''Vols for Bush'' stickers banned

WBIR-TV ^ | 09/29/2004 | WBIR-TV

[johnnyb325]

Big Orange fans making a push for President Bush handed out 24,000 "Vols for Bush" stickers at recent UT home games. The Bush campaign in East Tennessee had them printed, but supporters can forget about scoring one now. "They're a hot collector's item now, but unfortunately, we'll hold on to them and not give anymore out," says Gary Drinnen, a Bush Campaign Coordinator for this region. UT's trademark licensing office has two problems with the "Vols for Bush" stickers. The word "Vols" and the orange and white checkerboard... two distinctive UT symbols. Michael Young, coordinator of the UT trademark licensing office says the University feels the stickers represent an implied endorsement of a candidate and that can't be. John Brown of UT's College Republicans was among those handing out the stickers before losing possession. "The officer showed us a badge and took us to the side and said the violate copyright law and they're illegal and we shouldn't be passing them out and he confiscated them," says Brown. The local Bush campaign says it's shaking off this turnover. It's designed a new play in the form of an orange and white sticker that just says "W, the president." It does not violate UT policy. The College Republicans say they'll be handing out the new "W the President" stickers on campus before the Auburn game this Saturday.

[loftyheights]

Go Auburn and Go W!

[Aracelis]

Not the most impressive of creatures, but they're good parents.

[BurbankKarl]

there you go...as long as you werent selling them I dont think you would have gotten in big trouble....but they did have a right to confiscate them....especially on state property.

college football is all about the $$$ now.

(Of course, my alma mater University of Washington my go after you for the W...haha)

[epow]

Simple solution: White letering on orange field reading "VOLUNTEERS FOR BUSH"

Right. It's surprising that folks smart enough to be backing Bush would be too dumb to come up with that simple answer to the problem.

But I can't feel sorry for them. Those same folks had the unmitigated gall to raucously celebrate a bogus "win" that was stolen from the FL Gators a couple of weeks ago and brazenly handed to the Vols in plain sight on national TV by an obviously partisan official. That outrage HAS to be avenged, and it will be, count on it.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Vol from volunteer is a nickname for the state as a whole. I believe it originated in the volunteers for the War of 1812 but I could be wrong. I think I might have read an old state history which said the name originated in the Spanish-American War. I think there's a misconception that it came from the Civil War. But Tennessee was a divided sate in that conflict. Abraham Lincoln and the Union had no stronger supporters than the mountain East Tennessee Unionists. The Confederacy talked hard about the right to secession, but they didn't extend that same right to East Tennessee which wished to split from the rest of the state and remain in the Union.

[SAJ]

Hey, mate -- in my business, VOL is just the distribution of risk around the mean. ''GO VOLS'' would be something that someone who had bought a LOT of options would say...and has nothing to do with the estimable state of Tennessee, or that peculiar and presumed institution of ''higher'' learning in Knoxville.

(dons GATech coloured flameproof suit and Commodore body armour)

Minor historical note: attended Vanderbilt in the very year WHEN Gork flunked out of Divinity school (this is quite literally impossible unless the alleged D-student refuses to attend classes and/or gets caught in flagrante delicto with a sheep). BTW, the Ds occupied one building in Kissam Quad back then, the freshman dorms...and we ALL gave these, er, persons a wide berth.

[Notwithstanding]

Since when do the police interpret complex issues of copyright law?

Last time I checked, courts take their time before ruling whether or not a copyright has been infringed.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Those same folks had the unmitigated gall to raucously celebrate a bogus "win" that was stolen from the FL Gators a couple of weeks ago and brazenly handed to the Vols in plain sight on national TV by an obviously partisan official.

I'll agree that wasn't a good call by the official. But we don't know for sure whether UT wouldn't have still won the game if the ref had called offsetting penalties for the altercation. There was still time in the game. The Vols would have had to go farther, it would have been harder, but UT could still have won the game.

Of course football is just a preliminary for the the most important sport, men's college basketball. Go Buzzball!

[norton]

I didn't know voles could vote?

[Mustng959]

Being a Tennessean that bleeds orange, the UT admin does need to get off their "high-horsin' liberal" kick. It is a good-looking sticker though!

Auburn who? [sarcasm]

[starvingstudent]

Who rote this? The grammer and punuashion are terribul.

[Vol2727]

This Vol is for Bush. Man, I would have loved to have one of those stickers.

BTW, we're gonna kick some War Eagle butt! Go Vols!!

[Martin Tell]

I believe it originated in the volunteers for the War of 1812

As I recall my Tennessee history, it was the Mexican-American War - Tennesseans following in the footsteps of David Crockett and James Bowie. Footnote: I recently heard a news report that Tennessee is way down the list in numbers of military volunteers today.

About the sticker, I think the real problem with trademark/copyright law is the use of the orange checkerboard. I would assume that UT has the checkerboard trademarked and when used in conjunction with "VOLS," it's a pretty clear violation.

Anyone can make their own "W" sticker of any color they wish. I made some "W" stickers on my PC, mounted them on magnets (so there is no damage to my car's paint), and they work fine, but the color ran in the rain.

Finally, WAR EAGLE! Knoxville is tough place to play, but I hope on Sunday, Tennessee is full of Vols-in-tears.

[Blogger]

That's definately the big orange!

By the way, I went in an Israel chatroom last night to ask them about the other one. They said it could mean go to the calendar or go to the chalkboard, take your pick.

Later on!
Blogger

[bert]

Interesting post.

One wonder if Kerry ever comes to East Tennessee he will have to wear makeup to cover his Big Orange skin.

[bert]

.....What the hell is a Vol?.....

A Vol is a Texas maker.

Texas was made by Tennessee Volunteers.....

[epow]

But we don't know for sure whether UT wouldn't have still won the game if the ref had called offsetting penalties for the altercation

Yeah, well, OK, I guess that's right, maybe, or not, mumble, mumble, grumble....(that's the sound of me trying to be a good sport)

Actually, I don't take college football nearly as seriously as I did when I was younger, but my daughter is a true-blue dyed-in-the-wool Gator fan and she is still livid over that call.

[Melinda in TN]

While I love my state, Knoxville is very liberal and the college is the most liberal of all. It sickened me to see the limp wrist crowd in Knoxville cheering Al Gore on in 2000. If you take away Knoxville, Nashville, Chattanooga and Memphis, the rest of the state is very conservative.

Anyway, I had my camera phone with me today and found this in the parking lot at work. I happen to know the man that drives this car. He wrecked his and had to borrow his father's car and couldn't stomach driving it with that nasty sticker in the window. :-) He's a veteran and sportsman for Bush and proud of it!

[Thinkin' Gal]

>>>By the way, I went in an Israel chatroom last night to ask them about the other one. They said it could mean go to the calendar or go to the chalkboard, take your pick. <<<

I now know. It meant to go to the calendar. I think the dream occurred circa October 10-12, 2001. I won't know for sure until I get my other computer back. That would have been around the time of Simchat Torah and the beginning of the new Torah reading cycle, Parshat Bereshit. "Luach" is also the word used for table, as in the tablets of the Law.

03871 luwach {loo'-akh} or luach {loo'-akh}
from a primitive root; TWOT - 1091a; n m

AV - tables 38, boards 4, plates 1; 43

1) board, slab, tablet, plank
1a) tablets (of stone)
1b) boards (of wood)
1c) plate (of metal)

A "time times and half" could refer to 3.5 annual readings of the Torah and Neviim, the *Law and Prophets*, aka two witnesses.


Daniel 12:5 Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river.
Daniel 12:6 And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?
Daniel 12:7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.

scatter:

05310 naphats {naw-fats'}

a primitive root; TWOT - 1394; v

AV - break in pieces 9, scatter 3, break 3, dash 2, discharged 1,
dispersed 1, overspread 1, dash in pieces 1, sunder 1; 22

1) to shatter, break, dash, beat in pieces
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to shatter
1a2) shattering (infinitive)
1b) (Piel) to dash to pieces
1c) (Pual) to pulverise
2) to scatter, disperse, overspread, be scattered
2a) (Qal)
2a1) to be scattered
2a2) dispersed (participle)


Kind of like what happens to people in a plane crash. Trying to land a 737 here is probably not a good idea:

http://www.bigbearcityairport.com/index.html

And judging from the dream along with this map, the inbound plane was following the outbound path for runway 26 (YHVH), IOW going the wrong way towards 26 (YHVH):

http://www.bigbearcityairport.com/flight26.html

If you extend the outbound arrow a few miles, that's where the highest elevation (summit) of the road (highway 18 IIRC) is. That's where I was located in the dream, looking east (towards Zion), with a line of sight right down that blue line which bisects the lake.

I wonder what the weather will be like in the spring. That plane went down on a Sabbath morning at 9:15.

Oh, it's just a dream. Nothing to see here just move along.

[Redbob]

ya got some real old 'news' here.