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Good_Gawd_Yall - Unperson's avatar

I'm sorry she's gone. I read her book about going to Africa with Bogart and Hepburn to make "The African Queen," and it made me wish I could meet her. Too bad some jagoff had to make this a story about his lazy ass, instead of the tribute to a fabulous and interesting woman it should have been.

Vienna Woods's avatar

You are correct, life is much easier when you use plagiarism.

Vienna Woods's avatar

Dammit. This reminds me that in a month's time I will be teaching my lesson on the evils of plagiarism and how to avoid it to a class full of Gr 11 English students. I need hardly say that I have flagged similar examples to those in the article AND the comments over the years, and not only do the students, but sometimes their parents, try to argue that their clever rewrites are not, in fact, plagiarism. Doesn't everyone know that leaving out a word or phrase, changing a word here or there, or changing the word order, TOTALLY makes it their own?

bobbert's avatar

There's something familiar about this...

bobbert's avatar

Imitation is the sincerest form of theft.*

*I forget from whom I stole that.

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"Borkette" would be a great name for a mommy blog (with dick jokes).

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"See me after class." Too bad Bacall never played a schoolteacher...

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Removed for being redundant . . . all the phrases were already out there on other web sites.

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Google translate into Chinese, and back, and this is pretty much what you get.

Spotts1701, Taking Bible Guns's avatar

I see he forgot the old adage - "If you steal from one, it's plagarism. If you steal from many, it's research."

Olav_Pompatus's avatar

Plagiarism just makes life so much easier. You know I am right.

Msgr MΞ©ment classic β˜‘οΈ's avatar

I'd tell them to pucker their lips and bend over

Not sure why, but I would.

Martini Glambassador's avatar

Since when did Rand Paul start writing obits for Hollywood starlets?

Ikimizi's avatar

It's cute that they think it's her fashion choices that made men fall to their knees.