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Post by froggy on Mar 2, 2008 9:29:33 GMT -5
Bet if we stated hitting a few of them they wouldn't be walking there anymore.  Like my dad used to say "fill in the potholes"!!! I see it a little bit down here in Herkimer as well. I remember once when I was still living in Utica watching a family move their stuff in the middle of the night around the first of a month using shopping carts. Yes, including the mattress, sprawled across the top of a cart. It was like a band of gipsies moving from town to town. Probably skipping out on rent from the previous apartment. |
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Post by dgriffin on Mar 2, 2008 12:15:08 GMT -5
How offal ! I mean awful. Froggy, if we can find your house, we'll demonstrate outside your window. You'll recognize us by out jackets ,ties and rosaries, yelling "Streetwalkers Unite!" Uh, maybe "Road Walkers, Unite!"
(By the way, can I steal your Dad's line?)
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Post by frankcor on Mar 2, 2008 18:24:00 GMT -5
Yeah, the pothole line is definitely a keeper.
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Post by bobbbiez on Mar 2, 2008 18:37:07 GMT -5
 Froggy, I want your Dad's line to. ;D Guess you'll just have to auction it off.
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Post by froggy on Mar 2, 2008 19:23:00 GMT -5
Froggy, I want your Dad's line to. ;D Guess you'll just have to auction it off. That's too funny. Yeah, I don't know how many times and how many people we'd almost hit on the city streets, and how many times his exclamation "fill in the potholes". Its almost like herding cattle, wandering around in the pasture. I imagine it would help the DPW tremendously and Utica would have the smoothest streets in all of NY. And to think, the fill used for patchwork is environmentally friendly!!!! We can be "green" and clean up the streets all in one swoop! |
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Post by bobbbiez on Mar 2, 2008 19:34:19 GMT -5
Froggy, think if I use your Dad's line, (fairly after the auction), will help me propose the idea to our common council members at their next meeting.  Your Dad was a very smart man. ;D
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Post by froggy on Mar 2, 2008 20:13:36 GMT -5
Dad's not one of the most educated men I know but he does have some smarts where it counts. Not to mention the occasional one liners!!
Hey, pitch it to the Common council if it'll help these people off the streets. Seriously. Enough is enough.
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Post by froggy on Mar 2, 2008 20:14:58 GMT -5
With all the interest I've seen in that saying, I better go get it copyrighted fast!!!
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Post by dgriffin on Mar 2, 2008 21:31:08 GMT -5
Just go back to your first mention of it and modify the post with "copyright 2008, your real name."
I think you don't even have to say so anymore, but I would do that as a minimum. You won't be able to bring a suit for infringement, however, unless you register it with the Library of Congress.
(Swimmy, how close was I?)
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Post by Swimmy on Mar 2, 2008 22:06:13 GMT -5
You were "dead on balls accurate." Bonus karma if you can figure out which movie I borrowed that phrase from and the scene.
Copyright rights typically attach immediately without having to register it with the Library of Congress. You can give notice that the text is copyrighted by doing what Dave said, but it won't stop someone from attempting to infringe your copyright. If you want to enforce those rights, you need to have it registered with the Library of Congress.
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Post by dgriffin on Mar 2, 2008 22:25:09 GMT -5
Yay for me! But I had just reviewed it a couple of months ago when I had some questions re my website. Which movie? It doesn't even sound familiar.
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Post by Swimmy on Mar 2, 2008 22:45:43 GMT -5
My cousin Vinny. It's where Pesci and Marisa Tomei are arguing about the leaking faucet. He was asking her how she could be so sure that the wrench was properly calibrated.
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Post by Swimmy on Mar 2, 2008 22:46:01 GMT -5
But I'll give you karma anyway. I'm in a good mood. |
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Post by dgriffin on Mar 2, 2008 23:00:02 GMT -5
Was that the movie where Pesci plays a recently law school grad. That was a great movie!
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Post by Swimmy on Mar 2, 2008 23:05:07 GMT -5
Sorta, he had graduated six years ago from the time the movie was taking place and had only been practicing for about 6 months or something like that. His first trial was a murder trial in Tennessee.
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Froggy, I want your Dad's line to. ;D
