MonTemplar's Journal: Watch out for that evil bulldozer, George!

From BBC News :

Heavy equipment maker Caterpillar has seen red over a new Disney film which it claims portrays its earthmovers as "evil".

The US engineering giant is attempting to block the release of George of the Jungle 2, claiming the film will damage its reputation.

The company claims the straight-to-video slapstick comedy portrays Caterpillar earthmovers as part of an "evil attacking army" bent on destroying the jungle.

But Disney - which has vowed to fight Caterpillar's trademark infringement law suit - claims the offending scenes are harmless fun.

Nice job guys, helpfully promoting Disney's latest Christmas turkey. :-)

From the "Things I'd Like to See" Dept

[DaytonCIM]

Mickey vs a Caterpillar Grader.

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Golly

[M.C. Hampster]

The only damage that George of the Jungle 2 will inflict is upon the minds of parents everywhere whose children drag them to see it.

Re:Golly

[heliocentric]

The only damage that George of the Jungle 2 will inflict is upon the minds of parents everywhere whose children drag them to see it.

Well, it is straight to video so the dragging shouldn't be for long distnaces, thus the damage should be minimal. Plus the parent could presumably leave the kid alone in a room with said video (properly monitoring the kid of course, you can never start smoking daddy's pot stash too early).

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"Lyle's bulldozing bullies"

[zptdooda]

Maybe Caterpillar's or shell shocked by bad press and getting gun-shy. Going by the tv and newspapers, armed forces have been known to include 'em in joint operations with tanks.

They've prolly had to hire a few more PR people of late to combat this. Might be feeling a bit defensive about the press. A quick google survey:

army bulldozers: 63,400 hits (not as a phrase)
army bulldozers Caterpillar: 2,730
evil bulldozers: 18,400
evil caterpillars: 11,600

Of course on the flip side:
good bulldozers: 99,600
good bull

Re:"Lyle's bulldozing bullies"

[insanecarbonbasedlif]

and bad movies.

Which, ironically, you didn't mention how many hits that had, and it topped all the other categories with 6,670,000 hits. What is that, "bad movies" are 235 times more common than "evil fertilizer"? Well, I'm not really suprised.

Re:"Lyle's bulldozing bullies"

[zptdooda]

Well I thought of going that way but wanted to save the punchline for someone else, you know like Harvey Korman used to. Thanks Tim! ;-)