Extra! Extra! Read All About It!

Venerable newspaper / squeaky toy Doggy News…

…launches digital edition!

Eh…get it?  It’s, uh, it’s all ones and zeroes.

Maybe the real story here is how Hartz Mountain managed to let the copyright for their perennial best-selling squeaky latex dog toy – which dates back to at least the 1970s – lapse into public domain so that a poorly reproduced knockoff with a barely legible masthead (“Doggn Nems,” it seems to read; “Weather: Dog Days” and “Kennel Edition” are nowhere in sight) can be manufactured in China and sold at 99¢ Only.

I mean, what’s next, an unlicensed Crinkle Fish cat toy?!

Although…re-reading this post I’m wondering if perhaps an even bigger scoop would be why in God’s name I remember the specifics of a dog toy from almost 40 years ago.

Posted by Ted on July 15, 2014, 11:48 PM.