I just found out that I was on TV – it was the Gruen Planet (it is a media watch kind of program – I do watch it but I missed that episode). Would have been funny if a bunch of my str8 mates were in the house when it came on and it mentioned “Dave Evans, bisexual blogger” – I’m not sure I would have been able to contain myself and just start dancing saying “THAT’s ME, THAT’s ME, THAT’s ME!!!!”
I’m pretty sure my folks watch it but I don’t think they’ll put the two together. The comment on the TV show was “Who else wears speedos but gay guys!!!” and a general consensus that the blog was doing good things for the ‘Speedo’ brand.
I did recieve an email from the Evil Speedo Corporations lawyers. I can program in 4 different languages but this thing reads like double-dutch to me. I have no idea what it means other than it is bad. They want the AussieSpeedoGuy.org domain name. So for the last few months I’ve been running this site on AussieSpeedoGuy.org – in the next 24hrs Kip will change it over so only the new one works.
This way hopefully anyone who has this in their favourites will be able to update it before they steal it from me.
One thing I did pick up in the legal jargon was that the judge didn’t read my email to him. He said he received it but he chose not to read it. A quote from the judge “Little reliance can, in any event, be placed upon email communications.” The judge seemed to accept blog posts of mine from months and even years back as evidence but when I sent him a personal email (which is easy to trace) it was not admissable. Strange.
Anyway, as I mentioned before I’m up for the Speedo Corporations legal fees. Perhaps I’ll just have to quote the judge, and tell them that little reliance can be placed upon emails. They can deliver the bill in person. When they deliver the bill in person, I’ll be able to give them my snowboard, my laptop, the shirt off my back and the speedos I’ll be wearing.
All good fun if it wasn’t so serious.
Here are some guys wearing ‘Speedo Brand’ speedos.
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I’ve changed all the links I could find in my blog to your new URL.
Good luck with your battle with dear old Speedo. You do realise that the next step will be them trying to force you not to describe them as “evil”? What a bunch of drongos they are!
Dave, here’s the Gruen TV show from ABC on iView where you are mentioned… http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/view/855671
Hedy someone should update Speedo’s Wiki entry to record how evil they are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedo
Dave, I gave the wrong episode of Greun… it was the week before… u may wanna do a screen grab or a rip before it comes down in the next few days.. You bit is mentioned 35 mins into it. SEE http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/view/852412
Cheers for that Mike – I’ll check it out.
Love those low-rise speedos in the top and bottom pics.
Maybe we ought to try not using their name, not posting pictures of guys in their trunks, not wearing their trunks, not buying their trunks and generally trying to avoid them?
Vindictive? Yeah. But surely it was more vindictive of them to be taking legal action to reinstate a trademark that’s pretty much in common language to describe a style rather than a brand… *sigh*