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In a week when a 12-year-old from Fresno won the National Spelling Bee but still couldn’t spell “covfefe,” this also happened:
A Massachusetts coffee shop owner says he received a cease-and-desist letter from Dunkin’ Donuts claiming trademark infringement for riffing on the chain’s catchphrase. Steve Copoulos added window art reading “North now runs on Mike’s” on his Mike’s Coffee shop in North Attleborough. Dunkin’ is claiming that Mike’s is infringing on its “America Runs on Dunkin’ ” slogan.
Story in the Onion: “Report: Getting Parents Off Back Now Accounts For 38% Of Economic Growth.”
Denver Post sportswriter Terry Frei tweeted he was “uncomfortable with a Japanese driver winning the Indianapolis 500 during Memorial Day weekend.” The Post apologized. Frei is now a former Denver Post sportswriter.
Tennessee high school senior Carolina Williams got into Yale partly on the strength of a short essay she wrote, according to the Tennessean. The topic? How much she loved ordering Papa John’s Pizza, saying it evoked “feelings of independence, consolation and joy.” An admissions officer wrote back: “As a fellow lover of pizza, I laughed out loud (then ordered pizza) after reading your application.”
McDonald’s announced that it plans to offer delivery from 3,500 restaurants through UberEats by end of this month. Think about what feelings that evokes, just in case one day you might want to apply to Harvard.