Author has trademarked common word; threatening other authors over its use

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  1. Cave Troll

    Cave Troll It's Coffee O'clock everywhere. Contributor

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    I don't want to know what your 'Mascot' looks like.
    Then again there is a band called Anal Cunt, so...
     
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    There is so much fail out there I couldn't link it all

    In this shoot she has at least got the flash firing - although bizarrely shes tethered to a flash unit rather than using a radio trigger , but shes using a 70-200 lens which means head shots at the distances shes shooting. There is no way that the shoot filmed produced the cover images she claims it did

    Also some of the time when the flash fires its not lighting up the model - which says to me another photographer is working on the otherside of the studio probably taking the actual shots

     
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    Steerpike Felis amatus Contributor

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    Yeah. Heard of those guys, but not sure I've ever heard their music. There was also The Slits, but they actually had some good music.
     
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    Sorry Mate, but I filed the trademark for "My Fucking Eyes" months ago... so it's you who is infringing on my trademark.. better pay up or i'll send in the lawyers.
     
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    Steerpike Felis amatus Contributor

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    That tears it...I'm going to record a YouTube video about your bullying ass. Then we'll see who has the last laugh.
     
    Steerpike, May 15, 2018
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    John-Wayne Madman Extradinor Contributor

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    How do you keep a straight face while saying Cocker over and over again, how do you have pride in such a title. The Cockiest Cocky Cockers around.

    Well, then again my Character is named Kristol Darius.
     
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    Sweet, then I can make the youtube video parodying your video crying about how I bullied you despite you starting it. :p LOL, it'll get 7.5 billion hits.
     
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    Steerpike Felis amatus Contributor

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    Hmmm. Maybe we could keep that going as a running feud and split the ad revenue...:evilsmile:
     
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    :supercool: We'll need to hide all evidence.
     
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    My two MCs (different books) are Steve 'Dusty' Miller and "Ben 'the Blade' Gibbon" So I probably can't talk.

    That said theres a building firm down here called Cockman builders which gives me a grin every time I see their van ( I like to imagine that their job done signs say "another great erection from Cockman" but i'm guessing they probably don't)
     
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    Well done sir! :supergrin:
     
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    Grazie mille!
     
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    I'm sorry I've trademarked the entire Italian language so..
     
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    I think those studio lights are set way way too high for those models. (I did photography 25 years ago before digital came into play.)
     
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    I love how it says "First Time Ever?" For a second I thought they were asking if it was the first time ever she'd handled a camera!
     
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    I like that name. :)
     
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    Yeah my thought ( I was a wedding photographer for ten years as a side hustle - didnt do much studio, it was mostly location)

    Its the way shes holding the camera that's a real red flag it should be right hand on the grip, left hand under the barrel of the lens - after ten year i do it instinctively ... shes claiming 4.5 years in the industry but still holds the camera like an amateur
     
    big soft moose, May 15, 2018
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    So many jokes here...

    "Rammed with Fail"? [lowers voice] "Starring Cocky Lovinngoof? That's in the adult section, behind the curtain back there." ('Cause apparently it's the 80's.)
     
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    Rammed With Fail sounds like a Chuck Tingle book tbh
     
    Laurin Kelly, May 16, 2018
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    I think Chuck has trademarked "Pounded in the Butt", which is a pity, since I was planning on writing a book on preparing pork shoulders...
     
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    Rammed with fail will be the debut book in my steamy romance series, which will feature Korbert Ramm and his hot brothers and sisters. Coming ( yes I know) titles will include Rammed on the freeway, rammed in the subway, and rammed from behind. I will naturally be trademarking the word ram and sending c&d letters to sheep farmers everywhere
     
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    Now I'm thinking that I would pay good money to see a video where she presses a button on her camera and the lens falls off.

    Also "They want to be a part of the family"? I'm not entirely sure I want to be surrounded by arrogant, dick-shaking, bum-grabbing assholes (or have a surname like Cocker).
     
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    Back when cocky gate first broke I tried to write a parody, but faleena is so overblown already that even with sentences like "as I look at him I can feel my nipples hardening like toffee" 'grabbed by the cocky' just read like more of the same.
     
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    That's why I love those sorts of stories ("so bad they're good") so much!
     
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    THINK, you have another THINK coming!

    I really don't agree with slating any author. But this takes the biscuit. And it smacks in the face that this is from a bestseller, from someone succeeding when there are books out there which are soooooooo much better than this.
     
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