[Mad Dawg]

When you first made the statement you gave no indication that it was not yours -- no quote marks, nothing of the kind. Some posts later, after challenges, you attributed it to either Mencken or Bierce, of whom you now say "The author of that quote was counted among the most learned people of his time and was credited with encyclopedic [for his times] knowledge." So I'll compromise and offer "briefly maintained plagiarism"

"THE author"? Both were pretty cool guys.

[GSlob]

In your "plagiarism" message # 28 you quoted "because to laugh is human" - which was properly attribited by me to Rabelais, and thus not plagiarized in any way, form or fashion. More, my reply to your # 28 was dealing with that very quote and its author. Thus the charge can not stand. When you are dealing with the previous quote, then, as it was done from memory, I could not have properly used quotation marks on the imprecise text; more, I attributed the text as not mine immediately afterwards and without prodding. Thus it does not qualify as the plagiarism either.

[dangus]

Ambrose Bierce.... hmm...

A cuckold with two sons... one died of alcoholism, the other was shot in an ill-considered duel. He, himself, disappeared while touring Mexico.

That's someone to take spiritual wisdom from /s

Mencken... social Darwinist and radical leftist...

But then something happened: the bitter nihilist scorned Arkansas as a state of Booboisie. (Note the Marxism.) The state responded by praying for his soul in 1931: ""The Holy Spirit informed and inspired me," Mencken said. "Like all other infidels, I am superstitious and always follow hunches: this one seemed to be a superb one.""

With God's grace may the path you choose be far closer to Mencken, GSlob...