... so, in other words, the USOC won. They don't care what you call your event, as long as it's not "Olympics".

Rednecks can't count to eight. Trick question.

AverageAmericanGuy: Rednecks can't count to eight. Trick question.

Hahahahahaha!!

Ah the old "That's MY Word!" game.

Only ever becomes a problem when some arsehole is somehow making money with the word.

If the developmentally disabled can call their games Olympics, those individuals of a more rustic persuasion should be able to as well.

Is it too late to register for the sister-humping event?

/Can't wait for the "Watch This" freestyle competition.

Chthonic Echoes: If the developmentally disabled can call their games Olympics, those individuals of a more rustic persuasion should be able to as well.

But you repeat yourself.

Brooks says he's planning on selling t-shirts that read "Redneck ________" with a picture of the word game hangman next to it. He says if the U.S.O.C. asks what goes in the 8 blank spaces after the word "Redneck" he'll say it's "Bull****".

That's also the same image they use to keep people with different colored necks away

Since when is the word "Olympic" a trademark? Why does the USOC allow the Olympic games to be held in other countries?

How about the Retard Olympics, do they have to change their name?

They must not have bribed the committee enough.

Theaetetus: ... so, in other words, the USOC won. They don't care what you call your event, as long as it's not "Olympics".

The United States Olympic Committee has exclusive rights to the word Olympic? Dang it! At least we still have the Redneck World Series and the Redneck Disney World. Wait...wuts that?

They'll probably just change it to Redneck Games like the Gay Olympics did when they were forced to change. Now the Reindeer are gonna get all lawyered up.

/I hope the Greeks are getting a kick out of this

CSB: When Atlanta held the only sanctioned Redneck Olympics in 1996 the I.O.C. went around to every Greek restaurant in the metro area with the word "Olympic" in their name and made them change it, some of these places had been in business 30 years.

Tom_Slick: CSB: When Atlanta held the only sanctioned Redneck Olympics in 1996 the I.O.C. went around to every Greek restaurant in the metro area with the word "Olympic" in their name and made them change it, some of these places had been in business 30 years.

The IOC or the USOC?

Billified: They'll probably just change it to Redneck Games

The Redneck Games are held in Dublin GA

Can someone please tell me how the use of the word "olympics" in this case hurts the USOC as a brand? Other than they aren't getting paid for the right to use a common word? I'm going to trademark "the" and go after them.

I think it's the use of "Redneck" that the USOC objects to. To qualify as a true Redneck Olympics, it would have to be held in Sparta or Athens, Georgia. Maine isn't the first place I'd go looking for rednecks.

If you get your panties are in a wad over the proper use of the world Olympics, you might be a lawyer.

TravisBickle62: How about the Retard Olympics, do they have to change their name?

They already did, it's now known as the Republican National Convention.

AverageAmericanGuy: The IOC or the USOC?

Either or I can't remember. It may have even been ACOG (Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games)

/I ran 5 parking lots for the Olympic Games man they paid extremely well for a 3 month summer job $1400 a week in 1996.

overzealous: Can someone please tell me how the use of the word "olympics" in this case hurts the USOC as a brand? Other than they aren't getting paid for the right to use a common word? I'm going to trademark "the" and go after them.

It's all about the Benjamins. Always has been.

tillerman35: Maine isn't the first place I'd go looking for rednecks.

You know how I can tell you have never been to any part of Maine not on the coast.

So they're naming the event Redneck Bullshiat?

Sounds about right.

tillerman35: I think it's the use of "Redneck" that the USOC objects to. To qualify as a true Redneck Olympics, it would have to be held in Sparta or Athens, Georgia. Maine isn't the first place I'd go looking for rednecks.

Then maybe your eyes are beginning to open to the truth.

If the USOC screws with the Laff-a-Lympics, I might have to do something dastardly.

I thought there was an exception for parody/satire. Isn't that what it is?

So...... "Redneck Bullsh*t"?

Why didn't they just call it that from the get-go?

Teen Wolf Blitzer: TravisBickle62: How about the Retard Olympics, do they have to change their name?

They already did, it's now known as the Republican National Convention.


Excellent.

Nike!

Years ago here the USOC went after some radio station for having the Nude Olympics. I think they ended up changing the name to Nude Limpics. Oh just play redneck games on Wii anyways.

Just call it the Hold My Beer and Watch This Championship.

tillerman35: Maine

I have family in Maine. Yes, there are rednecks there. They might eat lobster and bear instead of squirrel, but they're there.

"Redneck Bullsh*t" - Ah tell you whut, Cletus, you sure done told THEM!

Now hold mah beer, ah'm trainin'.

Teen Wolf Blitzer: TravisBickle62: How about the Retard Olympics, do they have to change their name?

They already did, it's now known as the Republican National Convention.

AverageAmericanGuy: Rednecks can't count to eight. Trick question.

You don't give Rednecks enough credit. It's not that we can't count to eight (really, stop trying to trick us) it's that we count 1...2...3...4...5...6...7...infinity. We're smart enough to know that infinity means forever (even if you city folk write that symbol on its side) so there are only 7 numbers and then anything more is just too big to imagine.

The USOC has a trademark on the use of the term Olympic in the US, but not other countries. Presumably in other countries their Olympic comittee has the trademark. I don't really blame the USOC here for agressively defending their trademark, I blame the laws that force them to. If they didn't then come the Olympics any company could use the phrase or the rings, and all of the sposors who provide the vast majority of the money for the USOC would not longer feel the need to be sponsors.

It also works witht the phrase Super Bowl, the NFL defends that phrase very agressively.

Oh, FARK the Olympics! I had to deal with that bullshiat in 1996. The IOC and USOC are nothing more than money-sucking dilletantes that would sell their mothers vaginas for a dollar.

I guess I believe in trademarks to a degree, but I also believe in the sanctity of the language itself, free from territorial claims. For example, if I were supreme ruler of the world I would grant the right to call your coffee "Maxwell House" but not grant exclusive rights to the phrase "Good to the last drop.". Also, I agree with the concept of Genericization so Kleenex and Xerox would be S.O.L in my court.

I believe we've come to the point where Olympics has been genericized to mean any competition that pits the "best" of an entire segment of the population against each other. The USOC can kleenex my _ _ _.

Next up: It's not a gold medal you won. You need to call it a gilded badge.

Allen. The end.: Oh, FARK the Olympics! I had to deal with that bullshiat in 1996. The IOC and USOC are nothing more than money-sucking dilletantes that would sell their mothers vaginas for a dollar.

Hey now ACOG was at least as corrupt as the IOC and USOC, and they gave us the Blue Sperm mascot.

Damn, I forgot about him! Yeah, those ACOG guys made out like bandits...

"Harold Brooks says this year's "Redneck Olympics" will be three times the size of last year's, and he doesn't care what the U.S. Olympic Committee says about it."



Oh, he WILL care soon enough.

He will.

The Redneck Olympics in question must be a corporation and as such aren't obligated to follow any rules. This'll work, right?

No one should ever be granted exclusive rights to a standard dictionary word. A phrase, maybe, but not a single word.

ReverendJasen: No one should ever be granted exclusive rights to a standard dictionary word. A phrase, maybe, but not a single word.

Why should "World Series" have more protection just because it is multiple words? It's just a label for a popularized event that other people would like to borrow some of that popularity for free and use it for a little while then give it right back.

ReverendJasen: No one should ever be granted exclusive rights to a standard dictionary word.

Would the word "olympics" even be a standard dictionary word had the USOC's parent organization not chosen that reference to Ancient Greece as branding for their international athletic competitions 118 years ago?

/no.

Theaetetus: ... so, in other words, the USOC won. They don't care what you call your event, as long as it's not "Olympics".

Done in one. USOC: "We don't care if you don't like it, rednecks, We just care that you stop using it. You've stopped. We're happy. You can whine all you want."