Impersonating a journalist, perhaps?
Jason Soon on Tim Blair: “Is it any surprise that he appears in Google under the category of ‘Impersonators’ — impersonating a Journalist, perhaps?”
In other news, Tim Blair says choosing between Howard Dean and Lyndon Larouche is “like choosing between cancer and leukemia.” It might not break a black-letter interpretation of Godwin’s Law, but I prefer judicial activists anyway.
A Bright Cold Day was on to this back in June ‘03. Joke stealer! Plagiarist!
You can’t really plagiarise something you’ve never read.
Seriously, though, do you have any idea why they put you in that category? Is there another Tim Blair?
Why ask me? Ask Google. Whose services you might employ the next time a seven-month-old gag beckons.
Right, so every time I think something left in my comments is funny, I should google to see if anybody has ever posted it before. Ever. And if they have, I should just… not post it.
If only that logic applied to Michael Moore fat jokes. But then what would you blog about?
Actually, I DO Google for similar jokes if I think it’s possible someone might have had the same thought earlier. It’s all part of my “impersonating a journalist” act.
You should try it! It’ll help you avoid that awkward “looking like a total idiot” problem you’ve got.
And you shouldn’t blame someone in comments when you decide their gag is so brilliant it deserves a post all of its own. That’s your call, Robert. Don’t try to weasel out of it.
(By the way, I think my Moore fixation is rather less developed than is your fixation with me, which lately has reached a point that your girlfriend must find disturbing. I hope you don’t talk in your sleep.)
*chuckles* methinks you protest too much, Timmy
Note to TB - plagiarism is when the material is presented as one’s original work. Maybe you should invest in a dictionary (or were you “only joking” © ?)
The memory is a bit dim, and Google doesn’t help, but I remember Media Watch giving someone a belting for plagiarising P J O’Rourke. Somebody lifted an old National Lampoon story about thrashing hire cars. Can you remember who it was Tim?
Apparently Phat Phil doesn’t plagiarise: if he doesn’t, nobody does. Anyway, I believe Mr Blair was just trying to wind you up.
Here’s a question for Robert, are you a plagiariser if you’ve never had an original idea?
Actually, I DO Google for similar jokes if I think it’s possible someone might have had the same thought earlier.
Really?
Zoot — it was an editorial in Motor magazine, as I recall.
Niall — methinks you breathe too much. And repeat yourself too much. Got any other comebacks? No?
Robert — sorry, forgot I was dealing with a spaz. Is “same EXACT thought” precise enough for you? Same form of words? Same JOKE?
Whatever works for you, slowcoach. Man, the world’s only witless Irishman, and he has to come to Australia …
Wow, replacing “fat” with “lardo” or “plus-sized” makes it a whole new joke, doesn’t it?
With or without the fat the result’s the same.
Lord, the next time you stage a potato famine, could you finish the job? Please?
Oh, zoot — a friend emails that it was an editorial in Wheels magazine, not Motor, and it was during the fearsome Littlemore reign. His guess is 1992. Why, by the way, do you ask?
Fuck you.
“Lord, the next time you stage a potato famine, could you finish the job? Please?”
Whoa, Timmy, let’s not go too far or anything. I realise that in some quarters wishing death on those of Irish descent (now what’ve I ever done to you?) could be considered quite amusing, but I thought you had more respectable lodgings in which to reside.
(And that’s the most convoluted pun I’ve ever thought up. I feel almost proud…)
Oh, get over it, Rob. The potato famine happened almost as long ago as the “invasion of Australia”. Belushi was making jokes about it in the ’70s (plagiarist! plagiarist!)
So it would be okay to joke about the genocide in the Americas? And in a couple of hundred years it will be okay to joke about the near-extermination of the Jews?
Fuck you, Tim.
Tim, you weren’t “making jokes about [the potato famine]” like the great Belushi. Not unless Belushi had publicly wished that the famine had whiped out Ireland and its descendants because he found Rob Corr irritating…
(Of course, if he had, you’re blatantly ripping off his bit…)
TB - apparently you don’t remember who it was (my original question). I asked because I know you are a fan of PJ (as am I).
Zoot — No, I don’t know who wrote the editorial.
Mark — you can probably Google up the original SNL sketch. “Oh, the potato famine!” etc. Very funny. Belushi plays the role of a newsreader bitching about some Irish junkie who wants to kill him.
Rob — I’m part Irish! But only good Protestant Irish, of course. Kinda sensitive about your homeland, aren’t you, Rob? Imagine how fifth-generation Australians feel when you (here for all of 16 years) tell us we’re invaders who stole this country. Fuck you, spudboy.
Well this fifth generation Australian agrees that the country was stolen (not sure I’d blame you personally Tim).
Do you own property, zoot? As the Oils request: “GIVE IT BACK!”
I wish the Irish (some) stop using the potato famine to stop all criticism of them. After all I know some people that are Irish and they make fine servants. Can someone help me reclaim my ancestral land.
You dopey Bog-trotters have been having the tripe beaten out of you by the English for about six hundred years- a nation only capable of beating the French without large amounts of assistance.
Haven’t even been able to reclaim a pocket of dirt of about 2000 acres (which just so happens to hold the only worthwhile industry on the whole island) from a few drunken squaddies and a tribe of inbred Paisleyites.
Starved in droves when unable to grow a tuber that even the bloody Peruvians can sprout in the dessicated soil of the Andes.
Word of advice, Rob- if its a battle of wits you want, best to be armed when you go on the assault.
All right, comments are closing. If you want to make racist comments and think they’re witty, do it on your own damn blog.
By the way, a direct quotation with a reference to its source does not, by any stretch of the imagination, constitute plagiarism.