Comments on: Impersonating a journalist, perhaps? http://www.redrag.net/2004/01/28/impersonating-a-journalist-perhaps/ "The thinking Laborite would as lief be found in bed with a cobra as in a committee room armed with 'arguments' from the Tory press." --- Truth, Perth, 19 June 1915. Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:29:18 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: tim http://www.redrag.net/2004/01/28/impersonating-a-journalist-perhaps/comment-page-1/#comment-2509 tim Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2004/01/28/impersonating-a-journalist-perhaps/#comment-2509 A Bright Cold Day was on to this back in <a href="http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/002860.php">June '03</a>. Joke stealer! Plagiarist! A Bright Cold Day was on to this back in June ‘03. Joke stealer! Plagiarist!

]]> By: Robert http://www.redrag.net/2004/01/28/impersonating-a-journalist-perhaps/comment-page-1/#comment-2510 Robert Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2004/01/28/impersonating-a-journalist-perhaps/#comment-2510 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? 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?

]]> By: tim http://www.redrag.net/2004/01/28/impersonating-a-journalist-perhaps/comment-page-1/#comment-2511 tim Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2004/01/28/impersonating-a-journalist-perhaps/#comment-2511 Why ask me? Ask Google. Whose services you might employ the next time a seven-month-old gag beckons. Why ask me? Ask Google. Whose services you might employ the next time a seven-month-old gag beckons.

]]> By: Robert http://www.redrag.net/2004/01/28/impersonating-a-journalist-perhaps/comment-page-1/#comment-2512 Robert Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2004/01/28/impersonating-a-journalist-perhaps/#comment-2512 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? 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?

]]> By: tim http://www.redrag.net/2004/01/28/impersonating-a-journalist-perhaps/comment-page-1/#comment-2513 tim Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2004/01/28/impersonating-a-journalist-perhaps/#comment-2513 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.) 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.)

]]> By: Niall http://www.redrag.net/2004/01/28/impersonating-a-journalist-perhaps/comment-page-1/#comment-2514 Niall Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2004/01/28/impersonating-a-journalist-perhaps/#comment-2514 *chuckles* methinks you protest too much, Timmy *chuckles* methinks you protest too much, Timmy

]]> By: zoot http://www.redrag.net/2004/01/28/impersonating-a-journalist-perhaps/comment-page-1/#comment-2515 zoot Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2004/01/28/impersonating-a-journalist-perhaps/#comment-2515 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? 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?

]]> By: S Whiplash http://www.redrag.net/2004/01/28/impersonating-a-journalist-perhaps/comment-page-1/#comment-2516 S Whiplash Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2004/01/28/impersonating-a-journalist-perhaps/#comment-2516 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? 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?

]]> By: Robert http://www.redrag.net/2004/01/28/impersonating-a-journalist-perhaps/comment-page-1/#comment-2517 Robert Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2004/01/28/impersonating-a-journalist-perhaps/#comment-2517 <em>Actually, I DO Google for similar jokes if I think it's possible someone might have had the same thought earlier.</em> <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=michael+moore+fat">Really?</a> Actually, I DO Google for similar jokes if I think it’s possible someone might have had the same thought earlier.

Really?

]]> By: tim http://www.redrag.net/2004/01/28/impersonating-a-journalist-perhaps/comment-page-1/#comment-2518 tim Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2004/01/28/impersonating-a-journalist-perhaps/#comment-2518 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? 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?

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