Posted on 02/10/2015 4:41:43 AM PST by bmwcyle
RICHMOND, Va. — The maker of Red Bull energy drinks is challenging a Virginia craft brewery’s use of the word “ox” in its brand name.
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Different animals
ping
Better call Saul.
If there is no team of lawyers, Red Bull strikes.
“ox and a bull are both considered bovine animals and are virtually indistinguishable to most consumers.”
So is a heifer and a steer, they’re cows too. The author
probably doesn’t know that an Ox is a steer that didn’t
go to the slaughter house. Anyone who confuses an ox with a
bull is blind or ignorant. Red Bull is just being an Obama
style ass on this.
Could be this fellow:
A Federal Agent talks with an old rancher, and tells him." I need to inspect your ranch for illegally grown drugs".
The rancher says, " Okay, but do not go in that field over there," as he is pointing out the location.
The agent verbally explodes saying, "Mister, I have the authority of the federal government with me". Reaching into his rear pants pocket, and proudly displays it to the rancher. " See the badge old man? This badge means I am allowed to go on any land ... have I made myself clear".
The rancher apologizes, nods and goes about his chores.
A short time later the old rancher hears loud screaming, looks up and sees the police officer running in front of the farmers Santa Gertrudis bull. With every step the officer makes the bull gains two, only seconds before the bull reaches him. The rancher drops his tools and stands up and yells. "Your badge, Show him your badge!"
LOL
Ashburn's (Virginia) beginnings trace back to the 1720s, when Thomas Lee and Robert Carter tried to outwit each other by buying up strategic pieces of the Virginia countryside. Each sought to control the commercial destiny of the colony. Lee, influenced by Britain's success on the seas, held the theory that control of the waterways equaled control of the colony. Belmont, Lee's grandson's Ashburn estate, is situated near the Potomac River and Goose Creek.
Carter, nicknamed "King" because he owned vast quantities of land, felt destiny would reward the man who controlled land transportation, so he purchased land that controlled the approaches to mountain passes. For example Oatlands, built by one of Carter's descendants, stands at the foot of Mount Gilead.
In the early 1700s, the Lees appeared to be winning and owned most of the tobacco warehouses along the Potomac. Carter, meanwhile, was forced to roll his lots of tobacco down to Lee's warehouse at present-day Chain Bridge. It didn't take long for Carter to feel that Lee was overcharging him for storage and loading.
Carter told his servants to build a road from his tobacco warehouse at Occoquan to Vestal's Gap Road (later known as Route 7). The Ox Road, (alternatively, Frying Pan Road from Carter's Frying Pan copper mines), was started in 1728 near present-day Occoquan/Woodbridge and was finally connected to Vestal's Gap Road in the late 1740s by Carter's son, "King" Carter having died in 1732.
Just wide enough for an ox cart, the Ox Road likely passed through Herndon on what is now Frying Pan Road and entered the Ashburn area via present-day Shellhorn Road, then swung north on what is now Ashburn Road (Route 641) and then east on Stubble Road (Stunkle Road or Route 647), crossing Goose Creek at Hough's Mill around the year 1765.
Ox Road let Carter's Loudoun County tobacco plantations send tobacco down to Occoquan by land, bypassing Lee's warehousing and shipping concerns on the Potomac, thus granting the Carter family the last laugh. Until 1820, that is, when Leesburg Turnpike sent Ox Road into dusty oblivion as a major east-west trade route.
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Old Ox wrote quite a letter.
http://allaboutbeer.com/red-bulls-lawsuit-virginia-brewery/
Thanks, Ironman
We lived in No VA for many years and know these routes well....
Thanks for this post of the history...I love it!
Nice to know....
Hardly breaking news. Geesh, how are standards have dropped.
It is breaking. We are trying to defend this company. I know these people. Go away.
I’ve never tried Red Bull’s products,now I’m sure that I never will.
Nobody likes a bully,this could come back to bite them big time.
The local zoning board is trying to shut down my best friend’s business. Should I post this as breaking news? Oh, and my neighbor’s cat has eleven toes...
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