"Anti-Rust" April Fool's Day Joke
The American Antitrust Institute sent out a press release on Tuesday from the American Anti-Rust Institute -- the imaginary nonprofit research arm of the domestic anti-rust industry. The fake trade group reportedly threatened to sue the American Bar Association antitrust section and others "who include in their name the word antitrust, claiming trademark, copyright, and various other intellectual property violations."
Washington attorney Timothy J. Muris, speaking at a gathering of the ABA antirust section, declared that confusion between rust and trust is easy to explain, in that the recent evaporation of the nation's secretarial pool has left communications dependent on people who cannot type accurately.
The press release ended with this blurb: "We offer this editor's note at our liability insurer's request in recognition that the media not only occasionally drops a 't' or adds a hyphen but from time to time fails to deduce that an AAI April 1 offering may not be altogether straightforward."
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