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Plagiarism: A Love Story


Who doesn't love plagiarism? We are all on the constant quest to wrongfully appropriate, closely imitate, purloin, and publish, another author's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions, and then represent them as our own original work. Whether it be stealing a poem, to make you sound romantic. Stealing an essay, to make you pass every class you've ever taken. Or simply stealing something I have written. 

I don't quite understand that last one. After reading things I have written most people are disgusted. They get angry and then never speak to me again. It would be different if this shit was funny, then I could understand taking it and trying to pass it off as my own. But such is not the case. 

I'm still trying to figure out this whole "internet" thing and I often have to search articles I have written to see if the key words register on search engines. Sometimes I find my work posted on other websites and that really makes me happy. Firstly, because it means someone enjoys my writing enough to duplicate it. And secondly because I am given credit for writing the material. 

But then I found someone honoring me with the most sincere form of flattery. He took my literary piece and transformed it into this literary piece-of-shit:




Awful. 



To be fair, Doc didn't steal this post from my website. He expertly copied and pasted the article from PointsInCase.com, I can tell this because the line "Death by suffocation: the humane alternative to death by orgasm" does not appear in the original article, but does appear in the PIC version

I decided to send Doc an email:





Myspace mail has informed me that Doc has read my email message. He has not responded with words, but instead has set his blog and profile to private. Maybe he is looking for a retort to plagiarize before he replies. 

Thanks for the homage Doc.