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Re: Anecdote of the day

"The Cookie Thief" is a blatent rip-off of an anecdote told in "So long, and thanks for all the fish", Part 3 of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, by Douglas Adams.

I hate plagiarism....


I got it in an email a couple days ago from a yahoo group called Favorite Stories. I had no idea, just thought it was something worth posting. Are you saying the person named as the author, Valie Cox, is in reality NOT the author?

I would feel better if I could remove the entry, and get the offending post sent to the trash. Please?
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Thanks for alerting me :-) I am not one to pass on anything that isn't good.


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A newspaper to which Rudyard Kipling subscribed published by mistake an announcement of his death. Kipling wrote at once to the editor: "I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers."
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Don't worry, Diana G. The poem is original, the idea is not. It's plagiarism, not copyright theft.

And I could be wrong, of course.
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An anecdote I accidentally put in the latest joke thread and have now deleted:

At Raglan Castle, said Mr. Anthony, the ventriloquist, I gave an entertainment in the open air, and throwing my voice up into the ivy-covered ruins, said: “What are you doing there?"
To my amazement a boy answered: "I climbed up 'ere this mornin' just to see the folk and 'ear the music; I won't do no harm."
I replied: " Very well, stay there, and don't let anyone see you, do you hear?”
The reply came: "Yes, mister, I 'ear."
This got me thunders of applause. I made up my mind to risk it, so I bowed, and the boy never showed himself.

btw anecdotes are not usually copyrighted
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Anything written is automatically copyrighted. But it's the actual words, not the idea, that is protected.

I just think swiping an idea without giving credit for it is a scummy sort of thing to do.

I'll leave you with these words from the great Tom Lehrer:

"I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky.
In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarize!

Plagiarize,
Let no one else's work evade your eyes,
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes,
So don't shade your eyes,
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize...
Only be sure always to call it please, "research"."
- "Lobachevsky"
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Google search:
Your search - "At Raglan Castle, said Mr. Anthony," - did not match any documents.

Of course not all documents are on the net, but it was on the net I found it - unascribed.
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They were dining off fowl in a restaurant. “You see," he explained, as he showed her the wishbone, “you take hold here. Then we must both make a wish and pull, and when it breaks the one who has the bigger part of it will have his or her wish granted." “But I don't know what to wish for," she protested. “Oh! You can think of something," he said. “No, I can't," she replied; “I can't think of anything I want very much." “Well, I'll wish for you," he exclaimed. “Will you, really?" she asked. “Yes." “Well, then, there's no use fooling with the old wishbone," she interrupted, with a glad smile, "you can have me."
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In December 1948, a Washington, DC, radio station telephoned various ambassadors in the capital, asking what they would like for Christmas. The unedited replies were recorded and broadcast in a special program the following week. "Peace throughout the world," proclaimed the French ambassador. "Freedom for all people enslaved by imperialism," demanded the Russian ambassador. "Well, it's very kind of you to ask," came the polite voice of Sir Oliver Shewell Franks. "I'd quite like a box of crystallized fruit."
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The American artist Chester Harding, painting Daniel Boone's portrait, asked the old frontiersman, then in his eighties, if he had ever been lost. Boone replied, "No, I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days."
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In times past there was in a certain law school an aged and eccentric professor. “General information" was the old gentleman's hobby. He held it as incontrovertible that if a young lawyer possessed a large fund of miscellaneous knowledge, combined with an equal amount of common sense, he would be successful in life. So every year the professor put on his examination papers a question very far removed from the subject of criminal law. One year it was, "How many kinds of trees are there in the college yard?" the next, “What is the make-up of the present English cabinet?"
Finally the professor thought he had invented the best question of his life. It was, “Name twelve animals that inhabit the Polar Regions." The professor chuckled as he wrote this down. He was sure he would “pluck" half the students on that question and it were beyond a doubt that that opprobrious young loafer Thompson would fail. But when the professor read the examination papers, Thompson, who had not answered another question, was the only man who had solved the polar problem. This was Thompson's answer: “Six seals and six polar bears." Thompson got his degree with distinction.
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