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Why Wingnuttz Kant Spel
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…’Cuz it’s a trap for folks who want to plagiarize them, according to champion misorthographer Jay Tea over at CheezWhizBang:
I have a few pet peeves. One of them is plagiarism. I have absolutely no patience or tolerance for those who take others’ work as their own. I’ve busted a few people who rip off my stuff here at Wizbang — it’s remarkable how well a “Google trap” can work. I just make sure to make up certain phrases or words or deliberately misspell a couple of words every now and then, then do a Google and a Technorati search on them after a couple of days. It works remarkably well.
Uh huh. Sure. Whatever you say. And isn’t stealing stuff from CheezWhizBang its own punishment?
[h/t Helen]
[Oops! Post author corrected. Sorry, Gavin!]
Gavin adds: Know probelm!
Clif adds: It seems that Jay Tea has had a visit from the Sadly, No! Helpful Tips Department:
Seems that Jay Tea more or less missed the point that misspelling words was, well, pointless. Oh well. Trying to help these people is like trying to snort Cheeto dust through a cocktail straw — even if there were a reason to do it, it won’t work. And, of course, the sole example of plagiarism that Jay Tea proffers is a broken link. And I really do have pictures of me having sex with Brad Pitt and I would so totally show them to you except that they are incredibly valuable and my insurance company doesn’t allow me to take them out of the safe deposit box in that Swiss bank vault to show anybody in case they might get stolen or something.
LittlePig said,
April 2, 2008 at 14:23
uh-huh, yeah, right. And he only looks at kiddie porn to see how effective the monitoring process is.
Jennifer said,
April 2, 2008 at 14:27
In other words, the only people dumb enough to think his stuff is worth stealing are those too dumb to spell.
Sounds about right.
Pere Ubu said,
April 2, 2008 at 14:31
Suuure, he misspells words just to trap plagiarists . Yeppers.
“I MISPEL THS POST DO NOT STEEL IT YOU B*STRDS”
Oooh, and I see he’s all potty-mouthed in that post, too. Symptom of someone who’s angry and hateful and probably should be monitored by the authorities, donchyaknow.
Ann Althouse said,
April 2, 2008 at 14:36
Sometimes I flash an ankle on the internet, then google my name to see if anyone noticed.
Jennifer said,
April 2, 2008 at 14:37
I only have one pet peeve.
Other people.
Check out how morally superior I am to Jay Tea!!!
Kay Coffee said,
April 2, 2008 at 14:41
I is best at bloggins (COPYWRIGHT 2008-INFINITY DO NOT STEEL)
jack fate said,
April 2, 2008 at 14:48
Wait. . . in order to avoid having your work plagiarized, it’s best to appear to be an illiterate moron who hasn’t figured out a spell-checker?
javafascist said,
April 2, 2008 at 14:49
I’m not sure every hour on the hour counts as “sometimes”.
draftdecatur said,
April 2, 2008 at 14:54
What is it with those talk radio people, anyway?
North Chowderville said,
April 2, 2008 at 14:58
!selohssa ,siht gnilaets yrT
Snorghagen said,
April 2, 2008 at 15:03
A Good way to stop all that plaguerism is to write sumthing that is really stupid. That way if you find sumthing else on the Innernet that is really stupid you can know that they stoled the stupid from you.
Scott said,
April 2, 2008 at 15:08
I am not reely stoopit I just partend to be stoopit so i can trik pepul. I am ackchuley reely smrt an you can tel becuz Gorge Bsuh is my heroe.
a different brad said,
April 2, 2008 at 15:10
Honestly, I wish he’d provide links to people who plagiarized him. They have to be some truly outstanding examples of the human species.
Arky The Islahomobamaist said,
April 2, 2008 at 15:16
He also regularly craps in his pants so no one steals them and pisses into the CD drive of his computer to keep the thieves at bay.
Take that criminals!
g said,
April 2, 2008 at 15:40
Arky just made me pee my pants!
javafascist said,
April 2, 2008 at 15:43
Good move g! Now nobody can steals them from you.
pedestrian said,
April 2, 2008 at 15:49
OT, but CNN seems to be in a poor whitey mood lately.
How many years must some people exist
Before they’re allowed to be freeeeeeeeee
Arky The Islahomobamaist said,
April 2, 2008 at 16:08
You’re welcome g. Don’t forget to blow your nose on your sleeves and coat the seats of your car in a thick layer of mayonnaise.
Peanutcat said,
April 2, 2008 at 17:05
Hey, you stupid fuck, if I was gonna steal text from anybody, I’d run a spell-check before posting it anywhere.
Moron.
Dreamweasel said,
April 2, 2008 at 17:30
Leave your lights on all night, too. That’ll show ‘em!
Victor Laslow said,
April 2, 2008 at 17:31
This kinda’ reminds me of Steve Martin saying when someone tries to rob you you should throw up on your money.
Blue Buddha said,
April 2, 2008 at 17:40
Why not? Dogs piss on things to mark their territory.
DUDACKATTACK!! said,
April 2, 2008 at 17:52
Oh no, the “fairly popular Gulf Coast talk radio show” is feeling the wrath of the stateside-deferred warrior!
tb said,
April 2, 2008 at 17:54
“I did that intentionally because I’m smart.” Good one. I’ll have to try that one next time I fuck something up. He doesn’t mention the hidden bonus to lacing your writing with misspellings and made-up words: no one but an extreme retard would even want to plagiarize you. I mean, why steal trash? Hell, if you’re lucky no one will read you at all, cutting the risk of plagiarism almost to zero.
Righteous Bubba said,
April 2, 2008 at 17:59
He’s guaranteeing that he won’t find the smart plagiarizers. Yay!
Arky "I Just Get These Headaches" The Blasphemer said,
April 2, 2008 at 18:41
And like a dog returning to its own vomit, fRightWingerz return to their own folly.
Wow. That’s like, totally Zen.
Snorghagen said,
April 2, 2008 at 19:12
Wingnuts who are really security-conscious put all their posts on their internal mental Internet, which can only be accessed by their own multiple personalities.
Playjerizer said,
April 2, 2008 at 19:42
so, is that kinda like spitting in your own drink so no one will take it? that’s all well and good…..until ya have a head cold. you can NEVER suck that shit up a straw.
i. hate. that.
Zandar said,
April 2, 2008 at 19:44
People are stealing his carefully crafted and cleverly misspelled prose?
ALERT THE INTERNETS!
tb said,
April 2, 2008 at 19:49
OK, that’s a little excessive. For the extremely small number of wingnuts for whom the “write like shit” plagiarism-discouraging strategy is inadequate, there’s always indecipherable code.
Woodrowfan said,
April 2, 2008 at 19:58
mispelled wurds get caght in the internet tubz.
mikey said,
April 2, 2008 at 20:14
Clearly, then, before there was “cut ‘n paste”, plagiarism was not ever a problem…
mikey
Jay B. said,
April 2, 2008 at 20:27
Mobius Strip of Stupidity (a scene):
Wingy #1: A-HA! You fell into the Google Trap! Bwahahahahaha. I purposely misspelled every fifth word to catch you!
Wingy #2: Nuh-huh, I meant to do that, to prove that you’d find it!
Wingy #1: I know! I figured you’d do that, which is why I found the passage so fast!
Wingy #2: Naturally…That’s why…
pedestrian said,
April 2, 2008 at 20:40
Clearly, then, before there was “cut ‘n paste”, plagiarism was not ever a problem…
There has always been cut & paste. Before computers, lazy students and journalists would literally cut out blocks of text from a book or article and glue them onto blank sheets of paper, then submit them. There was no Google back then, but it wasn’t exactly hard to catch. I happen to know that Mr. Tea would stamp, “Mah Intuhlektual Prawpertez” all over his writing in bright red ink. That way he knew it was his, because only he spelled it that way.
liveinvt said,
April 2, 2008 at 21:13
test
my comments don’t post
figured this was a good place for spam
Fozzetti said,
April 2, 2008 at 22:19
He was very polite. Politeness counts for something, doesn’t it?
D. Sidhe said,
April 2, 2008 at 22:27
And isn’t stealing stuff from [...] its own punishment?
God knows that’s always been my philosophy, which is why I offer a Plagiarize All You Like policy with everything I write. Jesus, kids, if you want it, take it. At least that way I don’t look like an idiot alone.
Smut Clyde said,
April 2, 2008 at 22:37
If we realised how cruelty is involved in capturing and domesticating peeves, we would be content to leave them roaming across the savannah, wild and free, with a David Attenborough voice-over.
Hobby-horses are OK. They’re bred for it.
tb said,
April 2, 2008 at 22:47
Actually it’s more of a skitter.
jim said,
April 2, 2008 at 22:55
I don’t use Spell-Check - I have a dictionary already, thanks.
Before Spell-Check, there was this wild concept called “Re-reading What You Write & Correcting Mistakes” … from what I’ve seen, Spell-Check is about on a par with television, in terms of advancing us towards total illiteracy.
But, as every good wingnut knows, grammar is the gateway-drug of crypto-feminist-socialism, lucidity is a Satanic conspiracy ( lucidity — Lucifer … coincidence? NOT! ), & orthography is for pussies.
What, are you going to let that stupid OED push you around?
Spelling like a Special-Ed-dropout is MANLY!
D. Sidhe said,
April 3, 2008 at 0:04
To be fair, there’s a couple bloggers out there who have taught me that spelling and rereading-for-improper-sentence-structure are not strictly necessary for hilarious, elegantly snark-filled prose that leaves me green with envy, rocking gently back and forth, wishing like hell I’d written that.
Mr Tea is not one of them, however.
Doodle Bean said,
April 3, 2008 at 3:22
Wait a minute, Clif!
I have photos of me having sex with Brad Pitt, so you musta stolen them from me! Give them back!!!
Also, I have dyslexia, so it took me a coon’s age to find the typo in that billboard. That must mean something, but I don’t know what.
Pinko Punko said,
April 3, 2008 at 5:10
Wait, what?
Google"Mike" said,
April 3, 2008 at 6:58
Left a comment
“Substitute “Religion” for “radical Islam “, and you have a George Carlin bit, more-or-less . You have a little crediting to do yourself .
Cheers!
- cb “
The credit bureau
Duros Hussein 62 said,
April 3, 2008 at 21:01
This morning, I listen–ed to them online.
O I c wat u did thar.
Quaker in a Basement said,
April 3, 2008 at 22:43
How do you pronounce that? Is it REE pub LICK ian?
Duros Hussein 62 said,
April 3, 2008 at 23:42
I think it’s Republi-shian.
Totally not Jay Tea said,
April 4, 2008 at 13:28
The Germans, who seam to hav a word for most everey sithuation, describe one of the darkur asspects of humen natere: “schadenfreude,” the thrill we get wen we sea somewon elses missfortshun. It’s why we laff when we somewon slip on the eyec, or why “Amurka’s Funnyist Home Videos” is still on the eyr and showwing a endless clip of men getting hit in the groin.
Simba B said,
April 6, 2008 at 3:11
So is that billboard real?