34 Comments

  1. miprisci +43

    Let’s see here…
    BRANDING, MONEY, ANTISEMITISM, CEASE AND DESIST, BRITNEY SPEARS, CELEBRATION.

    If there are diagonals, I haven’t found them yet.

      1. miprisci +6

        Iiiiiinteresting! Yes, that makes more sense. I thought “celebration” was an odd find among the others. Good call!

  2. turanga_leela +42

    In the bathroom at Disneyland, I once overheard one employee say to another, “But it is the happiest place on earth; I just want to be happy!”

    1. iarenivar +4

      That sounds about right, according to my best friend’s experience working/interning at Disneyland for the past year.

  3. carolinecrale +38

    is this my chance to rant about copyright law?! because MICKEY MOUSE PROTECTION ACT fuck youuuuuuuu

    1. D_e_x +21

      I’ll add Harvard to this list, especially because they’re hampering education. This year at the university we got a memo related only to their material. They are hyper-vigilant and drastically overstep what is and is not illegal as far as fair usage, but everyone’s terrified of them because of their deep pockets.

      The school pays untold mountains of money to subscribe to their various resources. Fair use should allow students to use them for educational purposes, especially because the school is paying for them. The software has been rigged so that neither printing nor saving is possible for anyone accessing documents, on campus or not. We are advised that it is illegal to post copies of documents, that it is illegal to post links to copies of the documents, and that it is illegal to provide links to paid-for sources where the documents are freely available on the university’s sites. Apparently the only thing we are legally allowed to do is to describe verbally in class how a student wanting to get their hands on such a document could do the search in the library.

      We received the memo for Harvard material only and received no direction on any other material.

      1. bgprincipessa +5

        Ahhh!! Yes, Harvard Business Review agghhh. I have experienced everything you just described and it is such a pain. I hate that you can’t save/print documents – we are PAYING for this access.

      2. TheAntiHumorEquation +2

        The school pays untold mountains of money to subscribe to their various resources. Fair use should allow students to use them for educational purposes, especially because the school is paying for them.

        Well, I think the problem here is that the licenses basically sign away fair use rights, and there is no case law about whether or not you can actually do that, because there have never before been a publisher as evil as HBR.

    1. HotDoom +6

      boring short story: I was supposed to be a costumer on that movie, but the original designers hired for it (who, in turn, hired me) were nuts and got fired on the second day of production, which worked well, because I went in to work that day to quit. I am sure the people they hired for the film instead were decent human beings and I sort of want to see it now. The End.

    1. amymcollier +23

      Unfortunately I can’t take credit for these, or “turd angled backwards” (or the benign ones). The Happiest Accidents on Earth.

  4. PleaseInsertPun

    The school pays untold mountains of money to subscribe to their various resources. Fair use should allow students to use them for educational purposes, especially because the school is paying for them.

    Well, I think the problem here is that the licenses basically sign away fair use rights, and there is no case law about whether or not you can actually do that, because there have never before been a publisher as evil as HBR.