I do not consort with lawyers and hobos, not now and not fictitiously.

[Testily muttered as he savored Reggie's enraged reaction. He noted Reggie keeping the lanyard with a glowing smirk -- narcissists found it so hard to abandon their own imagery, didn't they?]

Then you would have to be seen buying merchandise with my soon to be trademarked image on it, wouldn't you?

[If anything came out of this experience, it was the importance of protecting intellectual property.]

Now, now, Reggie -- don't get too flustered. This was simply someone's fantasy, their own little artistic joke. They have no idea how closely they had hit the mark.