Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank - Gizmodo Comments

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

oo0EveryoneElseWasDoingIt0oo — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:45:27 EST

some have poked fun, but no one has just come out and said it.

THE TITLE OF THIS IS WRONG> NFSW?

ok, and I hate those guys that do the whole grammar nit-picking thing. I'm sorry. I did it.

oo0EveryoneElseWasDoingIt0oo

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

Blakamin — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:22:33 EST

@gokor:
BINGO, dude, you have just won the trillion heinikens that drew could never drink!

Blakamin

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

92BuickLeSabre — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:55:41 EST

@mbodey: It depends on how long you've been there.

Simply taking money for not doing anything is a very different skill set from truly screwing people.

And we just don't have the time to retrain people to be total dicks once they are used to just being lazy con-men.

Bracewell & Giuliani is a good middle-of-the-road step, however. Lateral over to their offices for a few years, and then maybe we can talk.

92BuickLeSabre

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

zenpoet — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:21:21 EST

@illpacin0: Thanks. Drew is kind of an internet McGyver of epic proportions.

zenpoet

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

mbodey — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:52:19 EST

damn you 92buicklesabre, you always get the good jobs. i'm still stuck here at dewey, cheatem & howe. can you hook me up with a job over at BP&B?

mbodey

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

92BuickLeSabre — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:28:17 EST

@Oldbrass: First of all, thank you for the free shout-out for my firm, BP&B - specializing in making money off your problems since 1984.

Second, how did it work? The only people paying attention to this are people who already know about Fark, and a good number of them think the whole thing is lame.

Not to assume the whole world is just like me, but I'm a casual Fark reader, and a prank like this just tells me that they've Jumped the Fark...so to speak. The comments here seem to support the idea that I'm not alone.

92BuickLeSabre

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

Oldbrass — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:19:34 EST

@greysky: C&D's are not the end of it. They are the beginning. He would need to actually pay a bunch of lepers.. I mean lawyers to make it all happen. Very spendy, very quickly. Unless you really want it more than anything else or have a metric crapload of cash, 99% of the time, it's just not worth going after. Something like this is very likely to be challenged and thus cost more time and cash. In the end, all he would have done is get "NSFW" off a website for 3 minutes and made the law firm of Bastard, Prick and Bumrape that much richer.

This is a publicity stunt... And it seems to have worked.

Oldbrass

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

ripfire — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:15:25 EST

Not For Student Workers.

ripfire

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

Paradise — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:25:51 EST

what is he trying to prove? we all know the patent system is retarded. Up next, the sky is blue?

Paradise

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

TonyTriple — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:07:23 EST

@gokor:
wow. just wow. Your comment is exactly why the prank was so special. I can't believe that there were jackasses all serious about this! Pfft, trademarking the internets...It's not like this guy is Comcast or anything.

Oh yea, COMCAST IS TRYING TO CONTROL THE INTERNET.

TonyTriple

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

92BuickLeSabre — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:02:28 EST

@gokor: Of course isn't that the inevitable result of pretty much any prank?

As a fan of pranks everywhere, I now declare Drew Curtis to be:

No Fun, Space Waster

92BuickLeSabre

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

GOKOR — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:56:06 EST

Yeah, he says it was a prank after everyone gives him a ton of grief for it. The likely situation is that he didn't like being on the receiving end of a bunch of shit for being a jerk.

GOKOR

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy! — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:40:00 EST

FWSN, says Yoda.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

strider_mt2k — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:20:12 EST

Never Fling Shit Willingly?

(sorry, it's a fun game)

strider_mt2k

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

Reilaos~ — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:15:32 EST

@montecristo: No Face, Show Wanker?

Name Folks, Sue Fascists?

Nick Finds Slow Whales?

Reilaos~

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

92BuickLeSabre — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:03:44 EST

What kind of prank includes telling everyone its a prank while you're pulling the prank???

92BuickLeSabre

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

Captain Angry — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:54:20 EST

Man it takes you a long time to pick up a story. He said it was a prank on fark the day you guys published the story.

Captain Angry

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

illpacin0 — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:57:59 EST

"You do have to give props do Drew though, he built a giant company, millions of dollars, fame and notoriety out of a synonym for doinking and a picture of squirrel nuts."

Well put.

illpacin0

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

zenpoet — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:37:16 EST

I just commented on Fark after what my profile tells me is a three year hiatus. I used to surf that site for hours a day. Now, I have left her for a more fickle mistress, and that mistress is gizmodo.

Yes, there be some 'tards a lurkin' here, but I dare say the caliber of 'tards here is higher than over at fark.

You do have to give props do Drew though, he built a giant company, millions of dollars, fame and notoriety out of a synonym for doinking and a picture of squirrel nuts.

zenpoet

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

greysky — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:29:14 EST

@Oldbrass: unenforcable? wait till they Out Cease & Desist Letters

greysky

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

greysky — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:27:19 EST

They have filed for it, so next time giz uses the nsfw they would have to pay fark

[tess2.uspto.gov]

greysky

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

ANoel — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:23:02 EST

Regarding b)... is it mere coincidence there is a spanking new Belvedere Vodka ad directly @ 1 o'clock 400 pixels away?

ANoel

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

TommySez — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:17:00 EST

Well, duh. Did anyone think he was serious? I mean, other than idiots.

TommySez

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

Oldbrass — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:00:30 EST

I loves the Fark. It's where I go after I get depressed reading the real news. As for the NSFW thing, it would just be fun to own it. It's pretty much unenforceable. Wouldn't YOU all like to lay claim to it?

Oldbrass

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

God made the pretty girls pretty because he likes them more — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:00:52 EST

Still doesn't make his site less passe than it already was. It was cooling down a bit when Digg went 2.0 (and went to crap)

God made the pretty girls pretty because he likes them more

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

montecristo — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:26:52 EST

it is NSFW, not NFSW

montecristo

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

bobdobbs — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:04:12 EST

@doofusgumby: I thought when in doubt, X equals 8 (?)

bobdobbs

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

doofusgumby — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:40:25 EST

Dude, the answer is always C.

doofusgumby

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

shiftyeyedgoat — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:30:53 EST

@ywpark: Dude has more money than God...

dot com.

shiftyeyedgoat

Drew Curtis Says NFSW Trademark Application is a Prank

ywpark — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:36:29 EST

isn't it something like $250 to file one?

ywpark