How easy is it to confuse a beer drinker?

[Superfly]

Well, the courts think it's very easy for a beer drinker to confuse a quality micro-brew named "Billy Budd" with the storm drain runoff called "Budweiser" (aka Buttwiper)

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A New Hampshire brewery cannot use the name "Billy Budd" for its ale, because beer drinkers might confuse it with the "Bud" family of beers, a federal judge has ruled.

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Budweiser....the Wal-Mart of beer

[felonious thunk]

1. Apparently

easier than confusing Fox News viewers. At least the judge there realized that Al's book wasn't really going to confuse them.

[ironflange]

2. Hmm, as long as we're on the topic of Melville

Why doesn't Bud just change its name to Typee? That would more accurately describe the character of their product.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

3. Maybe they should call it

Dilly Dudd and laugh it off.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet; and Big-Beer's corporate dishwater will never rise to the occasion.