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Somehow "Chubby Checker," "Hewlett-Packard," and "penis size" have all ended up in the same story. It seems there was once an app for HP's Palm OS platform called "The Chubby Checker," but it had nothing to do with the singer. Rather, it allowed women to plug in their beau's shoe size and be told the size of his "member." Needless to say, the real Chubby Checker (whose real name is Ernest Evans, but who has "Chubby Checker" trademarked) is not happy. He's suing HP and Palm for hosting the app, webOS Nation reports.
It was created by a developer called Magic Apps and was downloaded only 84 times before being removed from the App Catalog in September 2012, but Checker thinks the fact that it used his name is likely to make people associate him "with the obscene, sexual connotation and images," according to the lawsuit. Also, he never got paid for the use of his name, and people who bought the app were "misled into believing [Checker] endorsed" it. Based on the low number of downloads, Checker would probably be looking at about only $90 in damages.
