Just checked the stringer on my Jim Phillips version, it says Jr Jimmons … (sigh) Your safe Jim. LMFAO
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More likely to inherit the wind.
Maybe more likely to inherit a mirror… so he can marvel at himself typing those pointless long paragraphs.
E Billy, ainʻt that the truth mon; gets so annoying most times I just skip the whole mess; dudeʻs gone troppo; maybe too much lysergic!!!
This thread was sent to me en route to beginning my shaping day.
…skimmed it but not a full read, but the gist of it to me goes back to the Intellectual Property debate.
IP is a can of worms that will be debated long after I’m gone and no longer will have a physical body that can contribute here… at least, I think.
Sure patents, signature and trademarks are real tangible efforts at keeping people from misrepresenting the inception, originator or authenticity of an idea, whether it be a product, process, what have you. That’s nearly impossible to do in this day and age, and if an entity (individual, corporation, etc.) is able to do so, the expense of enforcing it can be enormous thereby impacting the cost of a product if factored into it as “cost of doing business” so as to render it not viable as an investment with any expected “R.O.I.” aka Return of Investment.
**As I saw with the trademarked name “WINDSURFER”, all it did by threatening those of us that wanted to embrace that term, was to use the generic and somewhat lackluster alternative sailboard, windboard, or whatever when, truthfully, windsurfer fit best at the time. **
**We eventually all grew used to the term sallboard and it is no big debate and simply ancient history. The point I want to make is that in my experience and history of designing and building surfboards, exclusivity deters growth of surboard design in the rare cases that it was attempted and met with some degree of success. **
So, in essence, the success of one… let’s say Simon Anderson was able to “own” the tri fin Thruster and no one else could produce it w/o paying royalties or being a legit liscensee… well, the success of one would have resulted in the failure of many.
The surfing industry simply isn’t a very sophisticated industry to try to apply ‘big business’ concepts too. Many like to think differently, but I’ve yet to see it, even with the proliferation and takeover of corporate entities.
Yes, Mini Simmons could have tremendous branding possibilities.
**I seriously doubt that will/would ever happen.
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billy my dear friend,
some people get the point.
I have many points included in each of my quatrains.
thanks to some I recieve encouragement to express
my insights when I am awaken in the dark overnight.
Dead shaper picked up a thought train and I got
some insight from the maui/inside sailboard guys .
Bill Thrillkill ,I like. and support.
the fact that you would like me to get a mirror
is like my wife who wants to have me trim
the hair from the end of my nose
because she cant take her eyes off of it.
Paragraphs are indented,I never Indent.
never built a si,mmons never will
made a 6’0 round nose 22 1/2’ wide board
in 1968 that I brought to kauai
it had a 10’’ tailblock and a real wide nose
with the wide point well forward of center
it had a single fin,brewer picked me up hitchhiking
and said it would spin out,the next year
they invented side slipping for the alamoand summer season
Joe Beaugess didn’t ask me for a template then.
fourty years later…
…ambrose///
Dr Thrillkill may be refering to the motion picture
staring spencer tracyfrom 1955
Inherit the Wind & the Scopes Monkey Trial
this was perhaps one of the most famous court cases
in american history,it concerned itself with the teaching of evolution in
public schools. I choose to not base my designs
plagerism but on original thought.
I base my original thought on insights of aquaintences ,friends,
and divinely inspired predecessors.
thanks billy for the inspiration.
if you see joe tell him nice board.
what a joke. trademark someone elses name-the person who actually made the first simmons' boards long and short. by the way, there are those out there that make a better mini simmons than ol' joe...
i’m a fan of the ‘spoonless square tailed fish spoon’
I’m interested in what you said I just didn’t have the time or patience to read all that. My eyes don’t have the patience to skip around those short sentences and I end up getting dizzy… can you summarize please?
Ambrose, the problem is age.
Children don’t have patience.
That comes with age, as does wisdom.
Children often have ego issues and aggression issues.
That gets sorted out with age, it’s part of becoming wiser.
May the winds blow off-shore, and the swells run smoothly down the line for you my friend.
attention span is another
cheers huie
I’m
a
42
year
old
child.
Killer! 
Perhaps Mini-Simmons will just become TSWSNBN. The shape which shall not be named. The Lord Voldemort of surfboards. Hey, how 'bout a Voldy?
hmm
brings back the name to lindsay lord.
lord board (http://hydrodynamica.com/totem/lord-board.php)
board de mort, c’est pas?
hmm
How about Gene Simmons the fitness guru dude? Bottoms up!
Holly crap!
......the law wants all my points....
I don't need not stinking points....you can have your trademark and all my points to boot.......
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.....Time for a long slow paddle through the kelp bed on my new longboard.....awwww.....mellow.....
Breathe slow little Stingray....things will get better.....too easy to get caught up in stuff.....
..............................things are getting better...........
Hopefully see all of you at the show Sat morning......Mrs. Stingray said she would like to check out the art work......
Ray.....more long slow paddles needed....but we're getting better.......
so ,the steve jobs quote hits very hard on the nail head:
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
get it ,please…
…ambrose…
yep, I like that …can be hard to do sometimes, especially in this industry
I get it. Keep it coming Ambrose!
I must make a mini simmons now, this is gwate for the stoke, I can get sue-d boy. I tell ya, I just gotta get me a mr magoo-se mini simmons. Like Dino licking Fred.