Alan linked to a story in the Whig about an Illinois junior hockey team copying the Kingston Frontenacs’ logo.

The first-year team from Fairview Heights, Ill., uses different colours than Kingston - orange, purple and silver, instead of the OHL team’s gold and black - in a strikingly similar logo.

“There are changes to some facial features, different buttons on the collar and the colours are different,” said Haywood, whose team plays in the Great Lakes Junior Hockey League -a fledgling junior C loop with teams in Michigan and Illinois.

However, Dutil feels the American team could have been more original by calling itself the Illinois Brules in honour of Etienne Brule, known as the first European to see all the Great Lakes.
– Kingston, Illinois play name game | Two teams ‘working toward a solution’ American hockey club models its team logo after Kingston’s The Whig Standard 31 Oct 2008

In the story the coach and general manager is quoted in the story tha tthey used the Kingston logo as a “guide.”

But then what can people around here say. With the Kitchener Ranger logo looking like the New York logo.

Of course the New York Rangers owned the team when they took on the Rangers name in 1963.

I can imagine that people who receive telemarketing call are often rude to the callers. Surely that is bad manners, but belligerence on the part of the telemarketer is unacceptable. Callers should be straightforward and offer their value proposition rather than annoy with nonsense responses.

This is the conversation of a call I got last month.

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R: Hello?

T: Hello! Could I speak to Mr. Wing please.

R: Who is calling?

T: This is Rich.

R: I mean where are you calling from?

T: Is Mr. Wing there?

R: There is no Mr. Wing.

T: Could I speak to the homeowner then?

R: This is a mobile phone, there is no homeowner.

T: I’ll call back later then.

R: No don’t call back.