Disney Owns Thursday!

[Renegade]

Breaking news: Disney Owns Thursday!

Having bought Marvel Comics earlier in the week, Disney lawyers claim that having the rights to the Mighty Thor also gives them copyright over Thursday, the day named for Thor. This entitles Disney to a usage fee for any activity you do today.

[thalaw2]

Why this was their sneaky little plot all along?  Well it won't work on me!  Here in China Thursday is called the "4th day of the week" (xing qi si 星期四) and therefore has nothing to do with Thor....Besides with the time difference it's Friday here anyway.

[Reepicheep]

Everyone stop! Disney is watching you!

[stumpy]

Everyone stop! Disney is watching you!

I'd say turnabout is fair play, but I haven't watched Disney in a while now, excepting maybe Lost and some pixar movies...


BTW, aren't like half the English weekday names derived from Norse gods?  Freya --> Friday,  Odin --> Wednesday,  etc?

[Alaric]

Everyone stop! Disney is watching you!

I'd say turnabout is fair play, but I haven't watched Disney in a while now, excepting maybe Lost and some pixar movies...


BTW, aren't like half the English weekday names derived from Norse gods?  Freya --> Friday,  Odin --> Wednesday,  etc?

More than half... although, technically, they're derived from Anglo-Saxon gods, who just happened to be very similar to the Norse gods, being other forms of the basic Germanic pantheon. So, actually, Thursday is named after the Anglo-Saxon god Thunor (the 'n' has been lost, and the vowels have run together), rather than Thor.

Except Saturday, which for some reason is named after a Roman god...

[Trelau]

I never noticed that in french the name of the days comes from the planet of the solar system, except Monday (= Lundi -> Lune = Moon) and Sunday
if i may: they bought the right to thor comic book, and not to thor norse god, who as little to do with his comic book counter parts. thay also own hercule in his comic book form, who also has little in common with the mytological hero.
but funny though nonetheless; who published that "fake anouncement" and what was the point of the article? (i'm assuming they are not disney lover to joke about them like that...)

[Alaric]

I never noticed that in french the name of the days comes from the planet of the solar system, except Monday (= Lundi -> Lune = Moon) and Sunday
if i may: they bought the right to thor comic book, and not to thor norse god, who as little to do with his comic book counter parts. thay also own hercule in his comic book form, who also has little in common with the mytological hero.
but funny though nonetheless; who published that "fake anouncement" and what was the point of the article? (i'm assuming they are not disney lover to joke about them like that...)

The planets are named after Roman gods, however. The English names of the days of the week come from the names of Germanic gods who were thought of as equivalent to the Roman gods the planets are named after. For example, the Romans associated Thor with Jupiter, both being thunder gods, and Odin with Mercury- both were gods of knowledge and death. To the ancients, the Sun and the Moon were considered planets, also- they moved against the background of fixed stars, and they were always there, so they were planets.

And I'm pretty sure Renegade started this thread purely as a joke- if there had been an actual "fake article", he would have likely posted a link. Although, it's the sort of thing that could have appeared in the Onion...

[Tawodi Osdi]

Wouldn't the Scandinavians have prior cultural claim to Thor, anyway?  Does Disney get the rights to the name America because of Captain America or to entomology because of Ant-Man, Wasp, and Yellow Jacket?  The ramifications could get ugly.