rob_t_firefly

rob_t_firefly, 10 months ago

See you in twelve days, Tigger!

rob_t_firefly, 10 months ago

The original work becoming public domain, sure, but write your own characters.

I don’t understand what you’re suggesting here. How would you reconcile the original work being public domain with still wanting to restrict the use of its characters?

rob_t_firefly, 10 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

If you restrict reuse of the characters in new work, the original would not be in the public domain. Something is either one’s property or it isn’t, and something in the public domain is everyone’s property. You can’t have the original as part of the collective repository of freely-available information and culture while still trying to make bits of it (such as its characters) not part of that.

The public domain period is when the law has agreed that the original authors no longer have exclusive rights to the material they put into the world. Trying to still, after that period has elapsed, declare the characters are still that author’s property but only if they turn up in other people’s work is a truly bizarre suggestion and I fail to see what would be gained by society in that scenario.

rob_t_firefly, 10 months ago

As Jackie Mason said, “I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.”

rob_t_firefly, 10 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

There was a diving team outside.

rob_t_firefly, 10 months ago

It remindsh me of the heady days of Shputnik and Yuri Gagarin, when the world trembled at the shound of our rocketsh.

rob_t_firefly, 10 months ago

Only smarter.

rob_t_firefly, 10 months ago

[PAPER STRIP TEARING INTENSIFIES]

rob_t_firefly, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

True story: The morning before going in for foot surgery, my mom was in a silly mood and wrote “wrong foot” on the other non-surgery-scheduled foot with a marker before putting on her socks.

After the surgery everything was fine, and later when checking up on her the surgeon told her everyone in the operating room got a good laugh out of that “wrong foot” message.

Mom was glad her joke worked out, but later started wondering why they were looking at the wrong foot in the first place and now wonders if her private joke to amuse herself actually saved her from having the wrong foot operated upon.

rob_t_firefly, 11 months ago

“I believe I ordered the

rob_t_firefly, 11 months ago

Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch, who watches over you