Plagiarise. Let no one else's work evade your eyes

The Economist ^ | Mar 14th 2002

[dagny taggert]

No, we're recovering from endangered status. Really.

[AmishDude]

Good to know you're out there. BTW, I was just quoting the song. You wouldn't happen to be a graph theorist, too, would you?

[dagny taggert]

Good God, no. Far too applied for me. If there are applications to anything I do, I don't want to know about it. :-)

BTW I grew up in PA Dutch country. Knew some Amish dudes.

[AmishDude]

Cool about dutch country. My profile gives the info, I grew up in Lancaster. But, you know, they call ME pure. My stuff is not applied enough. It's very frustrating. We're mathematicians. Let the lesser minds do the applications. :)

[boris]

In high school, I had a series of complete idiots teaching English. One annoyed me so greatly that, for one of his writing assignments, I simply plagiarized Ray Bradbury's version of The Fall of the House of Usher. I wanted to be caught but was pretty confident he was so dumb that I was safe.

I got an "A". Mr. Bradbury would be proud. At no time did the moron think: "How did a 16-year-old learn to write so well?"

--Boris