"Dude, Her Head's Bigger Than Her Pelvis"

Oh, we like the "David vs. Goliath" fights here on The Garlic.

They can be so entertaining, and illuminating, you can get so pumped up by them.

And, since we are doing a post on it, we do have one, in progress, that is shooting up some sparks.

The lads over at the wonderfully irreverent site, Boing Boing, drew the ire of the Batman-loving Ralph Lauren, when they jumped on, and dissed a Lauren advertisement, that, seemingly, set the taser gun of their Photoshopping on Warp Speed 5;

Ralph Lauren opens new outlet store in the Uncanny Valley

Dude, her head's bigger than her pelvis ..."

Yikes!

It looks like she could be the offspring of a civil union between Lou Waters and Jack Germond.

So, naturally, the Lauren folks acted like someone greased their runway, and pointed the lawyers at Boing Boing, which Boing Boing didn't even break a sweat over;

The criticism that Ralph Lauren doesn't want you to see!

So, instead of responding to their legal threat by suppressing our criticism of their marketing images, we're gonna mock them. Hence this post.

[snip]

So, to Ralph Lauren, GreenbergTraurig, and PRL Holdings, Inc: sue and be damned. Copyright law doesn't give you the right to threaten your critics for pointing out the problems with your offerings. You should know better. And every time you threaten to sue us over stuff like this, we will:

a) Reproduce the original criticism, making damned sure that all our readers get a good, long look at it, and;

b) Publish your spurious legal threat along with copious mockery, so that it becomes highly ranked in search engines where other people you threaten can find it and take heart; and

c) Offer nourishing soup and sandwiches to your models.

For Ralph Lauren, it's "Holy snagged tights, Batman! ... What do we do now?"

Kudos, Boing Boing!


Bonus Links

Boing Boing Raises Its Middle Finger to Ralph Lauren

Boing Boing And Ralph Lauren Clash Over Image Of Emaciated Model

De-touching the lollipop-headed Ralph Lauren image that prompted a legal threat

Retro Garlic: Bush Is Batman? ... Holy Batshit!

I, perhaps, must first disclose that I haven't rushed out to be part of the record-breaking box office for the new 'Brokeback Batman', errr, 'The Dark Knight' movie.

However, it seems that one of Rupert Murdoch's minions, Andrew Klavan (once you read the piece, you'll understand he must be related to Cheers' Cliff; Okay, okay, one of them changed the spelling, to disassociate themselves from the other), has penned a wet dream to our Court-Appointed President (h/t Barry Crimmins), with his "What Bush and Batman Have in Common";

A cry for help goes out from a city beleaguered by violence and fear: A beam of light flashed into the night sky, the dark symbol of a bat projected onto the surface of the racing clouds . . .

Oh, wait a minute. That's not a bat, actually. In fact, when you trace the outline with your finger, it looks kind of like . . . a "W."

There seems to me no question that the Batman film "The Dark Knight," currently breaking every box office record in history, is at some level a paean of praise to the fortitude and moral courage that has been shown by George W. Bush in this time of terror and war. Like W, Batman is vilified and despised for confronting terrorists in the only terms they understand. Like W, Batman sometimes has to push the boundaries of civil rights to deal with an emergency, certain that he will re-establish those boundaries when the emergency is past.

And like W, Batman understands that there is no moral equivalence between a free society -- in which people sometimes make the wrong choices -- and a criminal sect bent on destruction. The former must be cherished even in its moments of folly; the latter must be hounded to the gates of Hell.

That's the first three paragraphs, and, as a warning, it gets more noxious as it goes on.

I hazard a guess that the closest The Commander Guy has come to being Batman is, under the guise and cover of Halloween, he went running around the house in Laura's tights.

Or, maybe they donned costumes in the Bush Grindhouse, when they met to choreograph the torture of suspected enemy combatants.

As you can imagine, bubbling up is a boatload of feedback, dissing and derision on the World Wide Web

Spencer Ackerman, actually, has a good case, calling out Klavan for stealing the idea of his own essay, "Batman's 'Dark Knight' Reflects Cheney Policy; Joker's Senseless, Endless Violence Echoes Al Qaeda"

Read it yourself, but trust me, Ackerman's is leagues better.

Michael Cohen, on the Democracy Arsenal, has THE BEST OP-ED EVER!!!!!

David Neiwert - Must. Stop. Fist … Of … Doom!

Atrios brings it home with his "Bat-tusi"

The Retro Part

The Garlic covered this over two-years ago;

Top Ten Cloves: Difficulties DC Comics' Batman May Have Fighting Osama bin Laden

A little taste;

3. Sidekick Robin will beat-to-death and overuse the "Holy Mushroom Clouds, Batman" phrase

Good Thing Time Travel Isn't Here Yet

Announcer: [opening narration for most episodes] Two American scientists are lost in the swirling maze of past and future ages, during the first experiments on America's greatest and most secret project, the Time Tunnel. Tony Newman and Doug Phillips now tumble helplessly toward a new fantastic adventure, somewhere along the infinite corridors of time.

The Time Tunnel (ABC 1966)

Maybe she could take the Dr. Ann MacGregor role (there's a vibe for this; on the show, the part was played by Lee Meriwether, who also, around the same time, played Catwoman).

But, me thinks, after getting an earful of her toxic BS, Drs. Newman and Phillips would program the dials, and send her through the tunnel, sans a return trip, and, possibly, with an eye towards saving mankind, destroy the machine, once she's been deposited, oh, say in the cave around 500 BC.

We talk, of course, of Ann Coulter, the doyenne of the Right Wing Freakshow.

Mark Kleiman has a most amusing and funny post today;

If Ann Coulter had liveblogged the Gettysburg Address

Ahhh...now he slips it to us! "Fourscore and seven," indeed! He's bringing us back to the Marxist rant of 1776, completely ignoring the Constitution of 1787 in rhetoric as he has in practice. I'll believe we're all equal when I'm as tall as Lincoln, or as ugly. And the slaves he's so fond of may be his equals, but I'm damned if they're mine.

Highly recommend you check it out.

And, no need, necessarily, for a Retro Garlic, but we had placed Coultergeist in a different historical era;

Garlic Exclusive! 1st Draft Of Coulter’s Plagiarism Response