Oolite Bulletins

Following on from earlier silly-season stories it now seems that the Wise Men of the USPTO have allowed Amazon to patent the Milkman.

That tutting noise you made when you read that story ... I own that, by the way. Tsk™, Tut™, Choh™, Pff™, Tch™, Blowingairoutyournose™ - they're all mine. And their derivative works.

This'll be one of the last chapters in Tool-Using Cultures of the Upper Pleistocene vol XII: Capitalism: the Great Bagsy-Frenzy of the 21st Century, when everyone stopped doing everything and just rushed around the world putting dibs on stuff.

Stop breaching my rights, guys. That language that you are speaking/writing/thinking (commonly known as English) is now owned solely by me. If you dare to use one word of English from this moment on (even misspealled), I will be suing you.

<chuckles> Now the word Python is being trademarked apparently - El Reg, of course!