From a friend…
The Hartford Courant’s Top 10 Excuses For Plagiarism
10. Paid for stories but clerk forgot to deactivate inventory control tags at checkout.
9. Absent-mindedly put stories in handbag while searching for car keys.
8. Testing journalistic security for an investigative piece on how easy it is to steal stories.
7. Found stories in discarded copies of other newspapers; thought they didn’t need them any more.
6. Desperate for copy to fill space where George Gombossy’s column was supposed to go.
5. Payback. Every afternoon Journal Inquirer had same Beetle Bailey comic strip Courant ran that morning.
4. Editors’ judgment impaired by hairspray inhaled when passing new Fox 61 studio.
3. Editors barely conscious; now subsisting on cold medicine and vending-machine coffee.
2. “Can’t stay away from Journal Inquirer copy; it’s our soul mate.”
1. Internship program with Cheshire Correctional Institution not working out.
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Very funny – thanks for the laugh.
I appreciate your sense of humor, but this is piling on.
One more: “Thought that was why it’s called ‘copy.’”
wah,wha, dave, this is not piling on. it’s jus’ plain ole’ funny. when we do it it’s sport; when someone else does it, it’s piling on? c’mon, grow up!!