I have, so far, not joined in the pile-on Charles Carreon that resulted when he sent his ill-considered demand letter to The Oatmeal. I did, however, fear that The Oatmeal might not be represented by good counsel who knew how to crush the demand.
I stand corrected, as I have discovered that The Oatmeal is represented by none other than Venkat Balasubramani, who will lay a motherfucking smackdown if you make him. While The Oatmeal’s response is funnier, Venkat brings his A-Game here.
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[…] Second Edit: Randazza has a link to The Oatmeal's attorney's response letter, which is quite good. […]
He should now be Venkat “The Pterodactyl” Balasubramani…
:)
The Oatmeal’s level of fantabulous snark is right up there with you and Ken at Popehat. I think the three of you should write a book called “Snarky Responses to Censorious Asshats for Dummies”. You would make a fortune which you could donate to good causes.
unfortunately the response appears to be buried inside of scribd (sort of a “roach hotel” for documents — they check in and do not check out absent some sort of unpleasant flash/javascript nastiness)
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Now lets see the results of the oatmeal responding..lol
I sent Mr. Carron a copy of the Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossacks
I wonder if he’ll look it up, and figure out the current relevence.
Oh, that’s priceless. :-)
…and thanks for the WIkipedia link! I didn’t know the story of the Cossacks’ Reply (much less the Ilya Repin painting), and found it fascinating…
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I actually preferred the Cossacks’ reply much more than Mrs. Carreon’s infantile reply… They definitely knew how to push a Sultan’s buttons back then!