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Hilarious article of the day.

posted by [personal profile] orichalcum at 02:10pm on 18/02/2008 under
Oof. The thing I hate most about getting older is that it seems like minor injuries hurt so much more. I slipped on black ice this morning while walking Eowyn (luckily w/o Mac) and face-planted on the sidewalk. I'm fine, but my knee, although only a bit scraped, feels massively stiff and I just still feel out of sorts.

On a more amusing note, this is the funniest case of plagiarism I've read about in a long time. A bestselling romance writer, in search of good dialogue between a Native American chieftain and his brave pioneer lover, copied....a nature article about ferrets.

Seriously. Read it. Laugh. Make your Monday better.
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posted by [personal profile] siercia at 08:22pm on 18/02/2008
hot damn that was funny.

I can't believe the garbage that makes it through to publication these days.
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posted by [identity profile] retsuko.livejournal.com at 08:45pm on 18/02/2008
She plagiarized some Longfellow poems, too.
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posted by [identity profile] orichalcum.livejournal.com at 08:49pm on 18/02/2008
Wow, that takes bad taste as well as plagiarism, depending on the poems!
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posted by [identity profile] grnarmadillo.livejournal.com at 09:21pm on 18/02/2008
Also, a book that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1930. I guess it never occurred to this woman that some day, Google would be invented and make it trivial to bust her sorry tail.

Amusingly, this incident raised over $10,000 to save the Black-Footed Ferret, thanks to a $5000 matching donation from author Nora Roberts.
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posted by [identity profile] emilymorgan.livejournal.com at 08:57pm on 18/02/2008
You tagged this entry! That is going to be a useful tag. *laughs and laughs*
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posted by [identity profile] ladybird97.livejournal.com at 09:45pm on 18/02/2008
Plagiarism Ferrets!!

I heard about that incident - it made Wait Wait Don't Tell Me a couple weeks ago :) It's awesome.

And I'm sorry that you had an ice-owie! *hug* I hope you feel better soon!
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posted by [identity profile] digitalemur.livejournal.com at 10:46pm on 18/02/2008
I am going to have to start telling my students that if they do plagiarize, the Dean of the College will release the plagiarism ferrets to eat their toes. It'll get a laugh. And if I can put some students up to asking said Dean where he keeps the ferrets, it could be really amusing.
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posted by [identity profile] meepodeekin.livejournal.com at 09:25pm on 18/02/2008
Plz to be careful, kthx! My uncle tripped on ice when he was living in Minneapolis and he has a pin in his ankle to this day. Black ice and falling are no joke. I've been noticing my age about things like that a lot lately. I just don't bounce back at the same rate as I used to.

The ferret article was hilarious. I am now trying to think of hot ways to use the text of my published articles!


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posted by [identity profile] orichalcum.livejournal.com at 09:51pm on 18/02/2008
There's a whole Chronicle Forum thread in which people try to imagine their research being used in romance novels.

I didn't even bother to comment. Too Easy. Besides, if I don't get a t-t job, I might just write one!
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posted by [identity profile] ladybird97.livejournal.com at 10:26pm on 18/02/2008
*cackle* Christie, my first grad-school roommate, always said that we should write romance novels if the grad school thing didn't work out for us :)

Romance novels based on my research would be...um...probably going against everything that I'm trying to actually prove. And also, a little Too Easy ;)
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posted by [identity profile] meepodeekin.livejournal.com at 12:15am on 19/02/2008
Yes, with your research area, that would be cheating. My research does have a lot of balls, but that's about as good as it gets. :) I'll have to look at the Chronicle now.
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posted by [identity profile] pseudosilence.livejournal.com at 10:58pm on 18/02/2008
Wow. Even aside from the plagiarism, that is some seriously bad writing. But on the plus side, I just bookmarked smartbitchestrashybooks.com
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posted by [identity profile] mrmorse.livejournal.com at 11:22pm on 18/02/2008
This is similar to a story from last year about an Australian TV commercial for Ricoh copiers that ripped off a physics lecture for its dialog. The story, from the perspective of the writer of the lecture, is on his blog, although I'm having trouble connecting to his site at the moment.

In that case, the writing seems at least appropriate for ad, unlike in the romance novel, where the characters are in the middle of a romantic moment and then start lecturing each other.
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