Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 23, 2024

M – I – C …

Whereas sports agents will go from island to island hoping to find and sign an undiscovered athletic talent.

Well that, and nobody cares about them.

Who in their right mind rescues them?

A wise man once told me (an anyone else within hearing) “Don’t ask permission; do it (whatever that may be) and apologise later.” Works every time.

when i was young, there were jokes about the unscrupulous real estate con-artists selling swampland in florida. then years later disney world opened.

Looks like Steamboat Willie to me. Go for it.

Find the island where it looks like Mickey from 1928 and they’ll be fine.

Yes, but then other lawyers will come faster you.

Disney lawyers are notorious for going after perceived copyright infringement regarding their cartoon characters, no matter how small the offense.

I didn’t see Mickey, I saw a poor silhouette of someone playing guitar…

Looks like Rat from PBS to me

Could also be that no one is missing them or looking for them

Put your money where your mouse is.

Didn’t that one recently expire?

I guess the bigger question is, why would you bother rescuing them?

Those guys seem to have a strange set of rules on who to pick on. They jumped on a library with a mouse mascot that didn’t look anything like theirs beyond being a mouse, but apparently certain “parodies” for “entertainment purposes” (with better lawyers?) get a pass.

Then you have the problem of finding people who want to rescue entertainment lawyers.

Sometimes Disney is very generous with its intellectual property. Google the “U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory” and “Mickey”

No matter where or why, there is always someone willing and ready to blame/accuse/sue.

That’s why God invented sharks……

OK, stay with me. Yes, I see MM, but try this out. I see King Kong! Especially given the locale. KK is facing us at a slight angle. Mickey’s “top” ear is KK’s head. Mickey’s nose is KK’s left arm. Mickey’s other ear is KK’s right arm. Well, that’s what I saw at first, and no, there were no hallucinogens involved…

Oh, I thought the issue was a lack of motivation.

True story. A man named Gimbel opened a shop in Boothbay Harbor, Maine and put his name on it in the seventies. The Gimbel’s department store in New York, which had been bought by a conglomerate based in London, sued him trying to have their name removed from his store. The negative image of the behemoth going after the little guy caused the lawyers to reach a settlement. He could keep his own name on his own store as long as he made it clear that he wasn’t part of the big Gimbel’s. A sign over his door stated that the store was not associated with Gimbel’s of New York. Some years later, after the big store had declared bankruptcy and closed, Mr. Gimbel’s son purchased the trademark. Anyone who wants to use the name has to pay him a fee. The sign over the door was changed to read: NOW associated with Gimbel’s of New York!

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Yes, the original Mickey Mouse from the 1928 cartoon Steamboat Willie entered the public domain on January 1, 2024.This means that the original Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, and Peg Leg Pete are free from copyright.

Anyone in the U.S. can use the Steamboat Willie version of Mickey Mouse without fear of copyright infringement. People can incorporate clips of Steamboat Willie in art projects or sell T-shirts reproducing a frame from the movie.

the other way around makes sense. If they want to be found ’**that** is the place to go.

That should allow Disney lawyers to find them sooner.

It might be worth stopping by that island to see if you can score some certains substances

Rescue? A lawyer? Does not compute…

When I saw what looked like ears I knew it was Mickey Mouse. Btw the original Steamboat Willie from 1928 with the white gloves’ copyright ended last year. I have a commemorative sweater I bought in 1989 that says Steamboat Willie 1928-1988 in blue and red with Mickey driving in front just like the Black and White one from 1928 but his gloves are black, the steering wheel is yellow and is on the sleeves with Mickey’s face inside and 1928 left of the wheel and 1988 on the right. The colors are still bright since it was hardly worn.

If a Disney Cruise Line finds you first, I hear they beat you to death with the Mickey Mouse Club.

I gave Miller a lecture once about putting periods in SOS, but I’ll do it again.

I have said this many times, there are no periods in SOS. SOS doesn’t stand for anything. It doesn’t mean “save our souls” or “save our ship” or any such rot. SOS is an international distress call and this may come as a surprise to you, but not everyone in the world speaks English. The first country to use SOS was Germany, but SOS doesn’t work in German, it would be RUS, the French would be sending SNN and the Italians would send SLNN, so much for an international distress call. My gosh, don’t those idiots know how to speak English? SOS was adopted long before there was voice radio communications at all, just radio telegraphy. SOS was adopted because of its simplicity in Morse code, 3 dots 3 dashes 3 dots. Check out the movie “A Night to Remember”, the Morse actually legitimate. Look up SOS in Wikipedia.

Nah, Disney’s owned that island for years. Be prepared for expensive food and lodging.

Yeah, this comic is definitely adrift ! Happy Weekend ! ;-)

Just this week I saw many real items for sale that are as blatant as this island. Generic mouse ears and window cling silhouettes that didn’t bear a Disney copyright. And SO MANY Stich costumes and prints. I guess if they don’t mention D-i-s-n-e-y in the description no one will notice.

And then yesterday I saw a Breaking Bad Crystal Ship with no copyright acknowledgement to Sony. There was no W on the side of the vehicle, so no acknowledgement to Winnebago. It was made up of small plastic bricks, but it was not Lego.

Somewhere in the Florida (mic)Keys.

ABBA’s lawyers want to have a word with you about that pennant on your raft…

Mickey is now free! Copyright expired! A little…

Another reason is: No one wants to.

Is there a Steamboat Willie island?