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Thorgon
Big Wall climber
Sedro Woolley, WA
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Oct 22, 2010 - 12:42pm PT
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The irony is limitless!!!! Hahaha
Thor
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 22, 2010 - 12:49pm PT
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Well, Peter, you do have to commisserate with N Face to a point.
You can well imagine how afraid they were the public would view S Butt as their outlet store, especially with that logo.
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cleo
Social climber
Berkeley, CA
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Oct 22, 2010 - 02:49pm PT
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I want one!
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 22, 2010 - 03:49pm PT
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Yeah, it is right up there with "Go Rock a Climber" tee shirts back in the seventies. All in the same font and point size with the YMS logo. And then there was Scuffy's derivative tee shirt, Go Climb a Rock Climber"
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Oct 22, 2010 - 03:53pm PT
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best thread yet.
outlet store - too f*^&*)&* funny.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 22, 2010 - 04:22pm PT
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 22, 2010 - 06:37pm PT
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finally found an original:
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scuffy b
climber
Eastern Salinia
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Oct 22, 2010 - 07:59pm PT
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"Go climb a rock climber" was the creation of Kalen Meyer, in 1977.
She used a David Goines image for the logo on front, instead of the coiled rope used by YMS.
It depicts a noose (upside down) coming out of a flower vase.
(it might actually have been a rose growing out of a noose--fuzzy memory)
It was from Goines' anti-VD poster with the motto "Don't give the gift
that keeps giving"
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Fritz
Trad climber
Hagerman, ID
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Oct 22, 2010 - 09:46pm PT
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In Kathmandu in 2005, and again in 2008: a local store sold fleece jackets that were reversible.
North Face logo on one side.
Patagonia logo on the other.
The un-affliated gear-freaks loved them!
Anything goes in the "third-world."
Even the YacDonalds in Kagbeni, Nepal.
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HighTraverse
Social climber
Bay Area
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Oct 22, 2010 - 11:12pm PT
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I still won't buy North Farce.
Total boycott since I bought a Cat's Meow sleeping bag: Rated 20degF. I'm cold in it at 34 deg F. And I'm NOT a cold sleeper. To use the turkey bag in Tuolumne in the summer I have to wear long johns.
Three cheers for South Butt
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Trad
Trad climber
northern CA
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Oct 22, 2010 - 11:36pm PT
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That brings back a few memories...
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Oct 22, 2010 - 11:48pm PT
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Oct 22, 2010 - 11:53pm PT
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sorry if that offends...
Thought it was too funny
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Oct 23, 2010 - 12:49am PT
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It's a bit like the people who started a cafe called Haida Bucks, at Masset on Haida Gwaii ("Queen Charlotte Islands"). Naturally the Seattle mega-corporation sued them for trademark infringement, but eventually, after considerable humiliation in the news media, had to back off. The start of their website, which doesn't seem to have been updated recently:
If you're as dull-witted as Starbucks® thinks you are, you may not realize you've reached this site by mistake. You might've entered our address into your browser, thinking you'd somehow end up at starbucks.com anyway. So if you're looking for a cup of coffee with a mermaid on the side, you're in the wrong place.
But! If you're looking for a friendly, Native-owned cafe in NW Canada, Here We Are!! http://www.lanebaldwin.com/hbc/index2.htm
There is a satirical English magazine called Private Eye. They once did a marvelous spoof of your typical trademark lawyer and his work, including a copy of a standard demand/threat letter, captioned with something like "This idiot gets $300/hour for sending letters like this".
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dougs510
Social climber
down south
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Oct 23, 2010 - 01:02am PT
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That's freakin' hilarious!!!
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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Feb 16, 2015 - 09:48pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 17, 2015 - 03:21am PT
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Way back in the seventies, when I ran the Factory Outlet at 1234 5th St. in Berkeley, a former Oakland cop named Tony owned the Tamarack Lodge at Bear.
He was heavily relating with Helen West, the computer room's honcho. The card punchers were in the office space immediately behind my sales floor.
Tony and I went on a backpacking trip down into the Moke Wilderness and I took the new Back Magic pack to give it a test for the week (satisfactory, but not enough mileage to make any major decisions about how well I liked it).
When we came out at the end of the week Tony gave me one of his classy Tamarack t-shirts with the noose logo on the chest, its message stating in not-so-bold letters:
GO SUCK A ROCK. Tamarack School of Rock Sucking.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 17, 2015 - 05:57am PT
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The lawyer for The South Butt was named (mnt)Watkins! You just can't make up a funnier scenario!
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crackfiend
climber
Springdale, Utah
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Feb 17, 2015 - 07:55am PT
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