Unbelievable cougar controversy

gotta love Political Correctness!

Ironically, instead "the board members chose a war horse as the school mascot " -- definition of war horse from Urban Dictionary:
Typically bartenders married to the bar's owner and older divorced women, war horses are a special breed. They have years of experience under their belt and are always looking for more. You can recognize them by their cock-trodden faces. They still have a hot body but beware of surgery, c-sections, old boyfriend's name tattoos, and huge meat drapes
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:D
 
Instead of cougar they should have picked another cat without any political controversy associated with it. Maybe they could have been the "Black Panthers". No controversial political connections there.
 
azcheetah2 said:
Are they suggesting, then, that Mountain Lions no longer be called Cougars since it might be offensive?
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that is absolutely correct. Furthermore, Mountain Lion itself has a double problem: they aren't true lions, and the "mountain" appellation could easily be offensive to Ozark hillbillies.

Panther is also unacceptable (especially not Florida Panther, or Flo Rida will no doubt have something to say about it!), and the regional derivation "Painter" can't be used either (although "artist" is a possible alternative, although then Prince might have objections; the music industry is renowned for suing animals I hear)

They must henceforth be called Pumas, but royalties should really be paid to the shoe manufacturer.
 
Chlidonias said:
Panther is also unacceptable (especially not Florida Panther, or Flo Rida will no doubt have something to say about it!), and the regional derivation "Painter" can't be used either (although "artist" is a possible alternative, although then Prince might have objections; the music industry is renowned for suing animals I hear)

They must henceforth be called Pumas, but royalties should really be paid to the shoe manufacturer.
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Felis concolor should be suing the shoe company and middle age women who stalk young men for image protection and copyright infringement.

The flamingo species of the world should get together and initiate a class action copyright infringement lawsuit against the lawn ornament industry.

The jaguars, impalas, and falcon species should initiate legal action against the automobile makers that have filched their respective identities.

With the proceeds from the legal actions which these species would no doubt win they can buy back their habitat and hire anti-poaching patrols in perpetuity.
 
DavidBrown said:
The flamingo species of the world should get together and initiate a class action copyright infringement lawsuit against the lawn ornament industry.
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they would need a very good lawyer for that action. Although artificial flamingoes are (to any neutral observer) quite obviously copied from the living flamingoes, the lawn ornament industry will claim that although superficially similar they are in fact not particularly accurate representations and therefore cannot be considered as infringements of copyright. This all goes back to the landmark Simpsons vs Family Guy case of a few years ago.
 
Chlidonias said:
they would need a very good lawyer for that action. Although artificial flamingoes are (to any neutral observer) quite obviously copied from the living flamingoes, the lawn ornament industry will claim that although superficially similar they are in fact not particularly accurate representations and therefore cannot be considered as infringements of copyright. This all goes back to the landmark Simpsons vs Family Guy case of a few years ago.
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I don't think I'm aware of that particular case. I usually keep current with such major lawsuits like that, but I must have missed the Simpsons vs Family Guy one. I'll be it was messy!

Well, Mountain Lions can't be called Mountain Screamers because, like Chlidonias stated, the whole Ozark thing and while they do make a sound that resembles a scream, the Hollywood writers responsible for the Scream movies might think it infringes on THEIR copyright.
 
azcheetah2 said:
I don't think I'm aware of that particular case. I usually keep current with such major lawsuits like that, but I must have missed the Simpsons vs Family Guy one. I'll be it was messy!
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I made that up ;)

Another example I could have used was the Chris Rock vs Chris Tucker case of 2003, where nothing was settled because the jury couldn't tell which was the defendant and which was the complainant, and they couldn't understand what either of them was saying anyway....
 
Chlidonias said:
I made that up ;)

Another example I could have used was the Chris Rock vs Chris Tucker case of 2003, where nothing was settled because the jury couldn't tell which was the defendant and which was the complainant, and they couldn't understand what either of them was saying anyway....
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hahahaha. I kind of figured it was something like that...I was playing along.

The Chris Rock vs Chris Tucker is funny
 
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