Delcambre Direct worked in Delcambre and spawned several spinoffs in other communities around Louisiana.
It has since produced an array of spinoffs, including helfie (hairstyle self), belfie (bum selfie), welfie (workout selfie), drelfie (drunken selfie), and even bookshelfie – a snap taken for the purposes of literary self-promotion.
Even so, there have been initiatives such as the business bank, the cuts in corporation tax, the tax breaks for companies that exploit patents, the catapult centres to encourage exploitation of spinoffs from universities, that may improve Britain's industrial performance given time.
(That endorsement, however, does not extend to hopeless and obnoxious spinoffs like belfie, shelfie, drelfie, lelfie and others, which are about as likely to survive as "Jelfie", a word I just coined meaning "a selfie taken by the Johnson columnist")."Selfie" is the clear winner by the traditional standards, a zeitgeisty new word that seems to sum up 2013.
If all those films reach cinemas by 2021, that will mark a new film every 2 years for 20 years - not including spinoffs.
The Fast and Furious series is about to get a whole lot bigger, as Vin Diesel has revealed the team behind the motor franchise are planning to make numerous prequels and spinoffs.
Take this interactive quiz to help you decide who to vote for... Click here to launch The success of The Trews, which is as divisive as Brand himself, has produced spinoffs including a cafe at the New Era Housing Estate in East London, which Brand helped to rescue from developers.
Spinoffs also improve the short- and long-term performance of the companies themselves".
When he draws up a contract with Miramax, he has his lawyer include an unusual provision that secures him all the rights to the characters in the future, so that nobody can use them — for sequels or spinoffs or marketing or anything else — without his permission, and so that he can use them again himself in a movie whenever he likes.
Such shows alternated, increasingly, with reality series featuring self-deluded contestants vying for the affections of unhinged but wealthy celebrities (VH1 is hardly alone in airing such shows, of course), and spinoffs of those shows — "The Surreal Life" begetting "Flavor of Love," begetting "I Love New York," begetting "I Love Money".
And as a producer, he oversaw such ingenious spinoffs as "Superbad" and "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," which sparked some fine careers.
