Re: [q-lang-users] icon: powered by Q?

[ww <wwa...@ea...>]

I now know more about Pooh (and poo) than I ever expected.

Thank you,

Walt

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Cowan" <jc...@re...>
To: <q-l...@li...>
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: [q-lang-users] icon: powered by Q?


| ww scripsit:
|
| > | As you all know the current Q mascot is the poo-bear (sp?) on the
|
| "Pooh-bear", please; "poo" is a juvenile English word for "faeces".
|
| > | black board, which I found in some obscure spot on the net, I just
hope
| > | that I don't get sued for that. I thought it's nice. :) Any other
| > | opinions on that? Other suggestions?
| >
| > If the bear at the black board is Winnie, then there probably is a
| > problem lurking nearby. Disney owns Winnie.
|
| Let's not go off half-cocked here.  Disney does *not* own Winnie (or
| Winnie-the-Pooh in full), thank Ghu.  Disney *licensed* Winnie from
| (the estate of) A. A. Milne, who thought him up, and uses its own
| visual representation of him, which they do own.
|
| The Pooh in the Q picture is clearly not a Disney Pooh, but is derived
| from the illustrations of E. H. Shepard, which were published in
| the original Pooh books.  The signature as well as the subject-matter
| shows that this particular drawing is not Shepard's.  Who knows whether
| Shepard's estate licensed it?  I would guess not.
|
| -- 
| Said Agatha Christie / To E. Philips Oppenheim  John Cowan
| "Who is this Hemingway? / Who is this Proust?   jc...@re...
| Who is this Vladimir / Whatchamacallum,
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| This neopostrealist / Rabble?" she groused.     http://www.ccil.org/cowan
|         --author unknown to me; any suggestions?
|
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