 Brando "boots" Harley Davidson
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The Brando estate, while protecting their "intellectual property" of Marlon's identity, is also sticking up for Triumph. http://usridernews.com/2012/03/13/brando-enterprises-give-harley-davidson-the-boot/ Quote:
While The Wild One has become synonymous with biker culture, it was Triumphs and not Harley-Davidsons that featured prominently in the 1953 film.
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Should be Riding
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New Tires
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That's funny, since HD has been so aggressive in defending their branding. It's also funny, I know of some HD dealers with that Brando sitting on a Triumph "Wild Ones" poster on their walls. Harley Davison.... 
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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I thought in the movie he couldn't afford a HD so he got a Trumpet... 
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Mal: "Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun?{ref, Jayne} Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really, it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting."
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Yeah...I ESPECIALLY enjoyed readin' THIS paragraph in your link, John: Quote:
According to papers filed in court, Brando Enterprises said, ‘They (Harley-Davidson) have been aggressive protecting its own intellectual property from perceived infringements and should have known better.”
Yep! One WOULD think ANY company that once tried to copyright a friggin' SOUND their motorcycle makes, WOULD know better than THIS, wouldn't one???!!! 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Quote:
Yeah...I ESPECIALLY enjoyed readin' THIS paragraph in your link, John:
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According to papers filed in court, Brando Enterprises said, ‘They (Harley-Davidson) have been aggressive protecting its own intellectual property from perceived infringements and should have known better.”
Yep! One WOULD think ANY company that once tried to copyright a friggin' SOUND their motorcycle makes, WOULD know better than THIS, wouldn't one???!!!
I didn't know you could copyright the "tinkle CLUNK" of parts falling off....   
Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python
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Good one, Ed!
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Triumph works with the Steve McQueen estate while arrogant mega bucks Harley Davidson just takes Brando's name.
2011 Triumph America (10/2011 to 07/2014)
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Maybe Harley should name their new boot the "Arnold", since CA's last Governor is such a great advocate for motorcyclists...NOT.
"Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary" Author unknown
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They should call it what it is....wolverine work boot with a added strap and buckle, and some harley branding stuff on it.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Maybe Harley should name their new boot the "Arnold", since CA's last Governor is such a great advocate for motorcyclists...NOT.
Yeah Paul, AND with the added sales tag-line of: "Maid...err...MADE to order"!!! 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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