“Our legendary personalities are evergreen ‘brands’ with the benefit of worldwide recognition,” reads a message on the Richman agency’s website. Guardian UK Article *vomits* Where is the line drawn between “public figure” and “celebrity”? How can a dead person have an agent, particulary where there are no specific works concerned other than a sense of character? It’s one thing to insist that Duck Soup is a work that should be protected (which any more simply means controlled by whomever has the most buX0rs), but shouldn’t personalities and such pass into the public domain as well? ( boingboing : Bill Gates 0wns Einstein, Groucho , Freud, Asimov, Fuller, et al )
I think that's just British English, though. For instance if you Google "digestive biscuits" (http://www.google.com/search?q=%22digestive+biscuits%22&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official ) you get a bunch of hits and even a Wikipedia entry for digestive biscuit.
ReplyDeleteSo if their target market is British then they win! :-)
I don't have a problem with "Digestive Biscuits" -- that makes /sense/ to me. It's having digestive biscuits co-opted into the "Bits" family of small sandwiched crackers that gets me.
ReplyDelete"Digestive Bits" just sounds like regurgitant to me.
Vomit Sandwiches.