Seen on Page Six of the New York Post:
DON’T mess with Jimmy Buffett and his "Parrotheads." The crooner is going after
Six Flags’ 20 theme parks, including Great Adventure, charging that its
10,000-member "Carrothead Club" for kids who are fans of Bugs Bunny is a
copyright infringement. But Six Flags rep Wendy Goldberg told us: "I’m not sure
how the concept of children in foam carrot hats is going to be confused with
significantly older Hawaiian shirt-wearing, margarita-swilling Parrotheads.
Clearly imitation wasn’t what we had in mind!" She says there are no plans to
discontinue the club.
Geez. What’s next? The Packer fans and their cheeseheads?
{Thanks to frequent contributor Pat for this submission. I should just let him write the blog.}
The whole Parrothead Club is a hypocrisy of Buffett’s original ideas of spiritual (and often physical) well being. I encourage drunken gatherings and mutual ideals, but “membership” suggests some kind of societal segregation. I accept ALL free-thinkers; membership not required!
Although I do belong to the following clubs:
Ferret-head Club (I love rodents)
Mrs. Garrett-head Club (Go “Facts of Life”!)
Karat-head Club (For jewelers)
HA HA! Take THAT, Jimmy Buffett’s lawyers!
Being the long time Jimmy Buffett fan that I am, I am obliged to say that Parrothead is not even an original idea, that the Dead Heads were around long before, and the fact that the similarity (although vague) between Buffett fans following him around like the much more deadicated (see what I did there?) Grateful Dead fans had been doing for years is what lead to the “parrothead” tag. I’m proud to call myself a member of both, but I’m with six flags on this.
good insight matt. i appoint you to talk to mr. buffett about this.