Gentlemen, while I appreciate the spread of the term “Jew cooties,” I think a tip of the hat once in a while to the originator (at least in the blogosphere) of that term would be nice.
The category was established here in October of 2005, although I’d been calling it that as early as February of that same year.
Now, if either of you boys were using the term before February of 2005, I will relinquish my claim to fame on that particular nomenclature. (One has to use very big words when one is cross-blogging with Omri; the dude is getting his Ph.D in rhetoric ((which is what I repeatedly tell those people who are silly enough to keep arguing with him: “You’re arguing with a guy who’s getting a Ph.D in arguing?”)), which means you really need to choose your words. Dude.)
But if you can’t find me a post predating mine, well then, I claim “Jew Cooties” for my own. At least until someone sues me for it.
Well, yes and no.
Ah, but were you subscribing to that newsgroup, or are you just Googling the term? I didn’t say I invented it. I just said that I brought it to the blogosphere. Soccer Dad probably spread it to the places you hang out.
Oh. I did use the word “originator” in this post, but I explained it in the parenthetical statement.
Meryl,
You’re giving me too much credit. I wasn’t hanging around in those news groups. But you know that Omri has this neat Google search. Here are the results of the term “Jew cooties” among the pro-Israel blogs. Alas there seems to be no way to order them by date, automatically.
I think the term has already entered the realm of “kleenex” and “xerox” and “band-aid.”
Not while I can pull it back, it hasn’t.
Band-aid is still a copyrighted term,and so are Xerox and Kleenex.
I should find my old Terms of Use that I wrote after reading some phenomenally long and stupid Terms of Use for some software. I believe I mentioned Godiva chocolates in mine.
Ah. Here they are. The Yourish.com Terms of Use.
Well, I have a great candidate for you to sue under your own terms.
What the hell is that blog? What’s fateh.net?
Bastards. I hate when they do that. They’re not the first, and won’t be the last.
I’m not sure it’s a nomenclature issue, but why quibble? Technically I was just quoting Elder’s title – so my use of the word definitely falls under fair use. His theft of your intellectual property, on the other hand, is probably something you want to have a lawyer look into :-D
Sorry, Meryl – Fateh.net is a PLO website, that I discovered allowed anyone to create their own blog. So as a joke I made amyisraelchai.fateh.net and Brian at Snapped Shot made destroy.fateh.net. An anonymous person made apnews.fateh.net as a place to put media bias articles and I was given permission to post there, so I copied your good post about AP bias. My point above is that you should sue the PLO, as owners of the site, for hosting your material without permission!
And indeed I owe you some munchies.
Oh. Never mind, Elder. I thought it was a spamblog, which does exactly that. You can put my posts there. Perhaps we should start linking them. Maybe we could cause their bandwidth payments to go up.
Crap. But then we’d wind up paying for it ourselves, ultimately, out of our tax dollars. Never mind.
Although… if the game is *relative* global decline the Europeans are paying a lot more than we are. Not that it’s going to be an issue for much longer: soon enough they’re going to have to repay to replenish Hamas’s stock of post-Gaza-operation rockets. Copyright issues are going to be a drop in the bucket.