{"id":66,"date":"2010-09-16T04:32:44","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T04:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/catholicsmediaandculture\/2010\/09\/ihop-v-ihop-the-famed-restaurant-chain-sues-the-international-house-of-prayer.html"},"modified":"2010-09-16T04:32:44","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T04:32:44","slug":"ihop-v-ihop-the-famed-restaurant-chain-sues-the-international-house-of-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/catholicsmediaandculture\/2010\/09\/ihop-v-ihop-the-famed-restaurant-chain-sues-the-international-house-of-prayer.html","title":{"rendered":"IHOP v. IHOP: The famed restaurant chain sues the International House of Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Restaurant week continues in this space.<\/p>\n

After my impassioned defense of McDonald’s<\/a> from the food police yesterday, today I’d like to weigh in on a lawsuit involving the International House of Pancakes. And, of course, I’d like to conduct this weigh-in before breakfast.<\/p>\n

It seems the restaurant is suing<\/a> the International House of Prayer because they both share the initials IHOP. This could be the most exciting courtroom drama since LA Law<\/i><\/a> — or, at least, since the World Wrestling Federation had its head handed to it<\/a> in its legal cage match with the World Wildlife Fund over the letters WWF (not to be confused with WTF). In any event, the World Wrestling Federation is now World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) proving once and for all that cute animals beat ugly wrestlers every time.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, a lot of heartburn (and I don’t mean from too many pancakes) can be spared on both sides of the IHOP v. IHOP battle and they will settle their dispute before actually going to court. They might want to learn a lesson from the Geek Squad versus God Squad<\/a> logo non-squabble in which Fr. Luke Strand, the Catholic priest who rode around Fond du Lac, Wisconsin in a special God Squad car (like Batman<\/i><\/a> but with a collar instead of a cowl) amiably agreed to change his vehicle’s similar name design once he learned the geeks at the Geek Squad didn’t like it. I think God likes it when we choose to avoid fighting over silly things. <\/p>\n

BTW, the mention of Fon du Lac, Wisconsin in this story gives me an idea. Fondue Pancakes! Hop to it IHOP!<\/p>\n

But I digress <\/p>\n

Getting back to the issue at hand, maybe the International House of Prayer could tweak its name and become something like the International House of Prayer and<\/u><\/i> Enlightenment. IHOPE is even better than IHOP! <\/p>\n

Then, to really smooth things over, their prayer breakfasts can be held at IHOP.<\/p>\n

This just in: A quick Google search reveals that there is a Detroit ministry<\/a> operating under the name IHOPE. This acronym business is hard. There are only 26 letters in the whole freakin’ alphabet! That’s it. We need to invent new letters!
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