Comments on: Thomas Sullivan: “HELP! HELP! THEY’VE STOLEN MY BOOK AND ALL THE WORDS AND EVERYTHING!” http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2008/12/16/thomas-sullivan-%e2%80%9chelp-help-they%e2%80%99ve-stolen-my-book-and-all-the-words-and-everything%e2%80%9d/ Just another Storytellers Unplugged weblog Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:18:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Thomas Sullivan http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2008/12/16/thomas-sullivan-%e2%80%9chelp-help-they%e2%80%99ve-stolen-my-book-and-all-the-words-and-everything%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-518 Thomas Sullivan Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:18:14 +0000 http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/?p=2050#comment-518 Plus you could teach Readin', Ritin' and 'Rithmetic on the side like they were your middle name until the books came in... -- Sully Plus you could teach Readin’, Ritin’ and ‘Rithmetic on the side like they were your middle name until the books came in…

– Sully

]]> By: Carl Moore http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2008/12/16/thomas-sullivan-%e2%80%9chelp-help-they%e2%80%99ve-stolen-my-book-and-all-the-words-and-everything%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-512 Carl Moore Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:14:06 +0000 http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/?p=2050#comment-512 J.R.R. Tolkien? George R.R. Martin? Since I am aspiring to authorship in a time of Google, I have decided, since my middle initial is R, that I should perhaps go with Carl R.R.R. Moore. You'd hit it on the first search every time... J.R.R. Tolkien? George R.R. Martin? Since I am aspiring to authorship in a time of Google, I have decided, since my middle initial is R, that I should perhaps go with Carl R.R.R. Moore. You’d hit it on the first search every time…

]]> By: Thomas Sullivan http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2008/12/16/thomas-sullivan-%e2%80%9chelp-help-they%e2%80%99ve-stolen-my-book-and-all-the-words-and-everything%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-520 Thomas Sullivan Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:22:51 +0000 http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/?p=2050#comment-520 Reminds me of the joke about the panhandler who knocks on the door of an inn named St. George and the Dragon. Woman answers and blisters him with the bum's rush and slams the door. The trap knocks again, and when she answers, says, "May I speak to St. George?" Back on point, you sure this lady isn't bona fide? When I lived in LA I saw more than a few firebreather's who might qualify as dragons of one sort or another. -- Sully Reminds me of the joke about the panhandler who knocks on the door of an inn named St. George and the Dragon. Woman answers and blisters him with the bum’s rush and slams the door. The trap knocks again, and when she answers, says, “May I speak to St. George?” Back on point, you sure this lady isn’t bona fide? When I lived in LA I saw more than a few firebreather’s who might qualify as dragons of one sort or another.

– Sully

]]> By: Janet Berliner http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2008/12/16/thomas-sullivan-%e2%80%9chelp-help-they%e2%80%99ve-stolen-my-book-and-all-the-words-and-everything%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-519 Janet Berliner Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:20:29 +0000 http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/?p=2050#comment-519 There's a woman in L.A. who insists that she is the dragon in RITE OF THE DRAGON. You are an original, Sullyman. --J. There’s a woman in L.A. who insists that she is the dragon in RITE OF THE DRAGON.

You are an original, Sullyman.

–J.

]]> By: Thomas Sullivan http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2008/12/16/thomas-sullivan-%e2%80%9chelp-help-they%e2%80%99ve-stolen-my-book-and-all-the-words-and-everything%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-517 Thomas Sullivan Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:08:19 +0000 http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/?p=2050#comment-517 Footnote: am getting a lot of e-mail asking whose picture is in the Christmas ornament on the Grinch photo in my newsletter. (Man, you readers have sharp eyes...) It's none other than the evil Dr. Foto hisself. Folk singer Mark Manrique of Lansing, MI, is the one who "doctors" those photos and send them -- I never know what to expect. If anyone would like to see them, just e-mail me at mn333mn@earthlink.net and I'll put you on the free mailing list for the newsletters with photos. They are also on my website under News & Articles, though my webmaster -- the astounding Cap'n Ed Picard -- lives in California and owing to the time zone differences probably won't be putting up the latest newsletter until later today. And finally, thanks to Susana from Tennessee who was the first sharp-eyed reader to email about the tiny Christmas ornament photo. -- Sully Footnote: am getting a lot of e-mail asking whose picture is in the Christmas ornament on the Grinch photo in my newsletter. (Man, you readers have sharp eyes…) It’s none other than the evil Dr. Foto hisself. Folk singer Mark Manrique of Lansing, MI, is the one who “doctors” those photos and send them — I never know what to expect. If anyone would like to see them, just e-mail me at mn333mn@earthlink.net and I’ll put you on the free mailing list for the newsletters with photos. They are also on my website under News & Articles, though my webmaster — the astounding Cap’n Ed Picard — lives in California and owing to the time zone differences probably won’t be putting up the latest newsletter until later today. And finally, thanks to Susana from Tennessee who was the first sharp-eyed reader to email about the tiny Christmas ornament photo.

– Sully

]]> By: Thomas Sullivan http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2008/12/16/thomas-sullivan-%e2%80%9chelp-help-they%e2%80%99ve-stolen-my-book-and-all-the-words-and-everything%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-516 Thomas Sullivan Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:58:48 +0000 http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/?p=2050#comment-516 Your response posts are always so good that you give the readers 2-for-1 on the subject. Thanks, Amalgam, for the interesting stuff and the kind sentiments! -- Sully Your response posts are always so good that you give the readers 2-for-1 on the subject. Thanks, Amalgam, for the interesting stuff and the kind sentiments!

– Sully

]]> By: Robert C. Jones http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2008/12/16/thomas-sullivan-%e2%80%9chelp-help-they%e2%80%99ve-stolen-my-book-and-all-the-words-and-everything%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-513 Robert C. Jones Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:56:27 +0000 http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/?p=2050#comment-513 Your idea of degrees of plagiarism is a sound one. Like rape and murder, so many things could be viewed as varying by degrees - and many should. Not all things are concrete. If they were, with a good set of laws, we would not need courts. When laws don't spell out degrees in sufficient detail, ideally, the courts are there to interpret the law and consider all circumstances before reaching well-based conclusions. Degrees of plagiarism remind me of the person who plagiarized a George Kaufman play. He tried to get GK to drop charges by stating that it was being performed in but a small theater. GK replied that,in view of that fact, he would have him put in a small jail cell. The monkeys and typewriters "semiparable" actually visits reality occasionally, especially in the reality mediated by the quantum mechanical world that we enjoy today. One of my newspaper columns of yesteryear quickly made its way into my circular file after I read a piece that was almost identical to it. What was especially frustrating was the fact that the piece had been written more than a century before. That was a true case of anticipatory plagiarism if there ever was one. Luckily, I caught it before submitting my column. While doing research for columns, it was not a rarity to find things written by different persons about the same subjects that were VERY similar. I once found two books, side by side on a library shelf, written by different persons, on the same subject, a decade apart, that were identical except perhaps for font and cover color. Thank you again for another writer's feast including a spoonful of the Sully soul, an overflowing scoop of the Sully wisdom, a warm slice of the Sully style, and a dessert cup of the Sully wit. It's rare that one reads things that, at once, interests, informs, entertains and leaves a reader with triggered thoughts worthy of revisitations. Amalgam Your idea of degrees of plagiarism is a sound one. Like rape and murder, so many things could be viewed as varying by degrees – and many should. Not all things are concrete. If they were, with a good set of laws, we would not need courts. When laws don’t spell out degrees in sufficient detail, ideally, the courts are there to interpret the law and consider all circumstances before reaching well-based conclusions.

Degrees of plagiarism remind me of the person who plagiarized a George Kaufman play. He tried to get GK to drop charges by stating that it was being performed in but a small theater. GK replied that,in view of that fact, he would have him put in a small jail cell.

The monkeys and typewriters “semiparable” actually visits reality occasionally, especially in the reality mediated by the quantum mechanical world that we enjoy today. One of my newspaper columns of yesteryear quickly made its way into my circular file after I read a piece that was almost identical to it. What was especially frustrating was the fact that the piece had been written more than a century before. That was a true case of anticipatory plagiarism if there ever was one. Luckily, I caught it before submitting my column.

While doing research for columns, it was not a rarity to find things written by different persons about the same subjects that were VERY similar. I once found two books, side by side on a library shelf, written by different persons, on the same subject, a decade apart, that were identical except perhaps for font and cover color.

Thank you again for another writer’s feast including a spoonful of the Sully soul, an overflowing scoop of the Sully wisdom, a warm slice of the Sully style, and a dessert cup of the Sully wit. It’s rare that one reads things that, at once, interests, informs, entertains and leaves a reader with triggered thoughts worthy of revisitations.

Amalgam

]]> By: Thomas Sullivan http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2008/12/16/thomas-sullivan-%e2%80%9chelp-help-they%e2%80%99ve-stolen-my-book-and-all-the-words-and-everything%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-515 Thomas Sullivan Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:41:34 +0000 http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/?p=2050#comment-515 Call my attorney? Nay, nay. Quote away. My attorney only files on the 13th word, and then only if it's someone else's name. Thanks for zeroing in on that line, Jeani. I almost deep-sixed it for its twists, so I'm glad to know it wasn't too convoluted. Write on... -- Sully Call my attorney? Nay, nay. Quote away. My attorney only files on the 13th word, and then only if it’s someone else’s name. Thanks for zeroing in on that line, Jeani. I almost deep-sixed it for its twists, so I’m glad to know it wasn’t too convoluted. Write on…

– Sully

]]> By: Jeani http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2008/12/16/thomas-sullivan-%e2%80%9chelp-help-they%e2%80%99ve-stolen-my-book-and-all-the-words-and-everything%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-514 Jeani Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:11:42 +0000 http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/?p=2050#comment-514 Sully, what a way to start my day! I'll have to go back for a re-read when I'm fully awake. "I want to spend as little time not being me as possible" more clearly and succinctly expresses a thought I have frequently voiced, so if you ever see those 12 little words strung together in that particular order in one of my articles, don't call your attorney! Jeani Sully, what a way to start my day! I’ll have to go back for a re-read when I’m fully awake. “I want to spend as little time not being me as possible” more clearly and succinctly expresses a thought I have frequently voiced, so if you ever see those 12 little words strung together in that particular order in one of my articles, don’t call your attorney!

Jeani

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