<VV> The price of synthetic oil...

Frank DuVal corvairduval at cox.net
Sun Mar 18 19:14:00 EST 2007


However, the Olympic committee did give a local auto parts chain enough 
grief that the name was changed from

Olympic Auto Parts

to

Olympus Auto Parts


Frank DuVal

airvair wrote:

>Bob,
>
>Thanks for the legal update. Hadn't heard about it, but it figures.
>Sounds a little like what Congress did with the name "olympic" back a
>number of years ago. Seems the gay community was organizing an "olympic"
>set of athletic competitions for gay athletes, and Congress got miffed
>about it. So they passed a law that handed the USOC and IOC exclusive
>rights to the name "olympic", which allowed the USOC/IOC to sue the Gay
>Olympics. Ever since it's had to be called the "Gay Games." Odd though,
>since the USOC/IOC sued almost nobody else over it. They didn't even sue
>the Olympia Brewing Company. And they STILL haven't sued the "Special
>Olympics", probably because the PR on it would make them look like the
>Grinch. LOL
>
>-Mark
>
>  
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