Beware of Global Greeks carrying Louis Vuittons...

In this Warner Bros photo from Hangover II
Global Greek Zach Galifianakis (left) wearing THE bag
as a porter pushes the trolley with THE luggage

It's Monday January 2nd, 2012! Happy New Year! Not a very happy one for luxury brand owner LVMH who has filed a suit against Warner Bros according to today's morning frappe from fellow Greek portal Greek Gateway!!! 

LVMH has sued Warner Bros because of the fake LV monogrammed luggage carried by Global Greek actor Zach Galifianakis in Hangover II and the reference he made to it ' Careful...that's a...that's a Louis Vuitton...'

Good luck to the people at Louis Vuitton! We have a great deal of respect for international law but please don't take yourselves so seriously...this is Hollywood THE world of total pretense, the world which gave meaning to the word 'fake'...

When we read this gem, four things sprang to mind...

One: Warner Bros should counter-sue on the grounds that they are giving LV free publicity... just think how many millions of people who saw this movie had never heard of Louis Vuitton, let alone seen their exclusive, astronomically priced, only-for-the-privileged products? How many of the people who saw these would know they were fakes?

Two:Time to copyright the Greek language folks! If Louis Vuitton can sue over the use of a word or a product that it has originated , and thus make money, imagine how much Greece could make if we sued everyone around the world who is not Greek but uses a word of Greek origin... thousands of words are floating around out there which our noble ancestors weren't 'smart' enough to copyright!

Three: We would be very happy if Louis Vuitton successfully sues the Chinese manufacturers who are knocking off its brand of products and shipping it around the world. We are truly sick and tired of these knock-offs cluttering up the streets of Athens, hawked by hundreds of illegal immigrants who play hide and seek with the Greek police!

Four: Warner Bros should have been smart enough to Buy GREEK! There are hundreds of great leather products in Greece...eg KEM  they didn't have to resort to cheap fake LV luggage after all!

A fifth point came to mind while uploading these pictures... maybe Greece should sue Louis Vuitton for allowing a knock-off manufacturer to flood the world with his copies of their goods and cheapen our beautiful Athenian Trilogy buildings...

Academy of Athens - one of Greece's magnificent classic Athenian Trilogy Buildings

Let's Get our Global Greeks on the 2011 TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World List!

It's the time of the year when we get to find out who TIME lists as the 100 most influential people in the world! 

Among the leaders, artists, innovators, icons and heroes that are listed every year we get to see some of the most influential people in the world - a list which includes vastly diverse personalities such as Hillary Clinton, Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs, Barack and Michelle Obama, George Clooney, Julian Assange, The Fukushima Power Plant workers, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Lady Gaga, Christopher Hitchens and Mohammed ElBaradei to name but a few!

It has always been great to see some of our famous Global Greeks as one of those 100 Most Influential - Arianna Huffington, Professor Nicholas A Christakis, Tina Fey and Jamie Dimon were all included in previous years in the TIME list .

This year the polling is just as exciting - we have four of our Global Greeks in the running for the annual list for 2011 and we would love to see all of them included!

Here they are:

 Betty White 

Actress

 To read more about Betty and vote,  Click Here

   Arianna Huffington, 

Publisher

To read more about Arianna and cast your vote, Click Here

  Zach Galifianakis 

Comedian

 To read more about Zach and cast your vote, Click Here

Jamie Dimon 

 JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO

To read more about Jamie and cast your vote, Click Here

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Right now with three days to go, only one is going to make it into the list - Betty White, she's ranking 30th right now! Arianna Huffington  is in the 167th place while Jamie Dimon  is fairly close behind her at 174 and Zach Galifianakis  at 197!

If  you would like to vote for one of our Global Greeks as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, just click on the name under the picture of the person you want to vote for.

To check the rankings, for a full list of candidates or to read more, Click Here

Voting closes in 3 days on April 14, 2011- so let's get voting...

To all our Global Greek candidates - Good luck!

Καλή Επιτυχία!