I don't know how many of you are aware of internet prankster David Thorne, but he's been having a bit of a running battle with Penguin Books over trademark infringement. See here for the amusing correspondence:-
I LOVE David Thorne's writing. LOVE! I tell my friends IRL and none of them seem to get him like I do.
I have his website bookmarked and check for updates almost daily. Sometimes you have to be quick - he will post but then take it down within a couple of days.
Sometimes I wonder how David Thorne has so much time to devote to annoying people through the written word. But then do my thing here, so I can't be hypocritical.
Funny - but on this one I wondered why he didn't ask the guy if the light could be angled a bit first?
I know, less funny - but I'm kinda thinking that if David Thorne moved in next to me, it'd be hard to imagine I wouldn't piss him off in some way. I'd surely see some posting about my annoying dog and children or some such, you know? People do annoying things - even the ones you like.
I find myself annoyed by pretty much anyone I spend more than a few hours with, with the exception of about 6 people, and even they bug me sometimes too.
Some people go long stretches without annoying me, only to outright perturb me for a significant period. It then takes me years to forget the perturbation.
As we are moving in a few weeks to larger premises with less neighbours, the last night we are here I intend to shoot the fat redheaded dog with a paint-ball gun, moon the old couple, and steal everything in Justin's front yard that isn't bolted down because that is pretty much standard operating procedure in Australia.
