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7380053 No.7380053 [Reply] [Original]

>“Surely, you must be joking,” Aech said.
>“No, I am not joking. And don’t call me Shirley.

>> No.7380056

>>7380053
>“Where’s your proof, dipshit?” I asked.

>> No.7380111

I know nothing about law, so I want to ask, can there be any sort of legal action for the use of that?

>> No.7380141

>>7380111
Right!?
To so blatantly steal a line from Call of Duty . . . disgusting!

>> No.7380168

>>7380053

but he didn't call him Shirley? I don't get it.

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7380203

>>7380168

>> No.7380205

>>7380203

I think it's because Surely sounds like Shirley? But it says right there, "Surely," so I don't know where the confusion comes from.

>> No.7380211

>>7380205
You're either on drugs or a dumkopf

>> No.7380214

>>7380111
None. This is fair use, it would be silly if it wasn't. Imagine writing a story about a detective solving a murder committed during some sci-fi convention. It would be weird if the description of the setting would mention a the victim having pointy ears and a blue shirt and the tall murderer wearing a brown furry suit with a shiny bandolier instead of naming the characters they were dressed up as.

The character in this book has a penchant for referencing bits of 80s popular culture, so the reference here is in-character.

>> No.7380224

Literally the lowest form of humor is an empty reference to a joke someone else made.
>haha remember Airplane??
This book is trash.

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7380232

>>7380224

>implying in the future people won't see all these references as a profound comment on the culture of our times and that in the future literary scholars will research this book and its references as extensively as they do for Ulysses

>> No.7380245

>>7380205
Top kek.

>> No.7380264

>>7380232
no because I am linking your post through my world spanning information database to every copy of this silly book. I am rewriting every entry on the internet in my little secret internet cave to include the fact that the joke was made before and a warning in a hot pocket to not see big ideas in little text.

>> No.7380307

>>7380111
I think that's just fair use. If you tried to make it your title you might have an issue, but just a quotation in a book is very minor legal matter is any.

>> No.7380352

>>7380053
What a disappointing book.

>> No.7380354

>>7380264
wut

>> No.7380910

>>7380053
That book was just the worst.