Get McFucked

[Tierce]

@Gorsnak

I’m disappointed. I thought the thread title meant I could go down to Mickey D’s and purchase a quickie in the back room.

Did you want to SuperSize that?

[Mr.Blue_Sky]

@Tierce

Did you want to SuperSize that?

Just don’t ask to toss the McSalad.

[Muffin]

@kaylasdad99

What if McDonald’s wants to introduce bratwurst sandwiches under the name McBrats on a regional basis, for possible expansion to corporate-wide distribution? Would this guy sitting (HAH!) on that name impede that?

They could always call them McWurst, which given the taste of a lot of their “product”, might be a good name.

[Kat]

McDonald’s actually has offered bratwurst sandwiches–“For a Limited Time Only” deal, selling Johnsonville brats. At least twice. Around here, anyway.

[unclviny]

I am struggling to recall the old ROBIN WILLIAMS line:
“Would you like some Mcfries or a Mcshake or Mick Fleetwood or Mick Jagger with that?”.
“Naw, just give me my Mcchange and I’ll get the Mcfuck out of here”.

Unclviny

[Flamsterette_X]

I initially read the thread title as:

GET ME FUCKED!
Aiyoh. thud

[JamesCarroll]

Well, if everyone and his uncle wasn’t suing McD’s for the fat they fry their once delicious fries in, maybe they wouldn’t have considered litigation as a reasonable source of income.

But, yea its stupid. And I miss their old fries. And them atomic hot apple pies fresh from the fryer… sigh…

[Colibri]

@Mighty_Girl

Now, I take your McPato and raise you a McDowell: years ago, before the WTO put their foot down and made us respect international trademarks, there was a McDowell in one of the most important corners of the city. And they had an M that had an eerie resemblance to the golden arches. All coincidences of course ;). The first McDonald franchise in the island was there. They had to buy them off.

Actually, in Panama it’s quite frequent to intentionally mimic international companies. On the main shopping street downtown there’s a “SIDNEY’S” toystore with the sign in “Walt Disney” style script. There’s also a “Blumming’s” women’s wear store that is obviously imitating Bloomingdale’s.

[Mighty_Girl]

@Colibri

Actually, in Panama it’s quite frequent to intentionally mimic international companies. On the main shopping street downtown there’s a “SIDNEY’S” toystore with the sign in “Walt Disney” style script. There’s also a “Blumming’s” women’s wear store that is obviously imitating Bloomingdale’s.

I can’t remember the exact names, but I was in Panama for a couple of days two months ago and was surprised that I saw a couple of adverts on TV with business names that bore a strinking resemblance to some international brands. But it is common in all Latin America. Here we have a Corte Fiel, the name and lettering look exactly like the ubiquitous Spanish Corte Inglés. We also have a Blooming’s that looks a bit too much like Bloomingdale’s

[ricksummon]

That’s right, you can’t go into business under your own name or nickname, if somebody else was there first - even if they’re in a completely different business.

How does McDonald Automotive stay in business then?

[Hal_Briston]

@cj finn

If there is one thing I know about McLaughlins, its that they don’t know the first thing about keeping a low profile. Especially when they are from the south side of Chicago. Hopefully you came from a more [gentle] branch of the family!

Hmmm…nope, can’t say I’m familiar with that branch of the tree…

As to the topic at hand, we’ve got a McDonald’s pet store nearby, and they’ve been pretty brazen in their advertising. Mentioning things such as not having a drive-thru, not asking if you want fries with that, etc…

Always throught they’ve been just begging to be hounded by the McLawyers.

[I_Love_Me_Vol.I]

@Hal Briston

Uh oh…my last name is McLaughlin. Better keep a low profile.

WRONG!!! Jack Germond, what say you?

Bye-BYE!!!

[E.Thorp]

[sub]Relatively sure this question doesn’t deserve its own thread…[/sub]

Is memory playing tricks on me, or do I remember, from about 1983 or 1984, a short-lived McDonald’s ad campaign around the topic of “McLanguage”?

You can McDo it…
There’s nothing McTo it…
All you do is take a word
And add a Mc to it…

Naturally, much adolescent creativity (“McFuck you,” etc.) ensued.

[AmbushBug]

On a related note, apparently New York viciously defends its trademark against anyone who wants to (heart) things. linky

[CanvasShoes]

@cj finn

2. Deterrance - because dilution can hurt McD’s, they go after everyone. After a while their reputation is such that folks self censor to avoid using McD’s marks (or something similar), thereby achieving the same ends.

Or, people like us, heartily roll our eyes and commence boycotting, if we aren’t already.

Personally, I very rarely buy anything from micky D’s. I don’t get the whole McDonalds thing, at all, their food is not good. Other than their shakes and “homebaked” cookies that is.

But this sue-happy attitude of theirs, for me, it just annoys me into first, not into self-censoring, but into WANTING to find some McExcuse to use or misuse the Mc thing, and second, it annoys me into wanting to buy from them even less than I do now.

[buttonjockey308]

@cj finn

There was also a Burger King somewhere in central Illinois that predated the mega-corporation. They were allowed to continue business in their area with the provision that they cannot expand out of that area. The way it works is that if I register my trademark with the US PTO, I am entitled to exclusive use of that mark throughout the US. But where you later find someone that was using the name first, your rights are subject to the rights of that senior user of the mark. If that senior user was only selling burgers in a small midwestern town, that’s where the senior user has rights. You can’t go into that area. BUT, and this is the big one, your trademark rights will prevent the senior user from expanding into the area that you have exclusive rights to.

CJ

That Burger King is in the hometown of my SO, Mattoon. The then proprietor, Gene Hoots (with a name like THAT he picks BURGER KING??? WTF) had a few restaurants in the area, liquidated everything else to fight for the Burger King, which, is still in business today, pretty much, I think, out of spite.

Here is the case.

[buttonjockey308]

@AmbushBug

On a related note, apparently New York viciously defends its trademark against anyone who wants to (heart) things. linky

But what about This?

[running_coach]

[QUOTE=E. Thorp]

Naturally, much adolescent creativity (“McFuck you,” etc.) ensued.[/QUOTE
McPenis?
d&r

[Frank]

@buttonjockey308

That The then proprietor, Gene Hoots (with a name like THAT he picks BURGER KING??? WTF) …

Yes, you’re right. He should definitely have gone with hOOtser’s.

[Tenar]

I have been looking unsuccessfully for a cite, but I recall a case back in the 70s where the Vidal Sasson hair care empire successfully sued the hell out of a poor hair salon owner whose own name happened to be either Sasson or Sassoon. The big guys won.