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From: kjfair@midway.uchicago.edu (Kenneth Fair)
Subject: Re: Silly Game Elements, Round Three
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Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 18:04:43 GMT
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In article <4nntjo$b3p@bolivia.it.earthlink.net>, cardinalt@earthlink.net
(Cardinal Teulbachs) wrote:

>jeffmill@ix.netcom.com (Jeffrey F. Miller) wrote:
>
>>>Examine CEO of Apocolypse Foods
>>Dressed in a dark blue, smart-looking, double breasted suit, the rather rotund
>>Chief Executive Officer of Apocolypse foods is leafing through purchase orders
>>behind a gargantuan mahogany desk.  His jowls quiver as he mubles to himself.
>
>>"Half a ton hog parts ... four hundred sausage peelers ... fat forest clear
>>cutting ..."
>
>This is interesting, considering that the CEO of Hormel had already
>(unbeknownst to anyone but me) made an appearance in the game in
>relation to the Spam bit. Given that, what I'd like to do is combine
>and confuse Hormel and Apocolypse--and their CEO's--to make a
>megacorporation that produces both Spam and Scrapple.
>
>Legal query: I originally thought I'd have to use the Hormel
>Corporation's real name in the game, since they are the makers of Spam
>and, presumably, proud of it, while it wouldn't do to try to change
>the name Spam to anything else. Yet, however proud they might be of
>their Spam, I tend to believe Hormel would not be pleased by any
>inference with respect to Scrapple or its mode of production. What do
>you think I should do then? Change the name Spam to something else,
>drop the idea of combining Hormel and Apocolypse, or say damn the
>lawyers, this is all in innocent fun, and full speed ahead?

Yeesh.  I'd stay away from Hormel(R) and Spam(C)(TM)(R) if I were you.
Just make it the Scrapple(TM) Corporation, a division of Apocalypse
Foods.  That way, you get the CEO of Apocalypse as well as the Four
Other Horsemen.  You might also go with the Scram(tm) suggestion made
by someone else.  By the Boarwell Corp.?

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