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Guess who got fired?

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I would be the viewer who would rather watch anything else, even the test pattern or House Hunters International, than that show.

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Absolutely, now get off my lawn!

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Which famous plagiarist are you most like? Take our quiz and find out!

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I'm going to use this idea on my FB to shame my idiot friends who take those surveys.

Naturally, I will not credit you.

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Of course, quantum plagiarism is subject to the uncertainty principle: if the plagiarism goes unobserved, the originality of the statement remains intact.

Hence the concept of "deep originality," first articulated by Heisenberg: If the plagiarism is deeply embedded within a shit-ton of recycled ideas, hack phrases, and fatuous truisms, it is harder to see.

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Ruh roh, Raggy! It seems that on Friday, Benny <a href="http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/bensmith\/editors-note-an-apology-to-our-readers" target="_blank">found himself without a job</a>!

Ben Smith says he found 41 instances of plagiarism on review of Johnson's work, so he had to let him go. I guess the plagiarism threshold for continued employment at Buzzfeed must be 40 instances or less, according to the new, more stringent "journalistic standards" over there.

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I assume that Benny is not of Japanese descent. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wik..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Adachi">http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

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Gawker's reason for existence

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they probably plagiarized that from wonkville

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Buzzfeed- for all those lackwits who find USA Today articles too long and involved

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But Buzzfeed gives me important informations I need to know NOW. Like quizzes which tell me which superhero I most identify with.

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"All brontosauruses are thin at one end, much, much thicker in the middle, and then thin again at the far end by Nazi bombers."

--Benny "Buzzticle" Johnson

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Oh god. I am SO sick of those surveys on Facebook, which all my friends do. My suggestions for new topics: a) Which STD are you? b) Which member of Hitler's inner circle do you most resemble?

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Ah, but Kaili, you are obviously unfamilar with the defense for plagiarism presented to me by the truly deluded mother of one of my students this spring: No matter what you write, it has already been written EXACTLY LIKE THAT somewhere by someone on the net, so it is impossible to accuse anyone of plagiarizing from anywhere. She also said she didn't understand my "ideology" regarding plagiarism. That ideology would be: If you plagiarize, you get a fucking zero. I am really looking forward to retirement.

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It means you have to dig really really deep to find any original content.

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