The Scrabbled: Making Fun of Each Other since '99

Poor Michael Kupperman.

As the rest of us already know.

McSweeneys plagiarism. McSweeneys plagiarism. McSweeneys plagiarism. McSweeneys plagiarism. McSweeneys plagiarism. McSweeneys plagiarism. McSweeneys plagiarism. McSweeneys plagiarism. McSweeneys plagiarism. McSweeneys plagiarism. McSweeneys plagiarism. McSweeneys plagiarism. McSweeneys plagiarism. McSweeneys plagiarism. McSweeneys plagiarism. McSweeneys plagiarism.

So I read the scrabbled while I am at work. Occasionally, there are students in my office who read over my shoulder. Some time ago we had that Velociraptor haiku thing. That was a hoot. One of my kids was inspired by that, so much so that he stole it directly and put a contest in the school paper:

A velociraptor is chasing you while riding a hoverboard, write a haiku about how you would survive. Best entries will be published in the next issue.

Should we sue?

According to the Wikipedia page the Style Invitational has been going on since 1993. Every week, readers are invited to submit a humorous response to some creative prompt. This week’s asks the audience to write a funny diary or journal entry for someone, famous or not, for any point in history.

I read this most assuredly plagiarized McSweeney’s article and can only envision my future self 10-20 years from now, scolding my son for inappropriately equipping his Materia / Espers or AWPing from the other side of de_dust like a goddam sissy.

This original post was copycatted here.

I could have also went with: You oughta change your display name to “Rod is not-so fresh”.

This reminds me of that time that McSweeneys.net plagiarized. Which in turn, reminds me to keep coming up with ways to put McSweeneys.net and “plagiarism” in the same sentence.

As we are all aware, there are some individuals or groups (McSweeney’s) that like to plagiarize material (plagiarize!). It’s been well established here on this very website that plagiarism, particularly by McSweeney’s (who has been accused of plagiarism, because McSweeney’s plagiarizes, those damned plagiarists) will not be tolerated in any form. We are like a group of plagiarist watchdogs, doing our best to fight plagiarism on any level (especially if the plagiarism is by McSweeney’s, home of the whopper plagiarist). This brings me to my point:
The worst case of plagiarism in our nation’s history!

Don’t know how common knowledge this is, but George Harrison was once sued for <a href=“http://www.mcsweeneys.com>plagiarism and lost! Benedict.com has ”http://www.benedict.com/Audio/Harrison/Harrison.aspx">the details and a side-by-side comparison. What do you think? Apparently later the court admitted that Harrison could have subconsciously plagiarized the song, but the Chiffons were still awarded the settlement.