oldslabsides wrote:
wingtips...     I actually own a very cool pair of beige suede wingtips. I think it's high time to re-introduce wingtips to hipness.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
copout

oldslabsides wrote:

barbie flipflop

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
croc or wingtip?

Alexandra wrote:

sure. use it without permission.
If he's not tm'd to the hilt I'll eat a shoe.

 Alexandra wrote: 
Try Ursula LeGuinn's The Left Hand of Darkness, to name only one.  There's a lot of good sci-fi out there that's really just good fiction, earning the "science" part only through some quirk of setting. 

 oldslabsides wrote: 


I used to HATE when Sci-Fi writers would join the various writing groups that I was in. I had absolutely no input for them, since that genre is its own animal completely.

 Alexandra wrote: 
Write science fiction.

 oldslabsides wrote: 
No SHIT.  Most of the songwriter artists' handlers want between $50-100 per LINE of a song. No thanks. I'll just say, "She sang the opening line to Van Morrison's "Moondance."

Bastiges.

If John Fogerty, Chris Isaak and the RHCP can grant gratis permission for just one line, why can't the rest of 'em?

 Alexandra wrote: 
Who knew writing could be so hard?

Is there a quick way to find out if Sesame Street's Snuffleupagus character is trademarked? I've already been to the Sesame Workshop and Henson Company websites...and fired off an email to the latter.

But it seems there should be a free database out there.....