That's a meme I've been carrying around since at least July 2007, and almost certainly for some time before that. July 2007 is just the date of a blog post comment in which I used it.
As I type, if I Google that sentence the blog comment I mentioned is the only hit.
Same result on Yahoo, Bing, Twitter, and 100SEARCHENGINES.
I guess the meme is mine. There must be a million ways to express the idea that asinine laws are to be ignored, but I searched out pithy expressions similar to mine (well, I think it's pithy) and found none.
The only reason I care about claiming ownership, copyright or whatever one can claim with respect to a meme, is because my son told me about an outfit that sells t-shirts with provocative or offensive themes, and they accept submissions which, if accepted, net you a couple of t-shirts. Something like that. It might have been Road Kill T-Shirts, where these two and a few others caught my eye and made me smile:
- Beautiful girl wears a t-shirt that says,
With a shirt this AWESOME who needs pants? - Marked as outsourced so it must be popular:
Spooning may lead to forking.
I've been aware of CafePress for a while, but only learned about the latter two as a result of checking out the former. There must be others, or better ideas entirely.
What to do? Could I supplement my upcoming retirement income by dreaming up stuff to sell via these services? Should I just pick one and give it a shot? Which one?
Maybe I should just ask someone I know, whose worthy cause I support, if he wants this meme for his CafePress shop.
I don't know. I'll have to do some research and think about this some more, obviously, but in the meantime I claim this as mine:
"When the law is an ass you treat it accordingly."
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