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Trav_b
Trav_b aka Travis Brannaman is a 25.65 year old boy, has been a member since January 25, 2007, has scored 1,480 submissions, giving an average score of 2.27, helping 22 designs get printed.
"So far this is oldest i've been" is a George Carlin rip off!!!
i just read the quote in his book napalm and silly putty. it's the exact quote, and i'm positive he said it first, the designer read it in his book, and claimed it as her own. plagerism blows. credit where credit is do please, for christ's sake, it's fucking carlin! you can't disrespect a legend like that. wooo, what a rant. does anyone else agree? or disagree?

deboraborialis
deboraborialis on May 25 '07 at 5:51am
Slogans are supposed to be all of your own work. Don't know nothing about disrespectin'.
Trav_b
Trav_b on May 25 '07 at 5:56am
i think stealing someones itellectual property and claiming it as your own is disrespectful. don't you?
deboraborialis
deboraborialis on May 25 '07 at 6:00am
It's theft. It's a crime. I guess all crimes are disrespecful in some way.
Trav_b
Trav_b on May 25 '07 at 6:01am
yes i suppose, except for those very few victimless crimes, like smokin herb. legalize it! anyways, this shirt should be discontiued, you think so? or at least get his permission
2 days later
litlnemo
litlnemo on May 27 '07 at 7:07pm
But phrases can't be copyrighted. (Seriously. You could look it up.) Carlin has no specific right to this sentence, just to the combination of this sentence with the rest of his text. And in fact it's pretty darn easy to come up with any given phrase on one's own. So I'd give the designer the benefit of the doubt here.



(Bonus points to anyone who knows who famously said "You could look it up"!)
roboroller
roboroller on May 27 '07 at 7:14pm
yeah, i mean...big ups to george carlin...but its a cute shirt, not a peice of art, and i don't see what the big deal is. (shrugs)
J-Ray
J-Ray on May 27 '07 at 7:35pm
If George had made it into a shirt, then you'd have a case!



But yeah.. Nearly every combination of words you could say has been made already.
3 days later
Golly-Loli
Golly-Loli on May 31 '07 at 7:31pm
But this pharse works for a shirt. You know?
Ste7en
   Ste7en on May 31 '07 at 7:33pm
Didnt carlin say "I have" and not "i've"...I could be wrong...HUGE DIFFERENCE RIGHT THERE
13 days later
chealsye
chealsye on Jun 14 '07 at 1:10am
it isn't that he said it before, it's that the person got money for submitting it as their own.

some of the current slogans are a bunch of mitch hedberg lines. i would love shirts like that, but the thing i find wrong with it is that someone else is making money off someone else's words.
35 days later
jrex76
jrex76 on Jul 19 '07 at 6:35pm
The legal terms say that a slogan cannot be previously published. If it's in a book, it's both published, AND copyrighted.
566 days later
Morr
Morr on Feb 05 '09 at 1:21am
no law suit will ever be over 9 words

hes used these exact words in a few of his acts though
609 days later
eyegill
eyegill on Oct 07 '10 at 9:13pm
I wish I could get $500 for submitting George Carlin quotes. Plagiarism pays.
xiv
   xiv on Oct 07 '10 at 9:15pm
ahaha
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