There is an update!
An update on that stealing business from a week or two ago.
I received an e-mail from one 'Epona Rell', and after um-ing and ah-ing about posting it here, I figured HEY, copying and pasting is Quite Apt.
Hmm.
Thoughts?
An update on that stealing business from a week or two ago.
I received an e-mail from one 'Epona Rell', and after um-ing and ah-ing about posting it here, I figured HEY, copying and pasting is Quite Apt.
Subject: I'd like to apologise for my sister.
Dear GBE,
I recently became aware that my little sister was pretty much plagarising her blog off yours. She's only twelve, and as far as I can tell it was because she thought you were rather cool, and wanted to be like you, but didn't know how to go about it. She always tends to feel that she can't do something as well as other people can, and it makes her do rather stupid things (like plagarism).
I tender apologies from both myself and my sister, who wanted to apologise by sending you her pocket money for the next few weeks. However, since only someone insane would give out their details to someone over the internet, we've settled on this:
She will donate it to the charity of your choice. Preferably something with a likelihood of being available in NZ.
Again, apologies.
Epona Rell
Hmm.
Thoughts?
posted by GBE at 7:10 pm
22 Comments:
A twelve-year-old borrowed your post on sexual deprivation?
That's just totally special.
But good on her for donating money to charity.
I second Chesty.
But because I'm actually pretty soft I kinda liked the apology, even if she's a little sneaky (I was a compulsive liar until I hit double figures - and I mean compulsive to the point that my sister has only begun to believe stuff I say in the last few years. Terribly) she's got a decent sister and the charity thing is gold.
Come on! It's a take! Along the lines of 'Doctor, I need to ask a question, not about me, see, it's about this friend of mine, who has this rash...'
Methinks the 12 yo is BUSTED big-time and has got her 'sister' to apologise.
But I'm a cynical old bastard.
I must be too cynical for words - I'm going with non-existent 12 year old and this being a clever ruse to make the [still very youngish] chick who did it to feel better about herself.
However, if I'm wrong [and, let's face it saying that you're going to donate isn't the same as doing it] then I offer myself as the charity.
Hmmm, I wouldn't buy it.
I wouldn't bother with any charity stuff, it's sort of mean to charge someone for behaving like a twit, regardless of age.
I'd just tell her it's fine and if she does it again it will be big trouble.
Sounds like a cop out to me... terrible cynical as well, but one has to be these days, alas.
I don't know of any twelve year old that can write like she did in the entries of hers that were "non-plagarized." I call bullshit, too.
And how would the sister become aware of that? I guard my online journal like a crackhead hides his coke. Homeland Security ain't got nothin' on me when it comes to that shit! Hehe.
Anyway. I'd tell them that it is kind to donate to a charity, but do it because they sincerely want to - not as a form of penance. And to make sure the "kid sister" doesn't steal any of your entries again.
But that's just my two cents! :)
If it's true then it's kind of cute; which means, of course, that you should be donating money to the charity of their choice.
Well, which charity will it be, Wenchypoo?
I read it and thought, aww, isn't that nice.
Then I went over and read the plagiariser's blog. No way in the world she's 12. Unless she's plagiarising every single one of her posts from elsewhere.
I also read a post that made reference to the insurance industry. Was that pilfered from you too? There's no way a 12 year old could come up with all that.
To be honest, my first instinct was that she was writing on behalf of herself rather than her little sister - though I don't have a sister so don't know if older sisters can normally tell if siblings "always tends to feel that she can't do something as well as other people can, and it makes (them)do rather stupid things (like plagarism)".
That said - if I'm wrong, she can't really blame us for thinking it was wrong - her little sister was writing grown up things (and they may both be reading this too!)! Mebbe a donation to SaveBabe.com?! Twelve year olds still like Babe, right?
I looked up some of those non-GBE entries, and they seemed to be original, so I sort of doubt the 12-year old alibi, unless... unless... perhaps (besides being a gallo-Roman horsegoddess) Epona is also a 12-year old plagiarist named Aureya, two 9-year olds named Peggy Lou and Peggy Ann, a fluent French-speaker named Vicky, an artistic piano player named Vanessa, a depressive and suicidal Marcia, and a crayon-drawing 2-year old named Ruthie, and eight or nine other personalities.
Yep, I'm pretty much thinking that we're dealing with Sybil here.
A contribution to a mental health foundation might be in order.
Yeah, I don't buy it either. It's pretty sad actually because now Aureya/Epona will have to start a whole new journal and pretend forevermore to you that she is someone else.
I suggest a charity made out to you.
Thoughts?
Errrr... bollocks.
I wish my posts were cool enough that some one would copy me! lol, ok no not really. How on earth did you find out?? Not that I am contemplating doing a similar thing but with all the hundreds and millions of blogs online, I'm curious to find out how you stumbled across you own posts on some elses blog? Google perhaps? Oh never mind, I had a sniff through your archives... Note to self, if you decided to steal someone else's funnies, don't tell them you like their funnies!
deb
www.paintingwithlight.typepad.com
Ps. I like your funnies
Uh, what a load of bollocks. Not only is she a plaigarist, but she's also not a very good liar.
And the donating to charity bit. Rubbish. I am of the cynical opinion that will be firmly donated back to her own wallet.
Initially I was all warm and fuzzy inside. And then I realised that fuzzy feeling was all the mould growing from the nice warm pile of horseshit piled on there.
If its true its true, and if its not... what can you do about it in the end?
Phishez (couldn't be arsed signing in)
Actually, I found another blog with the so-far assumed "umplagarised" posts on it. Hang on, link around here somewhere.... Will stick it up when I find it. In any case, I figured that anyone who COULD write those entries wouldn't be plagarising, so I nosed around like all get out and made use of one of the universities plagarism detection sites (like turnitin.com), which has access to a whole pile of sites not usually hit by google.
Oh, found the original site: http://outofmymindbackin5.blogspot.com/
And I note the journal has been taken down in its entirety, not just the posts from here, so maybe that says something for the kid.
Personally, I feel that even if the writer really is the thief, and not the big sister, they still apologised, and have admitted they did something wrong, so if so it may actually be a BETTER apology.
I say give em a chance to reddem themselves. Every one screws up now and then.
What a load of shite! She's busted and trying to squirm her way out of it.
mmm...It is hard to tell if people are sincere over the internet. I think it is crap too.
Just write back and say that you would prefer she closed her site down and keep her pocket money.
Epona Rell sounds a bit Kath'n'Kim to me, so I call bullshit on her lying ass.
PS - I was disappointed to see that she took the LJ down. I wanted to see how she had plagiarised, dammit!
It's an apology, I'd just leave it at that.
Chesty, I am a bit suspicious over this 12-year old business, but yet, donating charity at any age, and sexually-deprived or not, is most definitely approved of.
Lucy, I'm not honestly mad about it. I was more shocked that anyone could be bothered with my rubbish than anything else. I just felt a bit bad about the whole thing, especially as she's obviously quite young. I'm just glad it's over with. Now I can move on and start blogging about T & A, yeah!
Groverjones, that was my first thought too. And she doesn't look 12 in her pictures. Oh well. Must move on, I guess. All the best to her in her new blogging endeavours, and I hope her words are all her own from now on.
Nails, but I was going to suggest GBE's beer fund as the charity. I guess I could give her the option of the beer fund or the In Nail's Pocket charity.
Jen, that 'big trouble' bit is way scary - can you stick up for me? The same way I used to cling to the braver kids at school in case any bullies used to pick on me? "Please don't rip off my blog again or else Jen says there'll be BIG TROUBLE, and you don't want to mess with Jen."
Jedimerc, I agree, can't tell who anyone is on this newfangled internet thing. I am actually a 55-year old man with a beard, for example.
Amber, I also wouldn't share my blog with my family, though I'm pretty sure my family don't know how to use the internet other than the amount of spyware on my brother's PC suggesting he knows how to google the word 'porn'.
Don, it is all well and good for me to suggest a charity but there's no guarantee that any money would be donated, so I am just glad to see that the diary has been taken down. And WENCHYPOO? Oh my.
Amanda, it was basically pretty much all me. Everything related to insurance was me. There was a fair bit from my old blog too, with a word changed here and there. Sigh.
Enny, I don't have any sisters either, so maybe that's why my first instinct was the same as yours. Hooray for piggies! I don't know if kids still like Babe. Don't they like that computer-generated stuff now? Like that movie about the dancing penguins?
Saru-San, I guess we can all have as many personalities as we like on the internet, right? Ah, the mentally-unsound beauty of blogging.
Audrey, my lovely, the self-charity idea is mucho marvellous, and I could even consider it my first writing-related payment, but I would feel a wee bit bad. There is plenty of space out there in blogland for her to do her thing with a new identity. Hurray!
Ilse, hurrah! Straight to the point. I like.
Deb, oh, I am so not cool, but thank you for saying I am! My mother thinks I am, too. Two votes for cool!
Ah, Mel, you speak my mind, lovey. That's why I decided to disregard the charity idea altogether. Nice idea in theory, though.
Phishez, exactly. That's why I've replied with a view to putting an end to the whole thing. I think I've had enough.
Anonymous, are you still Phishez, or someone else? And that is some damn fine detective work! It does seem to be all original, doesn't it. Good luck to her in her future blogging adventures, I guess. And you're right - an apology is an apology, even if it comes via her 'sister', real or not.
Steph, you funny thing, it is a bit squirmy, isn't it?
Lulu, ah, that is exactly what I did - great minds think alike, and all that.
Aurelius, erm, most likely none, as her site has been deleted now. I just wanted to post the follow-up to the original blog post. Sniff.
Jacob (aka V to the P to the icky to the ollard), it was nothing special really - it was just copied and pasted straight from here (and therefore CRAP).
Adam, there are no Woah's! or Freakin's! in your comment and this has disturbed me so greatly that I would like to check your temperature and offer you a cup of tea, if I may.
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