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Moby Dick’s Restaurant Barred as an Offensive Name
« on: January 19, 2017, 12:49:58 am »
Courthouse News
Darryl Greer
Jan. 17, 2017

VANCOUVER, B.C. (CN) – A business in Vancouver, B.C., has sued its building council for blocking the lease of its restaurant property to “Moby Dick’s” fish-and-chips franchise, because the council says the word “Dick” is offensive.

Plaintiff Mengfa International bought a unit in a commercial building in 2010 and in 2014 leased it to an Asian-fusion restaurant, “The Change,” for five years. The Change fell on hard times, though, and in May 2015, Moby Dick Restaurant, a fish-and-chip franchise, agreed to a lease and purchase arrangement.

The building council wouldn’t allow it. It insisted “that the word ‘Dick’ in Moby Dick was an offensive term,” Mengfa says in its Jan. 9 lawsuit.

More... http://courthousenews.com/moby-dicks-restaurant-barred-as-an-offensive-name/


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Re: Moby Dick’s Restaurant Barred as an Offensive Name
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2017, 12:51:42 am »
Really folks really? I guess they'll just have to raise prices and call it Moby Richard's.
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Re: Moby Dick’s Restaurant Barred as an Offensive Name
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2017, 01:10:40 am »
Heh, and I thought the upshot would be it's offensive to the obese.
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Re: Moby Dick’s Restaurant Barred as an Offensive Name
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2017, 01:14:10 am »
Quote from: Idaho_Cowboy on January 19, 2017, 12:51:42 am
Really folks really? I guess they'll just have to raise prices and call it Moby Richard's.


'Richard Head's' became a popular name for restaurants/clubs some years ago.
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Re: Moby Dick’s Restaurant Barred as an Offensive Name
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2017, 01:16:58 am »
My grandparents used to take me to Sambo's
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Re: Moby Dick’s Restaurant Barred as an Offensive Name
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2017, 02:14:44 am »
I find the words "building council" offensive. 
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Re: Moby Dick’s Restaurant Barred as an Offensive Name
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2017, 02:16:49 am »
Guess they'll be none of these there as well.

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Re: Moby Dick’s Restaurant Barred as an Offensive Name
« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2017, 02:18:39 am »
Quote from: Hondo69 on January 19, 2017, 02:14:44 am
I find the words "building council" offensive.


Wait until they find out what 'Mengfa' means.
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Re: Moby Dick’s Restaurant Barred as an Offensive Name
« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2017, 02:20:09 am »
Quote from: dfwgator on January 19, 2017, 02:16:49 am
Guess they'll be none of these there as well.




And there's Dick's Sporting Goods for you, uh, sports.
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Re: Moby Dick’s Restaurant Barred as an Offensive Name
« Reply #9 on: January 19, 2017, 02:35:33 am »
So far the Gay bar is untouched.

http://thegaybar.com/

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Re: Moby Dick’s Restaurant Barred as an Offensive Name
« Reply #10 on: January 19, 2017, 02:45:09 am »
Toque wearing hosers.   And their beer sucks too.
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Re: Moby Dick’s Restaurant Barred as an Offensive Name
« Reply #11 on: January 19, 2017, 03:00:27 am »
My name is Ishmael!


So I assume that the English treat, Spotted Dick, is considered to be contraband there?


True story, my first boss was named Dick Harden. Those were less vulgar times. Nobody thought anything of it. It was just his name, That's all.


That real name today would get you charged with a sex crime of some kind.


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Re: Moby Dick’s Restaurant Barred as an Offensive Name
« Reply #13 on: January 19, 2017, 05:05:15 pm »
Quote from: Idaho_Cowboy on January 19, 2017, 12:51:42 am
Really folks really? I guess they'll just have to raise prices and call it Moby Richard's.
Maybe they can negotiate to use this Richard as their logo, here he is going for the catch of the day.

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Re: Moby Dick’s Restaurant Barred as an Offensive Name
« Reply #14 on: January 19, 2017, 05:07:48 pm »
There was a bar in Columbus Ohio in the early 80's called "Salty Seamen"
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Re: Moby Dick’s Restaurant Barred as an Offensive Name
« Reply #15 on: January 19, 2017, 05:21:34 pm »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on January 19, 2017, 01:10:40 am
Heh, and I thought the upshot would be it's offensive to the obese.

Nah, it's racist against whales of colour.

Side note, if you ever want to really piss off a social justice type, tell them to check their privilege if they say "person of colour" as they are implying that brown or black is somehow not normal.

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« Reply #16 on: January 19, 2017, 05:28:57 pm »
Now I know why the left wants us to be like Canada..
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Re: Moby Dick’s Restaurant Barred as an Offensive Name
« Reply #17 on: January 19, 2017, 05:43:15 pm »
Quote from: 240B on January 19, 2017, 03:00:27 am
My name is Ishmael!
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Nice you picked up on Ishmael.  A literature professor at our CATHOLIC church has a class on Monday night and we read/study the great works of literature.  We have gone through the Iliad, Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, several plays of Shakespeare, and we started last Monday night, MOBY DICK.  I say again, we are reading/studying MOBY DICK IN A CATHOLIC CHURCH.  Oh, forsooth, the indignity of it all, we shall all be damned!
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« Reply #18 on: January 19, 2017, 05:51:37 pm »
Quote from: kevindavis on January 19, 2017, 05:28:57 pm
Now I know why the left wants us to be like Canada..

Canadians... They walk among us. William Shatner. Michael J. Fox. Monty Hall. Mike Meyers. Alex Trebek. Justin Beiber... All of them Canadians. All of them here .  Think of your children pledging allegiance to the maple leaf. Mayonnaise on everything. Winter 11 months of the year. Anne Murray - all day, every day. The Canadian National Tower in Toronto is the height of six American football fields, or five Canadian football fields. As if Canadian football really counts.....  Canada  Take-off eh?
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Re: Moby Dick’s Restaurant Barred as an Offensive Name
« Reply #19 on: January 19, 2017, 05:58:19 pm »
Eh?
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Re: Moby Dick’s Restaurant Barred as an Offensive Name
« Reply #20 on: January 19, 2017, 06:02:39 pm »
Quote from: Victoria33 on January 19, 2017, 05:43:15 pm
@240B

Nice you picked up on Ishmael.  A literature professor at our CATHOLIC church has a class on Monday night and we read/study the great works of literature.  We have gone through the Iliad, Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, several plays of Shakespeare, and we started last Monday night, MOBY DICK.  I say again, we are reading/studying MOBY DICK IN A CATHOLIC CHURCH.  Oh, forsooth, the indignity of it all, we shall all be damned!


You just took me back to my English Lit studies. All those and Cantubury Tales and you are like a psychic, except you are reading my past instead of my future.

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Re: Moby Dick’s Restaurant Barred as an Offensive Name
« Reply #21 on: January 19, 2017, 06:08:59 pm »
More Eh?

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