tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post2083675035052229363..comments2024-03-29T06:00:27.896+00:00Comments on The IPKat: Pet Rock: The most implausible toy fad ever?Verónica Rodríguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-55213955440491659172016-01-02T19:32:41.930+00:002016-01-02T19:32:41.930+00:00Bureau-crazy says…
@ Jeremy
“I used my Pet Rock ...Bureau-crazy says…<br /><br />@ Jeremy<br /><br />“I used my Pet Rock as an intellectual property teaching aid both for several years until first the instruction manual and later the rock itself were handed round for inspection and discussion but never quite returned ....<br /><br />I still miss my Pet Rock, even though I never named him/her/it.”<br />I use my pet stone collection to understand the EPO strategy and love to play chess with them and included anthropomorphic fossils, granite and gemstones. I have named them all top down. Here it is….<br /><br />Another IP Pet stone teaching aid…<br /><br />Opposite rows of EPO pet stone faces, eerily looking the same,<br />Vulnerably standing, with no fear or shame.<br /><br />The polished granite BB is calm and quiet, he captures and resurrect the opposition with speed.<br />Short on time and energy, filled with anger and greed and for explaining the rules there is no need.<br /><br />The pyrite EB beside him controlling, no where she can't go,<br />She promotes with mighty vengeance, a smooth ebb and flow.<br /><br />The fossilized VP4 is almighty; hoping none of them will fall.<br />Crossing back and forth, giving his blessings to them all.<br /><br />The Gemstone EPO is our tower, hidden, way off to the side.<br />It's there BB and goons can castle if they need somewhere to hide.<br /><br />I watch the game play out before me, strategy and endurance.<br />With a rhythmic to and fro, the battle is more than the usual bureau-crazy dance.<br /><br />Protect BB King at all costs, that is the marble AC’s passionate creed.<br />Give to him our fossilized faithfulness and he will return our need.<br /><br />Each of us are gemstones, we all play a key role to EPO’s winning.<br />I’am polished and will provide for us, BB tells us at the beginning.<br /><br />When a black fossilized IU stood in front of me, with its steel sword drawn.<br />I realized right then and there, all I was is just another gemstone pawn.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-2468445709206548032016-01-02T16:18:16.319+00:002016-01-02T16:18:16.319+00:00From Pet Rock to Bottled Air : http://www.dailymai...From Pet Rock to Bottled Air : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2271690/Bottled-AIR-Chinese-multimillionaire-sells-EIGHT-MILLION-cans-fresh-air-TEN-DAYS-pollution-levels-climb-record-high.html : linked by the fact IP law can do nothing to help with "the idea as such" ? Other examples ?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17547963789032954274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-78072382553522463512015-12-31T10:05:24.391+00:002015-12-31T10:05:24.391+00:00It makes one think about the function of the econo...It makes one think about the function of the economy to satisfy 'needs'. Steve Jobs believed in satisfying 'needs' which people could not articulate (they wanted all the functions of an iPhone, but not in a way they could ask for in a questionnaire). The issue of rocks, etc, opens up the issue of whether we have needs we are not aware or conscious of, and even of whether clever marketing can give us new 'needs'. How all this is used by goverment, media etc to manipulate us is another relevant issue.Brainwashingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-70087143400627713412015-12-30T17:19:38.060+00:002015-12-30T17:19:38.060+00:00In the winter of 1975, while studying at UCLA unde...In the winter of 1975, while studying at UCLA under the late, great Melville B. Nimmer, I purchased a Pet Rock for five US dollars. The story that then accompanied this product was that it was the most successful outcome of a college assignment to find something utterly worthless -- in this case individual pebbles from Rosarito beach -- and devise a way of marketing them profitably.<br /><br />The product was excellent. Each pebble came in a durable cardboard box, perforated with hole to allow the rock to breathe, and the instruction booklet was written in better, more intelligible English than is normally found today. <br /><br />I used my Pet Rock as an intellectual property teaching aid both for several years until first the instruction manual and later the rock itself were handed round for inspection and discussion but never quite returned ....<br /><br />I still miss my Pet Rock, even though I never named him/her/it. Jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01123244020588707776noreply@blogger.com