RE: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Nweek 42 BALLOT

["Craig" <ragnarok@xxxxxxxxx>]

>> >>I submit a quote prop:
>> >>
>> >>{{
>> >>__Dissecting frogs__
>> >>
>> >>On Friday 06 June 2003 09:20 pm, Baron von Skippy wrote:
>> >> > "Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog; it's never pleasant and
>>the
>> >> > frog invariably dies."-
>> >>}}
>> >
>> >-Looks like, if nothing else, I will be remembered for spouting other
>> >people's humor into this game. I can't decide if this is a thing to
avoid
>> >or
>> >strive for.-
>>
>>I dunno.  I try to be original, but I don't exactly build a repertoire.
>>The only one I think of as a personal trademark is, "Laziness is the
>>illegitimate father of necessity."
>>
>>						Glotmorf
>>
>-It sort of feels like theft to be given points for being quoted when I
>quote someone else. I'd say that, by convention, we should probably not
>quote anything sent out in quotes. Or, if you must do so, at least find out
>who first said it and what exactly they said, and cite them too.-

Yeah, come on, you guys... the copyright holder has the right of
attribution. In other words, if whoever wrote it was alive (or not yet born)
75 years ago, it is theoretically not even legal to quote em without citing
the source.

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