days at the cookie store, we were allowed to do cookie cakes with pooh, tigger, and piglet, but not minnie, mickey, scooby doo, ect no matter how much the customer wants it.

Odd that Pooh and friends are allowed and not Mickey (being all Disney)

Linky

[CaroPhoenix]

As a parent with an autistic child also, I prefer people to think she's got the intense, "I'm very interested in what I'm doing" body reading.

Anyway, as Jester said, he couldn't tell the kid was Autistic because ... Autistic children don't have a blinking neon sign on top of their heads!

If the father was going on and on and standing next to his son saying stuff like, "Hey! Don't go this way, you might disturb my AUTISTIC son!" Then yeah, everyone would know.

As for the word "bookworm" being a derogatory term? It's been one since I was like in 3rd grade (and I'm 37 now). My BIL#2 and his wife both think it's a dirty word. And my mom is intimidated because I've read so much and know a lot of things.

[Broomjockey]

Odd that Pooh and friends are allowed and not Mickey

Not particularly. Mickey is their flagship. Their figurehead. I can't see how it'd surprise you that they'd more zealously guard his image in licensing than they would other characters.

[Imogene]

Odd that Pooh and friends are allowed and not Mickey (being all Disney)

Linky

Hmm... let's see if I can figure this one out... WMG, eat your heart out...
Pooh and friends, though originally belonging to A.A. Milne, were taken over by Disney after the movies came out. Disney has since turned Pooh, Tigger, and Eeyore into cash cows not unlike... well... Haris Pilton...
Pooh, Tigger, and Eeyore are now part of a new show, called 'Super Sleuths', I think...
???
Profit...
Pooh, Tigger, etc, on cakes... makes perfect sense, except the part about underwear...

[draftermatt]

Not particularly. Mickey is their flagship. Their figurehead. I can't see how it'd surprise you that they'd more zealously guard his image in licensing than they would other characters.

That's not what surprises me. What surprises me is that they allow any of them (hence the linky)

[Broomjockey]

(hence the linky)

The linky was about unauthorised usage. The use Green_Fairy was talking about was licensed. They're completely different and unequal scenarios. So again, I can see them licensing out ones like Winnie the Pooh, while not licensing Mickey. Mickey doesn't need to be licensed to pull in super-mega bucks, so they can afford to be very discriminating about how he can be used, when, and by who. Winnie the Pooh isn't as large, so squeezing out a few extra dollars while not diluting their own efforts is a good business case.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Odd that Pooh and friends are allowed and not Mickey (being all Disney).[/URL]

It might be that the licensing fees for Pooh and friends are a lot lower than the licensing fees for Mickey.

[Green_Fairy]

...random tangent!

didja know that donald duck wasn't allowed in europe for a while cuz he doesn't wear pants?

[Lace Neil Singer]

...random tangent!

didja know that donald duck wasn't allowed in europe for a while cuz he doesn't wear pants?

http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/finland.asp

That is all. I love Snopes.

[Kristev]

Greetings. I'm Franklin Newman, a novelist and janitor for Wal-Mart. So yes, I see these lousy S. C.'s nearly every day. Sometimes I'm left with the impression that I sold my life for some malevolent spirit because of where I work, but where I live, there are no other jobs.

By the way, as I also have Asperger's syndrome, I can safely tell you that most autistics do not find "Bookworm" to be in the least offensive. Perhaps confusing, until they're taught what a figure of speech is, but not offensive. Parents, on the other hand . . . oh my, what a nightmare.

[Magpie]

By the way, as I also have Asperger's syndrome, I can safely tell you that most autistics do not find "Bookworm" to be in the least offensive. Perhaps confusing, until they're taught what a figure of speech is, but not offensive. Parents, on the other hand . . . oh my, what a nightmare.

Unless, of course, you're lucky enough to have two parents with Asperger's as well, in which case they also grew up considering 10 full sized novels a week to be reasonable...

[AriRashkae]

Unless, of course, you're lucky enough to have two parents with Asperger's as well, in which case they also grew up considering 10 full sized novels a week to be reasonable...

'Course, it makes cleaning out my grandmother's house interesting, when that entire side of the family seems to have it to one degree or another.