Monday, February 12, 2007



This weeks theme is Spike

A Few Years ago I used to watch a cable channel a lot. It had Star Trek NG and CSI marathons on Friday night. Since I was a happily married woman at the time, I was content to sit and watch CSI repeats on Friday nights.

I can't remember what the name of the channel was but at some point they decided to change the name to SPIKE TV. OK, I guess it was a guys channel, they did show wrestling on it occasionally. What I thought of when they said Spike, was spiking the football or Vlad the Impaler.
Well someone out there in Famous land with a ego the size of Texas decide to sue the channel for the use of his name. I think his mind must have been warped to think his name had anything to do with a mans channel. Eventually he dropped his lawsuit and the name change went off as planned.
So if I was to use this line of thinking...after all I am famous too, I have a blog.....I think I will send a cease and desist order to Minute Rice. The name just sounds too close to Last Minute Lyn.

I think I will leave Loretta Lynn out of it since she uses two n's.

I will think of this incident from now on every time I hear the word Spike.
I've been told I'm opinionated..So this is my opinion.

15 comments:

Barb said...

This was GREAT! I never would have thought about Spike TV :)

Travis Cody said...

LOL! Very original.

Lizza said...

Haha! This was a very good post. Gotta love your opinion!

Empress Bee (of the high sea) said...

whew... sure glad you aren't suing loretta lynn honey...

smiles, bee

katherine. said...

I remember when they became Spike TV! Opinionated is a good thing.

Unknown said...

Great post - thanks a lot for introducing SPIKE TV

(*psst* they do not broadcast in Germany... LOL)

Mo and The Purries said...

I, too, remember the Spike TV fracas, and you're right -- what an ego to think that as an "entertainer" you have the rights to sole usage of a word. This was a great post!
Thanks for participating in
Manic Monday
cheers,
Manic Mo

Crazy Working Mom said...

*LOL* That was a great post. Opinions are good. They're like buttholes, everybody's got one. heh heh

Alice (in BC Canada) said...

Great post, Lyn. I never even thought of Spike TV, though I do occasionally watch something on it... like Star Trek TNG.

I've posted a Manic Monday too.
http://iwasborn2cree8.blogspot.com/

Anonymous said...

That's cute! You know for half a minute, I thought about Spike TV, too, but since it was a "man's" station, I hadn't ever watched it. I didn't know why they changed names. Interesting. Thanks for stopping by my MM.

Mel said...

*chuckling*

No 'Spike TV' in Iowa....yet.....

Happy Monday to you!!

Lexa Roséan said...

great - spike tv - very uniquie use of this week's word:)

Neila said...

Didn't Spike TV used to be TNT? I totally never got the name change! But I suppose us gals have Oxygen and WE. Let 'em have Spike TV.

That is a great inspiration!! :-)

Parlancheq said...

What? You mean this isn't Loretta Lynn's blog? ;)

Liz Hill said...

EXCELLENT!! I always thought the name of that channel was so overly "oh it's all guy"

and leave Ms. LOretta out of this *grin*
Nice post