And who among the Sheeple-Gullibles thought the boys in charge had closed up their Potter Goldmine, thrown away the keys and gone home? Those business shrewdies at the black heart of Harry Potter for which Rowling is but the front? Bloomsbury, Schola...
"I cleaned out the loft this morning with the wife. Dirty, dusty, full of cobwebs, but she's good to the kids" Tommy Cooper (1921-1984) "I saw six men punching and kicking my mother in law, my neighbour said "Aren't you going to help"? No I said, six should be enough". Les Dawson (1931-1993) "I have the body of an eighteen year old; I keep it in the freezer". Spike Milligan (1918-20...
Harvard has made headlines this week with the revelation that over 125 of its students are under investigation for allegedly collaborating on a take-home final in a civics class. Let's look at some other notable cases involving plagiarism. c. 100 A.D.: Citing similarities between the two main characters, including sinlessness and virgin birth, authors of the Bhagavad Gita claim that popular be...
I've ritten so many articles over the years laying bare and polemicising against the errors and idiocies of other people. This time, I am writhing an article spreading myself bare [Eh? Ed.] and pomelicising against the errors and idiocies of myslef. If you give it, you have to take it. Like a man. Or not. If you demand high standards of others, you have to come down with a heavy hand, whip or pref...
HARFOLD, Vermont--Harfold Academy has run into their first case of academic dishonesty--this on the first day of school! Lauren Bolton, daughter of 9/11 Commission member Samuel Bolton, allegedly submitted a summer reading position paper containin...
Justin Thyme, founder and lead singer of the rap band "Beetroot To Me" is in deep water with J.K.Rowling after the release of his latest song "Rake N' Vac" from his album "Plagiarhythm". Rowling's followers of course do not believe in plagiarism but...
World famous director Steven Spielberg and Universal Studios have been served with a multi million dollar lawsuit by an unemployed Los Angeles labourer. The 50 page suit, filed today in Los Angeles County Court, claims that Speilberg breached the copyright of Angelino Manassa following a car crash in Los Angeles in 1981. The papers, lodged by lawyer Barnabus E. Wilstein, continue : "On Ma...
The sudden resignation of Karl Theodore Zu Guttenberg, Germany's Defence Minister and the country's most popular politician has sent shock waves around the world. Guttenberg was accused of plagiarising large tracts of text and stealing ideas fro...
Reports coming out of the Far East would suggest that CCTV (China Central TV) is regularly using footage from Western films and TV shows without paying any royalties. Back in 2004, the then European Trade Commissioner, Peter Mandelson, made the sa...
London UK - A living relative of Henry Smyth, a metaphysical alchemist, who occupied the house next to Sir Isaac Newton's home on Cameron Lane claims his ancestors discovered gravity. The distant relative has a journal page written by his forbear dat...
This week, Usher was accused of lifting some of the lyrics of his hit single "O.M.G" from none other than Homer Simpson. To many, there is no doubt that the lyrics of the song Christmas in December" sung by Homer Simpson back in 2003, are almost iden...
Private Eye got onto him first. That's how I got to know about it as one of their freelances. In fact, he contacted them from Heathrow airport. He was angry they told me and to take care. But he had a story. He was none other than J.K.Rowling's secret boyfriend from many years back. I imagined he would be weedy, bookish, a nerd. He was the guy she never talked about and only mention...
Having dropped out of his most recent tournament, Tiger Woods accidentally came across a hockey game in his living room while flipping through the channels (He thought it may have been a new form of 'team golf' in Europe). After a few minutes of d...
In a week which has seen the thorny issue of plagiarism take over the headlines at the expense of that good old staple called infidelity, we've just heard from Graceland that the late King of rock n roll, Elvis Presley has instructed his legal team t...
Gary Potter waved his wand and suddenly he was in Hagworts, an old school building which looked suspiciously like another. He had caught the train earlier at Platform 7 and 1/2, which was very close to another, very similar platform. When Gary Potter had arrived his friends, the rather cute girl and the ginger one, were waiting for him. The ginger one was extremely agitated. "Gary, the shit's h...
Local internet writing sensation Dickie Charles Rattlejavelin, who has topped countless internet comedy writers sites was today accused of fraud, by prominent academic Milton J Scratchnut III of Ivy League college Harvard. Rattlejavelin, whose pen...
Famous German Mime, Pierre Waters, has been accused by the Academy of Mimes of stealing his routines from "Bunny Rabbit" on the old Captain Kangaroo Show which was on CBS like forever. "We have carefully watched the filmed performances of Waters a...
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