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"Beware the Ides of March" (March Madness, 44 B.C.)

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  1. frozenhead frozenhead is offline

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    Mar 15th, 2007 (3/15/2007 3:52pm)

    "Et tu, Brute?"

    -From Julius Caesar (III, i, 77)

    Perhaps the most famous three words uttered in literature, "Et tu, Brute?" (Even you, Brutus?) this expression has come down in history to mean the ultimate betrayal by one's closest friend. This scene, in which the conspirators in the Senate assassinate Caesar, is one of the most dramatic moments on the Shakespearean stage. The audience has just witnessed the arrogance and hubris of a ruler who has sought, within a republic, to become a monarch, comparing himself to the gods. Brutus, a friend of Caesar and yet a man who loves Rome (and freedom) more, has joined the conspirators in the assassination, a betrayal which is captured by the three words above.</CONTEXT>
  2. bananadwayne bananadwayne is offline

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    Mar 15th, 2007 (3/15/2007 3:54pm) in reply to frozenhead

    et = and, in latin
  3. LDM LDM is offline

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    Mar 15th, 2007 (3/15/2007 3:55pm) in reply to frozenhead

    ides of march = march 15-17

    LKF. That is all.
  4. LDM LDM is offline

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    Mar 15th, 2007 (3/15/2007 3:55pm) in reply to bananadwayne

    tu= you. latin
  5. LDM LDM is offline

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    Mar 15th, 2007 (3/15/2007 3:56pm) in reply to LDM

    Brute = vocative form of Brutus.
  6. cruizr cruizr is offline

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    Mar 15th, 2007 (3/15/2007 3:58pm) in reply to frozenhead

    Mr. Frozenhead - you've used a trademarked term above (M..ch Madn..s).

    I fully expect gosajljkfjd, or whatever his name was, to prosecute you to the full extent of the LAW!!! Because that's the way it should be!!!!

    DAMMIT - we can't have you people running around all willy nilly breaking laws whenever you want to!!!! It would be anarchy!!!

    And make sure you take a few bucks to the joint with you for toilet paper, k?
  7. Mr Fairplay Mr Fairplay is offline

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    Mar 15th, 2007 (3/15/2007 4:20pm) in reply to cruizr

    Does it needed to be sourced or something? Interesting.

    I have a question...

    If cutting the tag off of a mattress is a criminal offence, and everyone knows that everyone does it (or most), why isn't anything done about it?
  8. mason32 mason32 is offline

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    Mar 15th, 2007 (3/15/2007 4:25pm) in reply to Mr Fairplay

    I served 4 years for mattress tag cutting
    got raped by a soap dispenser
  9. LDM LDM is offline

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    Mar 15th, 2007 (3/15/2007 4:25pm) in reply to Mr Fairplay

    because it's not illegal for the consumer to cut it off. only the retailer or wholesaler.
  10. cruizr cruizr is offline

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    Mar 15th, 2007 (3/15/2007 4:26pm) in reply to LDM

    <H3><SPAN class=editsection>[edit]</SPAN> <SPAN class=mw-headline>History of the term</SPAN></H3>
    H. V. Porter, an official with the Illinois High School Association (and later a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame) was the first person to use March Madness to commemorate a basketball tournament. A gifted writer, Porter published an essay named March Madness in 1939 and in 1942 used the phrase in a poem, Basketball Ides of March. Through the years the use of March Madness picked up steam, especially in Illinois and other parts of the Midwest. During this period the term was used almost exclusively in reference to state high school tournaments. In 1977, the IHSA published a book about its tournament titled March Madness.

    Fans began connecting the term to the NCAA tournament in the early 1980s. Evidence suggests that CBS sportscaster Brent Musburger, who had worked for many years in Chicago prior to joining CBS, popularized the term during the annual tournament broadcasts.

    Only in the 1990s did either the IHSA or NCAA think about trademarking the term, and by that time a small television production company named Intersport, Inc., had beaten them both to the punch. IHSA eventually bought the trademark rights from Intersport and then went after big game, suing GTE Vantage, Inc., an NCAA licensee that used the name March Madness for a computer game based on the college tournament. In an historic ruling, Illinois High School Association v. GTE Vantage, Inc. (1996), the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit created the concept of a "dual-use trademark", granting both the IHSA and NCAA the right to trademark the term for their own purposes.

    Following the ruling, the NCAA and IHSA joined forces and created the March Madness Athletic Association to coordinate the licensing of the trademark and investigate possible trademark infringement. One such case involved a company that had obtained the Internet domain name marchmadness.com and was using it to post information about the NCAA tournament. After protracted litigation, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held in March Madness Athletic Association v. Netfire, Inc. (2003) that March Madness was not a generic term and ordered Netfire to relinquish the domain name.
  11. Mr Fairplay Mr Fairplay is offline

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    Mar 15th, 2007 (3/15/2007 4:37pm) in reply to LDM

    I did not know that. Thank you. BUT, by god if one of them does...
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