SELF-PROTECTION
These folks seem to have covered themselves with several layers of personal-information condoms; the s.b. has been unable to find a way to contact any of the admins about the incredible David Watson, who seems to have an incredibly coincidental bunch of life experiences. We would like to let them know about what a coincidental kind o' guy he is.
(Many thanks to Wender J. Crinklebank and Annie Where-but-here for letting us know, and a valuable prize to anyone who contacts the admins and gets them to remove this genius' posts. So... coincidental.)
Dave - it's not only you. He apparently has signed up for a dating site using OtheUmanity's name. Read the item just above the first photo on the page. NOT funny. He mentions it again later.
Posted by: DeskDiva | June 25, 2007 at 05:55 PM
yes, i've been looking for the specific posts he got that stuff from, but no luck so far. the part about 'booger transfusions' came straight from
here: http://www.weeklynewz.com/Gertrude0070.htm
Posted by: judi | June 25, 2007 at 05:59 PM
OOOOH!! This just makes me HOPPIN' mad. It's bad enough that he's plagiarizing Dave, but when he's changing Dave's material and making it unfunny?!? That's LYNCHING time.
Posted by: DeskDiva | June 25, 2007 at 06:03 PM
What a jerk!!! Also, doesn't the picture used by the commenter "village idiot" (how apropos) look A LOT like OtheU, as seen on the Barry's Bloggers page?
Posted by: Just Ducky | June 25, 2007 at 06:04 PM
Plagiarism is the extra-sincerest form of flattery!
Posted by: CJrun | June 25, 2007 at 06:07 PM
I'm not one for name calling, but this guy's a loser. I don't know how to get contact info for the admins, but I suggest we give this guy as little attention as possible, because in my experience, if we give him attention, we are playing into his hands.
Can't wait for our resident tech geeks to get hold of this. *EG*
Posted by: Noob | June 25, 2007 at 06:07 PM
Kinda, but Village Idiot's avatar is actually Wilford Brimley, the actor.
Judi - I've signed up for a membership there. Can I do anything to help?
Posted by: DeskDiva | June 25, 2007 at 06:10 PM
I can send a "Personal Message" to the admins, though I won't put their names out here.
Posted by: DeskDiva | June 25, 2007 at 06:11 PM
Here's an interesting tidbit. Clear violation of their own rules. If this sort of thing happened on any site I was running, there'd be, at minimum, a purge of posts, and most likely a no-notice permanent ban on the user.
Posted by: Clean Hands | June 25, 2007 at 06:11 PM
DDiva, you're right! Guess when they mentioned OtheU, I lost my head.
Still, the guy's a jerk.
Posted by: Just Ducky | June 25, 2007 at 06:11 PM
P.S. The tuba link was from me, as was the Lady MacBeth 'Is this a tuba I see before me....' comment. What a YOB.
Posted by: CJrun | June 25, 2007 at 06:13 PM
btw - Wender was kind enough to bring this issue to my attention, so I sent it to judi, who promptly sicced (sic) Dave on him.
Wender remembered my 'Tuba or not tuba' Shakespearean gator sonnet, which was purloined by said bumpkin. - Bless you, Wender
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | June 25, 2007 at 06:15 PM
Amen, Wender. You are a gentleman. Truly. No matter what your wife says. ;-)
Posted by: DeskDiva | June 25, 2007 at 06:18 PM
I found their registration information with names and addresses of who owns the domain. And which host they use, if anyone wants to know, email me (click on my name). :)
Posted by: Noob | June 25, 2007 at 06:21 PM
I wender hoon he discovered this (no, seriously - I just couldn't resist).
Posted by: SW | June 25, 2007 at 06:21 PM
*realizes plagerizing Dave can get you into trouble...withdraws book submissions entitled "Punkin's Bunny Secrets" and her porn offering "Starr and the Peter Catchers"*
Posted by: Punkin Poo | June 25, 2007 at 06:22 PM
*Snork & 2 snaps*! @ 'Starr & the Peter Catchers!'
Now THAT's worth swiping.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | June 25, 2007 at 06:24 PM
ummm, annie, nobody sicced dave on anyone. what do you mean?
Posted by: judi | June 25, 2007 at 06:25 PM
noob, if you would email it to me, i'd appreciate it.
Posted by: judi | June 25, 2007 at 06:26 PM
Oops, sorry. In my excitement, I meant cc'ed Dave. Or not? Sorry. I was just excited to see this guy get flamed.
Please don't hurt me officer. I didn't steal anything.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | June 25, 2007 at 06:26 PM
Ms. Where-but-here, you are indeed Foremost in my thoughts at all times, of course, but it was only after accidentally running across Mr. Watson's plagiarism of my own stuff that I went searching this blog for further infractions. Mr. Watson has reprinted half a dozen of my little puff-pieces, which wouldn't bother me much if he didn't actually make them less funny in so doing. He is, in clinical terms possibly too complex for the layperson, a "douchebag." I hope he sticks around The Sound Hole, as I am enjoying shaming him immensely under the pseudonym of The Deplagiarinator.
A sample of my shaming:
Posted by: Wender J. Crinklebank | June 25, 2007 at 06:27 PM
*snork* @ Punkin! Guess I'll have to ditch my plans for the marijuana consumer's guide: "Just Ducky's Book of Bad Bongs."
Posted by: Just Ducky | June 25, 2007 at 06:27 PM
and a simul with judi. Take THAT, super-bad-meany stealer-guys.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | June 25, 2007 at 06:28 PM
Wender, I saw "The Deplagiarinator" on that board, and thought it had to be a Barry bloglit. Good for you!
Posted by: Just Ducky | June 25, 2007 at 06:30 PM
I just sent it to you, Judi. Glad to be of help. I moonlight as a commercial writer and would be livid if my stuff was lifted like that. :)
Posted by: Noob | June 25, 2007 at 06:30 PM
I SMELL LAWSUIT!!!
(Yeah, the avatar of Wilfred Brimley looks like my own personal image ... my kids have been mentioning that fact for years ... even back before he wuz the Oatmeal Guy ...)
(Gonna go to Noob & find out about this ... if copyright laws mean NEthin' @ all, I'm fairly sure that I own the copyright on this name, it bein' my own literary creation and all ...)
Posted by: OtheU(manity) | June 25, 2007 at 06:31 PM
Excellent, Wender!! I wondered why TD sounded familiar!!! I shoulda knowed.
*TWO thumbs up!*
Posted by: DeskDiva | June 25, 2007 at 06:32 PM
O - I'm glad you came by. I was about to email you with this information. :-)
Posted by: DeskDiva | June 25, 2007 at 06:33 PM
Noob livid
Writer with a smile
Hope no one lifts your style
My friend...
Posted by: SW | June 25, 2007 at 06:33 PM
I created an account and sent a private message to the administrator:
"One of the users of your forum, a Mr. "davidwatson" is plagiarizing content from Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Dave Barry's blog. He is copying posts verbatim and claiming them as his own.
http://blogs.herald.com/dave_barrys_blog/2007/06/protection.html#comments
He also registered for a dating service using the alias of one of the frequent commentors of Mr. Barry's blog, and described himself using Mr. Barry's words, and discusses it in this thread: http://acoustictalk.proboards85.com/index.cgi?board=tempttt&action=display&thread=1182561859&page=1#1182565393
It would be much appreciated by both the readers of Mr. Barry's blog and Mr. Barry himself if all plagiarized posts were to be removed and some action taken against the user in question."
Hopefully the administrator is a decent enough person to act on this.
Posted by: AnotherBob | June 25, 2007 at 06:35 PM
Wait, sorry, THIS is my favorite Shaming:
----
My favorite thing about this one, David Watson, is that you add your own Original 3 Words (hey, it's a start) and they actually unfunny the bit down! You thought you had to explain "yourself" by adding "*alternate Mom dialogue* as if "your" audience is a bunch of plagiarizing half-wits that wouldn't catch on, from the Context, why what "you" said was funny. It is indeed very funny, but less so with your added Bonus Words, because good humor ought never be explained or annotated[1].
_________
[1] Unless, of course, it is done so as a footnote and contains the words "plagiarizing douchebag," in which case annotation is HILARIOUS.
Posted by: Wender J. Crinklebank | June 25, 2007 at 06:37 PM
Ducky,
It looks like the "village idiot" guy is posting a pic of Wilford Brimley.
Posted by: pete | June 25, 2007 at 06:37 PM
thanks to wender, i found this very familiar bit... from this source
it's an honor to be plagiarized along with dave of course and the rest of you all, so let me be the first to
*snorf* at david watson!
Posted by: insomniac | June 25, 2007 at 06:38 PM
Posted by: SW | June 25, 2007 at 06:39 PM
Sorry, DD didn't see your post. Didn't mean to plagar, plajer, copy.
Posted by: pete | June 25, 2007 at 06:39 PM
How creepy is that?!
Posted by: Bethie | June 25, 2007 at 06:40 PM
sweep
Posted by: Just Ducky | June 25, 2007 at 06:40 PM
I just tried that, jd.
Posted by: SW | June 25, 2007 at 06:41 PM
Apologies for the random slantiness.
Also, everything I've ever said on this blog has been plagiarized from Strom Thurmond, whose ghost lives in my linen closet. Specifically inside one pointy white sheet.
Posted by: Wender J. Crinklebank | June 25, 2007 at 06:41 PM
sweep...
Posted by: insomniac | June 25, 2007 at 06:41 PM
Heh. I sent this:
The individual who calls himself "david watson" has blatantly plagiarized material from Dave Barry's web site. Here is one of "david watson"'s posts and here is the source material from Dave Barry.
Your own rules stipulate
Emphasis mine.This individual is also making use of one of Dave Barry's Blogposters names (OtheUmanity - see the second comment down on this thread) and compare with the name above the photo in this thread again.
Also compare the "booger transfusions" comment (Reply #8) with this article. Apparently he steals from multiple sources. How many other identities has he appropriated beyond that of OtheUmanity's as well? I am aware of another individual whose material he has also appropriated, but do not know on what threads that material is located.
You can contact Dave Barry or his assistant Judi Smith at daveblog at miamiheralddotcom.
Posted by: DeskDiva | June 25, 2007 at 06:42 PM
Thank you, insom! And congrats on being plagiarized!
pete, thanks. I had a blonde moment; I'm better now. No offense intended, OtheU!!!
Posted by: Just Ducky | June 25, 2007 at 06:43 PM
*in a ridiculous French accent*
I blow my nose at yew, Mr. David Watson.
I fart in your general direction.
Posted by: pete | June 25, 2007 at 06:46 PM
avid snotwad. just sayin.
Posted by: SW | June 25, 2007 at 06:46 PM
WOOHOO!!!!! The threads have been taken down!!!
Posted by: DeskDiva | June 25, 2007 at 06:50 PM
Seriously, fellow bloglits, our duty is clear.
We must hunt this a$$wipe down and teach him the consequences of plagiarism. Oh wait, he could end up in the Senate like Joe Biden.
Posted by: pete | June 25, 2007 at 06:50 PM
Looks like they took him down. The links go to threads that do not exist anymore.
Good job, all.
Posted by: Anonymous CO expat | June 25, 2007 at 06:50 PM
I do believe that Mr. Watson has been outed. And perhaps ousted. HALLELUJAH!!
Posted by: DeskDiva | June 25, 2007 at 06:51 PM
Ew, ew, Mr. Kotter, pete plagiarized Steve Martin....
Posted by: CJrun | June 25, 2007 at 06:51 PM
Wow, a triple simul. I hope no one got hurt.
Posted by: Anonymous CO expat | June 25, 2007 at 06:52 PM
*pouts* I guess my stuff's not worth stealing, even. Well, stinko on him.
Posted by: Clean Hands | June 25, 2007 at 06:52 PM
Hey - so long as pete was in there, I'm JUST fine!!! I haven't simuled in so many days I was starting to forget how GOOD it feels!!! ;-)
Posted by: DeskDiva | June 25, 2007 at 06:52 PM
OOOOOH!!!!!!!!!
TWO TRIPLE SIMULS IN A ROW!!!!!
expat - we're going to HAVE to get to know each other better. You're awfully good at this! *GRINS*
And CH - hope you liked being in the middle. ;-)
Posted by: DeskDiva | June 25, 2007 at 06:54 PM
Steve Martin?
Posted by: pete | June 25, 2007 at 06:55 PM
((((CH)))) Well, maybe it was and we just didn't search it far enough back. *smooch*
Posted by: DeskDiva | June 25, 2007 at 06:55 PM
*snorshack* @ CJ!
Score one for the good guys!
Posted by: Just Ducky | June 25, 2007 at 06:56 PM
Geez. And another where I get pete all to myself? I'm having a GREAT day!!
*smooches pete*
Posted by: DeskDiva | June 25, 2007 at 06:56 PM
Followed by Ducky....well, if that just don't beat all!
Posted by: DeskDiva | June 25, 2007 at 06:56 PM
That's from the "Holy Grail" by Monty Python.
I only steal from the best.
Posted by: pete | June 25, 2007 at 06:56 PM
HEY! I simuled MYSELF!! OK. I'll stop now. Really.
Posted by: DeskDiva | June 25, 2007 at 06:57 PM
They've taken down every thread The Deplagiarinator marked as boosted but Mr. Watson is still an active member and there are more plagiarized pieces. Which is fine by me, as I'm having Much Fun taking the piss out of him.
Posted by: Wender J. Crinklebank | June 25, 2007 at 06:57 PM
OH. I'm sooooooo wooooooozy...... Pete.........
Posted by: DeskDiva | June 25, 2007 at 06:57 PM
The links are no longer working. He is OUT! YAY!
Posted by: Siouxie | June 25, 2007 at 06:58 PM
Hey, Wender! A Diva sandwich! Now THAT's something to write home about! ;-) I'm sure we'll all be searching here for days to come....
Posted by: DeskDiva | June 25, 2007 at 06:58 PM
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWW!!!
There's a movie line I've always luvved, that seems apropos for this moment ...
Stand by for JUSTICE!!! - Curt Henderson
Posted by: OtheU(manity) | June 25, 2007 at 06:58 PM
SIOUXIE!!!! Glad to see you home. Things went well in Carolina, I gather! I'm SOOOOO jealous! Welcome back.
And happy belated birthday (almost) to Meanie, wherever you are!!!
Posted by: DeskDiva | June 25, 2007 at 06:59 PM
*Plagiarizes Bugs Bunny*
"Of course you know, this means war!"
Congrats to all on getting plagiarized and/or getting the @$%@&*^^%$%#$#$&#$%& *pauses for breath* $%#$!%$!@%@$#@^#^@#!$%!%$#'s threads removed.
After all, getting copied is flattering, but humiliating the copier is priceless.
Posted by: The blog reader formerly known as Matt | June 25, 2007 at 06:59 PM
I'll give you thirty minutes to cut that out, DD.
Then I'm going to whisper for help.
Posted by: pete | June 25, 2007 at 06:59 PM
OK. I really am done now. Have to go home which completely sucks now that this place is up and hopping. :-( Boo hoo to me!!!
*prepares to ride off into sunset*
Posted by: DeskDiva | June 25, 2007 at 07:00 PM
pete - Python IS the best! ;-)
Posted by: Siouxie | June 25, 2007 at 07:00 PM
Sorry DD, did you need a break before another simul?
Posted by: The blog reader formerly known as Matt | June 25, 2007 at 07:00 PM
hey guys. my apologies from the community. sorry about this whole mess.
j
Posted by: J from the soundhole | June 25, 2007 at 07:00 PM
DDiva, take it easy; you're gonna give yourself a heart attack! ;-)
How long till the new Dell dawns?
Posted by: Just Ducky | June 25, 2007 at 07:01 PM
Anytime, pete - ANYtime! ;-) I've SOOO missed you guys. Pardon me for getting a little prematurely excited. *snicker* I still don't have a unit at home, though, so I'll have to get posted whenever I can get it.
*passes Mary a new pack of Sharpies*
Posted by: DeskDiva | June 25, 2007 at 07:01 PM
... and ... Just Ducky -- Offense? Where?
(Of course, Geezers will remember whut happened after Curt shouted that line in the post above ... I'm thinkin' this sh!t-fer-brains plagiarizer has had a similar experience ... his @$$ bein' yanked out from under ...)
Posted by: OtheU(manity) | June 25, 2007 at 07:02 PM
You know J - that's downright dandy of you, and much appreciated. It's hard to monitor your folks' material. Thanks so much for taking such thoroughly speedy action!!
You can come play here any day. :-)
*doffs hat*
XMatt - No. Never. *sighs contentedly*
Posted by: DeskDiva | June 25, 2007 at 07:03 PM
Nice work, DD. You know I love you and we'll all miss you tonight.
((((((((((((Diva)))))))))))))
Posted by: pete | June 25, 2007 at 07:03 PM
Thanks DD, it's good to be home!
OtheU - there can only be ONE of you ;-)
Posted by: Siouxie | June 25, 2007 at 07:04 PM
My wife complains that she doesn't have much of a unit at home either. You women are all alike.
Posted by: pete | June 25, 2007 at 07:05 PM
Hey - better something than NOTHING, pete!! Just tell her to upgrade. Oh, wait.... ;-)
Posted by: DeskDiva | June 25, 2007 at 07:07 PM
From approximately 5:37 to approximately 6:51. That didn't take long. Good work blogboys and bloggals.
From now on, I promise (fingers crossed behind my back) to be on my very best behavior, in order to avoid the wrath of the blogpals!
Posted by: casey | June 25, 2007 at 07:08 PM
Ouch!! that smarts!
Posted by: pete | June 25, 2007 at 07:09 PM
Plagiarize copyrighter...
Sir or madam, would you steal my quip
Some take me years to write, others from the hip
Placed with an author, he's a man named Dave
He's a steady blog, he don't want to be a
Plagiarized writer
Plagiarized writer
We're a thousand jokers, give or take a few
But we're honest folk, somewhat unlike you
We can take a story, turn it inside out
You're a hoony yob, we don't want to be a
Plagiarized writer
Plagiarized writer
Posted by: SW | June 25, 2007 at 07:09 PM
um...judi, can I get the valuable prize if no one claims it??? ;-)
Posted by: Siouxie | June 25, 2007 at 07:09 PM
EXCELLENT, SW! Will you let them steal that for the next RBR "tour"?
*rides off into the sunset for real*
See y'all in the morning, Kids!
Posted by: DeskDiva | June 25, 2007 at 07:10 PM
pete, just buy her one, then you can play on the blog more. Not that I've done that or anything.
Posted by: The blog reader formerly known as Matt | June 25, 2007 at 07:10 PM
deskdiva, I'm just a member there but like most members (and mods) had no clue about what was going on with those posts. hopefully things will get taken care of appropriately. :)
Posted by: j from the soundhole | June 25, 2007 at 07:11 PM
*claims valuable prize*
Posted by: DeskDiva | June 25, 2007 at 07:12 PM
OtheU, I loved American Graffiti!
casey, I just remarked on how swiftly this problem was resolved to the girlduckling. The bloglits are awesome.
Good one, SW! Especially working in "hoony."
WELCOME BACK, SIOUXIE!!
Posted by: Just Ducky | June 25, 2007 at 07:13 PM
*zips in*™
*sigh*
LTTG as usual, but the only linky that sittl worked for me when I started reading here was the one in judi's post.
I'll zip up and czech it again.
********
Yes, if you click on These folks it takes you to the site, but on all the other linkys it says 'thread does not exist', so what's up with that?
And didn't this happen once before a while back????
Posted by: Eleanor | June 25, 2007 at 07:13 PM
Ah. Well, I misunderstood, but come play over here anyway! :-) We like to have fun. Can you tell?
*OK - Really really rides off into the sunset this time.*
*blows smooches to all the blogpals over her shoulder. adds j to the list.*
Niters!!
Posted by: DeskDiva | June 25, 2007 at 07:14 PM
*claimed it first*
excellent, Stevie!
Posted by: Siouxie | June 25, 2007 at 07:14 PM
*does the I Got Plagiarized Dance*
Neener!
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | June 25, 2007 at 07:16 PM
um...judi, can I get the valuable prize if no one claims it??? ;-)
Posted by: Siouxie | 07:09 PM on June 25, 2007
------------
So, NO. You didn't claim it first! ;-P
Posted by: DeskDiva | June 25, 2007 at 07:17 PM
*
kicksgently nudges DD out the door andlockscloses it behind her*la la la la
;-)
Posted by: Siouxie | June 25, 2007 at 07:17 PM
Welcome back Souixie. You were real close to where I'm from originally. Traveler's Rest, just about an hour away from Asheville. I only moved away a couple years ago. In fact, my dad worked with the guy (at his regular job) that made the rocking horses for Biltmore Estate .
I'm glad you enjoyed my old stomping grounds. If you haven't been, the Outer Banks and Charleston are also awesome.
Posted by: The blog reader formerly known as Matt | June 25, 2007 at 07:19 PM
Lol at all o'youse. Time for a
drinkbreather.Laterz
Posted by: SW | June 25, 2007 at 07:20 PM
*nudges i two spaces to the left*
Posted by: The blog reader formerly known as Matt | June 25, 2007 at 07:20 PM
*does the I Got Plagiarized Dance*
That's been banned at most high school proms, you know. And for good reason.
Posted by: SW | June 25, 2007 at 07:21 PM
Annie, I must admit I am confused. What have you and Wender done now?
Posted by: Edgar Greenberg | June 25, 2007 at 07:23 PM