# The perfect master and money.. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 29, 2002, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-master-and-money/145492 "2002-12-29T10:21:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-master-and-money/145492/1 "2002-12-29T10:21:32Z")
How much does Cecil Adams get paid? ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-master-and-money/145492/2 "2002-12-29T10:45:04Z")
More than you will _ever_ know … ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-master-and-money/145492/3 "2002-12-29T10:50:53Z")
Wow… That’s alot… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-master-and-money/145492/4 "2002-12-29T10:53:49Z")
i.e., at least a buck fifty. ---
**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-master-and-money/145492/5 "2002-12-29T11:29:27Z")
You mean a day, a year, a lifetime? Please be more specific in your question. ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-master-and-money/145492/6 "2002-12-29T11:42:07Z")
How much per yesr and or per column. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-master-and-money/145492/7 "2002-12-29T12:08:51Z")
what about the royalties? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-master-and-money/145492/8 "2002-12-29T12:30:28Z")
How much does it cost to renew a registered trade mark? ---
**Author:** ![Aceospades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Aceospades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aceospades)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-master-and-money/145492/9 "2002-12-29T17:34:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Larry Mudd \* > \*\*How much does it cost to renew a registered trade mark? \*\* i thought it was the other way around. doesn’t the trademark pay you insted of you paying the trademark? ---
**Author:** ![mogiaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mogiaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mogiaw)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-master-and-money/145492/10 "2002-12-29T17:51:17Z")
I don’t think that’s anybody’s business but his own and maybe his family’s, and closest associates ’ and… ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-master-and-money/145492/11 "2002-12-29T18:06:47Z")
Well, if we mods get a percentage, than none. 😉 I think I’ll let ATMB work with this one. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-master-and-money/145492/12 "2002-12-29T23:16:18Z")
I dunno. I can ask, but I think I’ll get the same blank stare that I would get if I asked how much anybody gets paid. Salary amount, at least in the U.S., is usually considered confidential. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-master-and-money/145492/13 "2002-12-30T03:42:09Z")
How much does Cecil get paid? Teeming millions, of course. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-master-and-money/145492/14 "2002-12-30T05:23:11Z")
I can’t escape the name ‘SmileyDeath’! Nothing against you (yet) smiley, but seeing the same word over and over again, enough, is likely to make a person go insane. ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-master-and-money/145492/15 "2002-12-30T11:52:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lobsang \* > \*\*I can’t escape the name ‘SmileyDeath’! > > Nothing against you (yet) smiley, but seeing the same word over and over again, enough, is likely to make a person go insane. \*\* What do you mean about that? ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-master-and-money/145492/16 "2002-12-30T11:56:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lobsang \* > Nothing against you (yet) smiley, but seeing the same word over and over again, enough, is likely to make a person go insane. I’ll never forget when I was driven within inches of madness by “the”. ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-master-and-money/145492/17 "2002-12-30T12:03:32Z")
You mean their is a poster named “the”? ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-master-and-money/145492/18 "2002-12-30T12:41:53Z")
No, I would have put it in bold. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-master-and-money/145492/19 "2002-12-30T12:54:27Z")
I always thought he got paid in small countries. He would have 3 or 4 by now and in each of these countries he would rule as though a God. An Avatar on earth. The reason their are no pictures of him is because he doesn’t want any of his loyal followers to worship the picture instead of himself. It’s a whole 1st commandment type dealy thing. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-master-and-money/145492/20 "2002-12-30T15:13:02Z")
**Lobsang:** First, cool it. Personal comments about other posters have no business in this forum. Second, cool it. You came to this thread solely to remark that Smileydeath has posted here? That looks suspiciously like stalking to me. You’re skating very very near the edge, and putting one toe over the line. Take this as a stern warning, and as the last warning. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-master-and-money/145492.md?page=2)