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June 3, 2008
We get threatening email: From Jim Wysopal, inventor of the bottle opener hat
It came in precisely 54 minutes ago and appears above and to the right in the Comments section.
My computer started smoking and sparking, so great was Jim's incoming rage about my January 21, 2008 post featuring his superb creation.
Yo, dude:
1) I don't have to take your cap off my website — in fact, look below: there it is again!
2) I can't stop selling them — because I never started!
Sheesh.
Cease and desist, my patootie.
It's amazing to me how inventors seem so intent on sandbagging themselves and making it really hard to succeed.
Jim should be asking me how much he should pay me for giving him major-league visibility for nothing — twice now.
Every day I turn down serious money from companies who want to advertise on bookofjoe.
Yet when I give someone prime real estate — free! — I get "Dude, you are a thief."
Take a
pill.
...................
This just in: Team B down in the sub-basement asked the question, "What if Jim is a lot smarter than you (faint praise indeed — but I digress) and fired off that irate comment knowing how predictable you are and that you'd respond by doubling down on his invention?"
More power to him, if that's the case.
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You should post the bottle-opener hat every day for the rest of this blog's life. In yo FACE, Jim!
Posted by: Maureen | Jun 3, 2008 11:41:27 PM
You know the problem with patents are most of the people that 'invent' things like this are idiots. I have a great friend who is a patent attorney (among other things) and I've run into his clients with him every so often. Without doubt, unless they are a corporation, they are generally some hillbilly with an idiotic idea that is sooooo bad that no one else ever thought to lay claim to the idea even though it is obvious.
I wouldn't be surprised to see that 'Jim' were just that...him and his patent # 7,284,284 .
Pretty much, looking at the patent, he uses someone elses idea and simply attaches it to something else. This should have been turned down pretty readily.
Posted by: clifyt | Jun 3, 2008 6:00:26 PM
Let's see, there's the cap and the belt buckle... Has no one invented a bottle opener watch band, or ring, or bikini (don't ask), or sunglasses? Well, if they haven't, let's just go ahead and say that I'M the inventory of those gadgets, and then we'll say that Joe would probly feature them on his blog to show the kinds of genius readers his blog attracts, and so I'll just go ahead and call Joe a thief right now, to get it out of the way, and tell him to stop hawking my stuff, so he can tell me he isn't and wasn't and I'm a big idiot, anyhow, and then I can say "Oh...well, okay then. Thanks!"
Posted by: Flautist | Jun 3, 2008 4:23:55 PM
He's not the inventor....read his comment. He's the inventory!
Posted by: Virginia | Jun 3, 2008 3:37:15 PM
Poor, ineffectual Jim: My bottle has me attached to it--it doesn't need a hat.
Posted by: teg | Jun 3, 2008 2:46:56 PM
I had previously invented a bottle opener with a hat attached to it. Do I have an actionable grievance with Jim? Granted it was a top hat and the bottle opener was just a piece of rubber only good for helping remove stubborn twist top bottle caps, but still proof of design albeit backwards and fairly ineffectual.
Unfortunately I employed similar business savvy and acumen as Jim and refused to allow anyone to see let alone advertise for free my invention.
Posted by: Albert | Jun 3, 2008 2:03:55 PM
Really, the nerve of some people... and though a plausible conjecture on Team B's part, the putz who obviously has time to invent a bottle opener cap would have to KNOW even a smidgen about Joe and his changeling personality, to anticipate what the more assiduous readers of this blog would imagine his response to be. Ergo, I believe he had no clue what he capped away.
Posted by: Milena | Jun 3, 2008 1:54:43 PM
In honor of Jim, I just invented a bottle opener attached to a bottle of Valium.
Posted by: JMT | Jun 3, 2008 12:14:10 PM
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