WHAT KEIKO SHOULD HAVE DONE INSTEAD
I think you're dead. As far as the blogging world is concerned, I think you would be... as soon as they find you.
What's with the big idea? Why go into this despicable, humiliating, self-annihilating dimwitted thing called 'plagiarism' when there's a host of other things you could have done for want of originality, creativeness or plain old-fashioned 'stories to tell?'
For instance, you could have quoted passages from the Bible. I'm not sure if you're a Catholic but it really would have been much better and God would probably be smiling at you now. At the very least, you wouldn't be in this shit you're in. So too, even if you didn't give credit to your source and claimed the words of God to be your own, people would have taken you to be just another nutcase, but then, there's no crime in that. In short, no lawsuit!
Another thing you could have done to stay on the safe side is create a website where you could deposit forwarded emails you receive from your friends, granted that you had any. Fact is, I have one such site myself. Come to think of it, why didn't you just pilfer from that site? I wouldn't have minded it. Although it's technically also a part of my life because they're emails MY FRIENDS have sent me and which I've forwarded to MY OTHER FRIENDS, they're still things I didn't want cluttering my inbox, but which I didn't want to let go of either, you would have been welcome to it. After all, it's just my junkyard.
Now in case this doesn't interest you, I've got another suggestion up my sleeve. There are zillions of things you could have copied from magazines, and if you wanted to put character into your clippings, you could have zeroed in on women's magazines. You know these articles giving you tips on how to overcome every genre of insecurity ever thought of by mankind? You would have done remarkable service to a lot of blogging people if you only featured those articles on your site. Let me give you an example of the titles I found interesting.
1. How to Keep a Man Interested After 3 Hours With Keiko
2. Why You Need an Unabridged Copy of the Thesaurus in Order to Keep Your Friends if Your Name is Keiko
3. Get Famous the Keiko Way
There, doesn't that interest you? I'm sorry but I can't provide you with my source... not unless you tell me where you got the rest of your entries other than those we already know of. It's tit for tat, girl... you show me yours, I show you mine.
And then again, if you wanted to come off as an intellectual bimbo, you could have cut and pasted copies of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Martin Luther King's Washington Speech, or even all of Churchill's wartime speeches. Still, if you fail to give credits to these people, it's perfectly fine... they're dead guys. They couldn't possibly charge you personally for plagiarizing them and people would again take you for a nutcase... pretty much what your reputation is these days minus the rage you've stirred up. Again, no lawsuit. Or you could have reasearched on their lives and put the events on your journal as currently ongoing things... you would have re-created oppression of the blacks and even WWII in some obscure part of the world and even Bush wouldn't have known about it. Gee, that should be monumental, so much that you could have even outdone yourself with your current popularity. You'd be a hero baby!
If, however, you believe you have even an iota of originality in you, you could have taken very simple snippets from your daily life and come up with truths that men have been searching for for ages.
Let me show you how.
Day 1: Woke up at 6:30 am, had breakfast at 7:00 am. Had 1 ham and cheese sandwhich.
Day 2: Woke up at 6:30 am, had breakfast at 7:00 am. Had 1 ham and cheese sandwhich.
Day 3: Woke up at 6:45 am, had breakfast at 7:45 am. Had 2 ham and cheese sandwhiches.
Oh my heart! Now I realize 3 things.
1. I have to wake up before I can have my breakfast.
2. If I wake up 15 minutes later than usual, I would be having my breakfast 15 minutes later than usual.
3. If I have 2 ham and cheese sandwhiches, I would feel more stuffed than if I only had one.
See? Why couldn't you have thought of these things instead?
Oh, right. So sorry but I forgot. You do not have the equipment for it. Tsk, tsk. Too bad. I would have lent you half of mine but I need the whole of it for my next blog entry. Sorry kiddo, no deal.
Or perhaps... hey, would you like to copy this entry?
I think you're dead. As far as the blogging world is concerned, I think you would be... as soon as they find you.
What's with the big idea? Why go into this despicable, humiliating, self-annihilating dimwitted thing called 'plagiarism' when there's a host of other things you could have done for want of originality, creativeness or plain old-fashioned 'stories to tell?'
For instance, you could have quoted passages from the Bible. I'm not sure if you're a Catholic but it really would have been much better and God would probably be smiling at you now. At the very least, you wouldn't be in this shit you're in. So too, even if you didn't give credit to your source and claimed the words of God to be your own, people would have taken you to be just another nutcase, but then, there's no crime in that. In short, no lawsuit!
Another thing you could have done to stay on the safe side is create a website where you could deposit forwarded emails you receive from your friends, granted that you had any. Fact is, I have one such site myself. Come to think of it, why didn't you just pilfer from that site? I wouldn't have minded it. Although it's technically also a part of my life because they're emails MY FRIENDS have sent me and which I've forwarded to MY OTHER FRIENDS, they're still things I didn't want cluttering my inbox, but which I didn't want to let go of either, you would have been welcome to it. After all, it's just my junkyard.
Now in case this doesn't interest you, I've got another suggestion up my sleeve. There are zillions of things you could have copied from magazines, and if you wanted to put character into your clippings, you could have zeroed in on women's magazines. You know these articles giving you tips on how to overcome every genre of insecurity ever thought of by mankind? You would have done remarkable service to a lot of blogging people if you only featured those articles on your site. Let me give you an example of the titles I found interesting.
1. How to Keep a Man Interested After 3 Hours With Keiko
2. Why You Need an Unabridged Copy of the Thesaurus in Order to Keep Your Friends if Your Name is Keiko
3. Get Famous the Keiko Way
There, doesn't that interest you? I'm sorry but I can't provide you with my source... not unless you tell me where you got the rest of your entries other than those we already know of. It's tit for tat, girl... you show me yours, I show you mine.
And then again, if you wanted to come off as an intellectual bimbo, you could have cut and pasted copies of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Martin Luther King's Washington Speech, or even all of Churchill's wartime speeches. Still, if you fail to give credits to these people, it's perfectly fine... they're dead guys. They couldn't possibly charge you personally for plagiarizing them and people would again take you for a nutcase... pretty much what your reputation is these days minus the rage you've stirred up. Again, no lawsuit. Or you could have reasearched on their lives and put the events on your journal as currently ongoing things... you would have re-created oppression of the blacks and even WWII in some obscure part of the world and even Bush wouldn't have known about it. Gee, that should be monumental, so much that you could have even outdone yourself with your current popularity. You'd be a hero baby!
If, however, you believe you have even an iota of originality in you, you could have taken very simple snippets from your daily life and come up with truths that men have been searching for for ages.
Let me show you how.
Day 1: Woke up at 6:30 am, had breakfast at 7:00 am. Had 1 ham and cheese sandwhich.
Day 2: Woke up at 6:30 am, had breakfast at 7:00 am. Had 1 ham and cheese sandwhich.
Day 3: Woke up at 6:45 am, had breakfast at 7:45 am. Had 2 ham and cheese sandwhiches.
Oh my heart! Now I realize 3 things.
1. I have to wake up before I can have my breakfast.
2. If I wake up 15 minutes later than usual, I would be having my breakfast 15 minutes later than usual.
3. If I have 2 ham and cheese sandwhiches, I would feel more stuffed than if I only had one.
See? Why couldn't you have thought of these things instead?
Oh, right. So sorry but I forgot. You do not have the equipment for it. Tsk, tsk. Too bad. I would have lent you half of mine but I need the whole of it for my next blog entry. Sorry kiddo, no deal.
Or perhaps... hey, would you like to copy this entry?
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