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Just dropping in to try to make another b3ta.com meme go viral...
http://mushroom.nosox.org/b3ta/choosebushposter.png
Thought it may be appreciated
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Yay for Alexander... boo, I'm sorry, for Dahl , who I find to be an insufferable, parochial snob.
Also the way he wrote his grandchildren into his books as orphans disturbs me...
The resemblance between the opening sequence of the first Potter and my least favourite bits of Dahl almost stopped me from going any further... I still look on the Dursley sequences as a dreaery main course to be suffered before a delightful pudding.
The sequence will, of course, end with Harry being forced to teamup with Voldemort to combat the true threat to the world, Severus Snape and his Eternally Floppy Fringe.
Or maybe that was the Matrix, I forget.
Okay, and looking over what my alma mater has actually done... pretty much what was said above: he's been given a mark of zero for completed coursework, but they've not failed him yet. They may give him the opportunity to do three years course work, but hey. They haven't decided yet.
If it was a burglar, and he'd not been caught before, but just before making off with the Pink Panther the cops linked him to three years of petty robbery and sent him down for five years, would folks say he should be given another chance because the cops were incompetent before?
Pfeh. He just reminds me of another local who got into the papers claiming the hospital was negligent becuase his mother died there. Sorry, his 85 year old mother who had suffered major head trauma and massive stroke. What did he think was going to happen? Again, there was much posturing of "planning to sue", and the institution getting a bum rap for saying nothing because they hadn't decided what to do about the accusation the moment it was made.
Hey, couldn't see it in any of the other comments, but is anyone else here a graduate of UKC, apart from me?
Yup, BA Drama & Philosophy, UKC 1992, hons III.
(as a translation note, yes, I got a 3rd in Drama & philosophy. This qualifies me to talk loudly in restaurants, and proves I turned up to the exams, spelt my name write, and didn't plagiarize the little work I completed).
I don't know what changed in the 10 odd years between myself and this guy being in the humanities dept, but I do know that Do Not Plagiarize was one of only three rules that were drilled into every student.
(the others were don't eat the ducks and don't go on the roof. Yes, thankyou, I did look them up on alt.folkore.urban, and I know every other university in the world has those "rules").
The advice a friendly lecturer gave was "We know you're going to copy from secondary sources: for god's sake rewrite it, at least that demonstrates you've enough respect for us that you make a little effort, and it may actually help you understand what the essay should be about."
Should he have been caught before? Hell yes. Enough guys were caught early on when I was there to put The Fear into everyone else. Maybe standards have slipped.
But, give him another three years "education"? That I'll bet he's already borrowed form the government to buy the first time? Feck it, next time, let him use the Open University and put up his own cash.
Bringing the court case shows him to be an arrogant ass, and as lazy a plagiarist as the lecturers are readers... or perhaps not.
Knowing the internal mail system at UKC, I'd guess he's been sent little slips about his work getting zero for plagiarism, and he either didn't collect his mail or chucked it without reading it.
As for impeaching Rumsfeld, I quote Robin D Laws.... "Why take the grnade away from your enemy when he's not finished blowing up yet?"
He's doing more damage to the Bush administration's chances by staying than going. In election year, I hope he stays around as a gross embarassment right up to polling day.
I had the same problem with comments until I re-sized the window... PRESTO! All comments!
remind me... did she blame the public yet?
Oops, sorry, she just implied that they were buying the wrong books at the wrong places.
Teresa, you know full well no-one would put up with reading you blog if we weren't trying to suck up to you... and I have a full shrine to you and Patrick in my loft. Don't you realise, unless we sacrifice our pride, attention and first born children to your dark appetites, you'll not publish our perfect books, and instead keep pushing out that trash you pretend you like as part of your plan to bring down Western civilization? Or was that Western Union, I get confused.
But, as Mike's probably noticed, there do seem to be a lot of them out there recently, and a couple of old favourites have re-appeared in the RPG fora. It's either that new planet and the re-commissioning of Dr Who, I tells ya.
And Father Ted showed the proper attitude to times like this, with the time honoured phrase "A shower of bastards"
Hmm, Richard in Neverwhere, who Neil outed as based on Richard Curtis, who infamously uses Hugh Grant as his Marty Stu in his movies...
Ah well... no mention anywhere of worst Mary Sue ever...
http://www.hitentertainment.com/thomasthetankengine/magic/home.html
If you ever wondered what happens when a Mary Sue writer gets hold of the rights to a setting... no, not even then. I only had to watch the damn thing because of my 4 year old son.
Suffice it to say, the Island of Sodor is saved by a new engine called Lady, who is voiced by the writer/director/producer/owner of the rights to thomas the tank engine.
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