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06-24-2009, 07:29 AM
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sick of bluefish
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: TEXAS
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go Joe!
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making s-b.com a kinder, gentler place for all 
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06-24-2009, 09:05 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: newport
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Atta boy Joe!  That would look good on our RI license plates.Maybe we can get them to change the slogan on them. |
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06-24-2009, 11:35 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 3,650
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Thanks - You know, a million online tackle shops have sprung up since I started. It's really cut-throat competitive with some pretty sophisticated people entering the picture. I fully expected it to happen though - it's unrealistic to not expect competitors to enter the marketplace.
I'm only one guy - can't compete on that level, so I figured it was time to shift. At least when I publish a book or come up with a design, I hold the copyright or trademark. And yes, I know how expensive it is to defend it - you gotta sell a lot of shirts to pay bills from Salter & Michelson.
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06-24-2009, 01:16 PM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 3,397
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I know what you're saying Joe - piracy on our copyrighted work cost my wife and I a photography business we'd had for over 20 years...and we had it happen with both our commercial work and the things we did on a retail level toward the end of the biz... 
Despite all the benefits of digital imaging, copyright violations - and the expense involved in pursuing them - are the other ugly side of the coin for people who try to make a living on their creative skills. And I've got the attorney's fees to prove it.
On the other hand, Joe - in terms of competition - you've got the one thing that can't be bootlegged...
Charisma....  |
"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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06-24-2009, 02:12 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Billerica, Ma.
Posts: 7,260
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Joe is surely a Fart Smeller, I mean smart feller
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Surfcasting Full Throttle
Don't judge me Monkey 
Recreational Surfcaster 99.9% C&R
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06-24-2009, 02:30 PM
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Here fishy fishy
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Whoville
Posts: 2,266
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I rarely order something online but when I do it's always from Joe
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06-24-2009, 05:42 PM
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Red Eye Jedi
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: East Facing
Posts: 4,374
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congrats Joe!
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06-24-2009, 06:31 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2000
Posts: 2,574
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Probably inspired by this photo I took on Block and posted on this site a few years back. One of my favorites. Glad someone like Joe got a good idea on how to use it.
DZ
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DZ
Recreational Surfcaster
"Limit Your Kill - Don't Kill Your Limit"
Bi + Ne = SB 2
If you haven't heard of the Snowstorm Blitz of 1987 - you someday will.
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06-24-2009, 09:23 PM
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President - S-B Chapter - Kelly Clarkson Fan Club
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Rowley
Posts: 3,781
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that's just awesome Joe, you are a true entreprenuer and I wish you continued success!
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06-25-2009, 12:24 AM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 3,397
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DZ
Probably inspired by this photo I took on Block and posted on this site a few years back. One of my favorites. Glad someone like Joe got a good idea on how to use it.
DZ
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Uh ohhh.... 
Joe, you may be getting contacted by an attorney from the firm of Dewey, Cheatham and Howe....  |
"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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06-25-2009, 05:46 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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grin
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06-25-2009, 08:29 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 3,650
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Hey, how many people found themselves ditching a one-night stand and thinking to themselves, "Life Is Good" while making an early-morning escape? I can remember thinking that on several occasions as early as the mid-1980's.....
But it was not until 1998 that those bastid Jacob brothers from Boston trademarked the phrase, stuck it on a shirt, sold 20 million pieces, and got into 550 stores.
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06-25-2009, 09:15 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: orange ct
Posts: 2,992
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I told Joe we need to get some big shot celebrity to wear one of his sweatshirts around and have the picture of them in People Magazine -then things would take off. Anyone know Matthew McConaughey or Anne Hathaway.
Tom Brady or Giselle would work
I know John R is big  but may not be big enough |
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06-25-2009, 11:59 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
Posts: 17,125
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wader-dad
I told Joe we need to get some big shot celebrity to wear one of his sweatshirts around and have the picture of them in People Magazine -then things would take off. Anyone know Matthew McConaughey or Anne Hathaway.
Tom Brady or Giselle would work
I know John R is big but may not be big enough |
I could get one to Bill Belichick, but he won't be wearing it at a game, maybe out on Nantucket though.
Good stuff Joe  |
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06-25-2009, 12:37 PM
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President - S-B Chapter - Kelly Clarkson Fan Club
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Rowley
Posts: 3,781
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great idea boys, give some to Jon and Kate plus 8!
or now it's gonna be Jon plus 8.....hookers!
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06-25-2009, 12:42 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 3,650
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Or one hooker and an eight-ball.
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