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Dinner and a Show (Community)
Dinner and a Show // Community
Nov 9, 2002, 2:59am
The following is a dramatization. Anyone who takes this seriously needs
to get out more:
Goober King: Waiter?
Waiter: Yes, sir? Are you ready to order?
Goober King: Yes, please.
Waiter: What will you be having?
Goober King: I think I'll have your Head on a Platter Special, please.
Waiter: Excellent choice, sir. What sort of Head would you like?
Sirloin? Round Steak? Eep? ENZO?
Goober King: Hmm... Do you have Mountain Myst by any chance?
Waiter: Indeed we do.
Goober King: Excellent! I'll have that then.
Waiter: How would you like your Head done?
Goober King: Well done, please. Preferably charred.
Waiter: ... I see... What side dishes would you like to have?
Goober King: Whaddya got?
Waiter: You can choose between forgery, plagiarism, theft, distrust, or
cole slaw.
Goober King: Hmm... so many choices... I'll take the forgery and plagiarism.
Waiter: Ok then. Let me just take your menu here and I'll be back with
your meal in a few minutes.
Goober King: Thanks!
For those of you who actually bother to read the AW Newsletter every
month, you may have noticed an article in the November installment
concerning the CY Awards. What you may not have noticed is a slight
error at the end of the article, where it says "The CY Awards Executive
Committee".
Now, if you take that article, and put it up next to the article that I
posted in the AWNews section of VR Village
(http://www.spiraline.com/~vrvillagevoice/html/ and click on the AWNews
icon in the middle of the page), you might notice something. They're
disturbingly similar, and there's a reason for that.
When I wrote the article for AWNews, I also submitted it to Mountain
Myst, at the behest of the CY Awards Committee, so that she could post
it in the AW Newsletter and on the CY Awards website. I figured she'd
probably take out the voting results and snip some parts just to make it
shorter. Instead, what I found was an article that was butchered almost
beyond recognition, and absolutely no credit for the article to me
whatsoever.
Now, if she had simply used my article as a base for hers and didn't use
any of my original material, I wouldn't really care. But the fact that
she left almost entire paragraphs intact, copying them WORD FOR WORD,
without so much as a "Goober King contributed to this article" nod
pisses me off to no end!
Conveniently, the Newsletter disclaimer states that "You hereby
authorize Activeworlds, Corp to use and/or authorize others to use all
or part of your Postings in any manner, format, or medium that
Activeworlds, Corp or such other parties see fit." Actually, I'm fine
with that. It's the "Not giving credit where credit is due and making it
look like someone else wrote it" part that I have a severe problem with!
Therefore, I am no longer submitting *any* more material to that mockery
of newsletter "journalism", and this includes my UTN Recommendations.
You can find future UTN Recommendations under the Town of the Month
section on the UTN website (http://utn.cjb.net/utnhome.htm) and you can
continue to find AWNews articles at VR Village until the AWNews site is
back up and running. In the meantime, I suggest you all find alternative
methods for getting your monthly AWI fix, since it seems nothing can be
trusted from that sham of a publication.
And to think, I was just beginning to trust AWI again....
--
Goober King
At least AWI's consistent! :P
robrod at prism.net
Nov 9, 2002, 3:45am
"I suggest you all find alternative methods for getting your monthly AWI
fix, since it seems nothing can be trusted from that sham of a publication."
"she left almost entire paragraphs intact, copying them WORD FOR WORD"
hmmmmm *adds one plus one* };¬]
Nov 9, 2002, 3:54am
Goober King: Excuse me, Waiter?
Waiter: Err, yes, sir?
Goober King: Is it too late to change my order?
Waiter: Not at all, sir.
Goober King: Good. Can you make my Head on a Platter Special a Weebo
instead of a Mountain Myst? I think it goes better with the plagiarism
and forgery than the Mountain Myst does.
Waiter: Certainly. I'll get that order changed right away, sir.
Goober King: Thank you.
Some journalist I am. :P Turns out MM had sent the article to the CY
Committee for approval before posting it on the Newsletter. Naturally,
the Committee said there should be changes and so MM left it up to them
to decide how to change it. Then, Weebo proceeded to email MM the
version of the article you see on the Newsletter now, and MM, assuming
that Weebo and Co. had checked with me first to make sure the changes
were ok, went ahead and added it to the Newsletter.
Guess we all have one more reason to hate the CY Committee now! Yeehaw! :P
[View Quote]Goober King wrote:
> The following is a dramatization. Anyone who takes this seriously needs
> to get out more:
>
> Goober King: Waiter?
> Waiter: Yes, sir? Are you ready to order?
> Goober King: Yes, please.
> Waiter: What will you be having?
> Goober King: I think I'll have your Head on a Platter Special, please.
> Waiter: Excellent choice, sir. What sort of Head would you like?
> Sirloin? Round Steak? Eep? ENZO?
> Goober King: Hmm... Do you have Mountain Myst by any chance?
> Waiter: Indeed we do.
> Goober King: Excellent! I'll have that then.
> Waiter: How would you like your Head done?
> Goober King: Well done, please. Preferably charred.
> Waiter: ... I see... What side dishes would you like to have?
> Goober King: Whaddya got?
> Waiter: You can choose between forgery, plagiarism, theft,
> distrust, or cole slaw.
> Goober King: Hmm... so many choices... I'll take the forgery and
> plagiarism.
> Waiter: Ok then. Let me just take your menu here and I'll be back
> with your meal in a few minutes.
> Goober King: Thanks!
>
> For those of you who actually bother to read the AW Newsletter every
> month, you may have noticed an article in the November installment
> concerning the CY Awards. What you may not have noticed is a slight
> error at the end of the article, where it says "The CY Awards Executive
> Committee".
>
> Now, if you take that article, and put it up next to the article that I
> posted in the AWNews section of VR Village
> (http://www.spiraline.com/~vrvillagevoice/html/ and click on the AWNews
> icon in the middle of the page), you might notice something. They're
> disturbingly similar, and there's a reason for that.
>
> When I wrote the article for AWNews, I also submitted it to Mountain
> Myst, at the behest of the CY Awards Committee, so that she could post
> it in the AW Newsletter and on the CY Awards website. I figured she'd
> probably take out the voting results and snip some parts just to make it
> shorter. Instead, what I found was an article that was butchered almost
> beyond recognition, and absolutely no credit for the article to me
> whatsoever.
>
> Now, if she had simply used my article as a base for hers and didn't use
> any of my original material, I wouldn't really care. But the fact that
> she left almost entire paragraphs intact, copying them WORD FOR WORD,
> without so much as a "Goober King contributed to this article" nod
> pisses me off to no end!
>
> Conveniently, the Newsletter disclaimer states that "You hereby
> authorize Activeworlds, Corp to use and/or authorize others to use all
> or part of your Postings in any manner, format, or medium that
> Activeworlds, Corp or such other parties see fit." Actually, I'm fine
> with that. It's the "Not giving credit where credit is due and making it
> look like someone else wrote it" part that I have a severe problem with!
>
> Therefore, I am no longer submitting *any* more material to that mockery
> of newsletter "journalism", and this includes my UTN Recommendations.
> You can find future UTN Recommendations under the Town of the Month
> section on the UTN website (http://utn.cjb.net/utnhome.htm) and you can
> continue to find AWNews articles at VR Village until the AWNews site is
> back up and running. In the meantime, I suggest you all find alternative
> methods for getting your monthly AWI fix, since it seems nothing can be
> trusted from that sham of a publication.
>
> And to think, I was just beginning to trust AWI again....
>
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--
Goober King
It's just not your year, CY folks...
robrod at prism.net
Nov 9, 2002, 4:58am
%*^%*$^*(&(%^ at the };¬]
:-P
--
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[View Quote]"usul 2" <usul2 at attbi.com> wrote in message
news:3dcca0dc at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> "I suggest you all find alternative methods for getting your monthly AWI
> fix, since it seems nothing can be trusted from that sham of a
publication."
>
> "she left almost entire paragraphs intact, copying them WORD FOR WORD"
>
> hmmmmm *adds one plus one* };¬]
>
>
>
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Nov 9, 2002, 5:01am
*shakes head*
See what ya get when you try to be nice?
*walks off humming a familiar Green Day song*
--
- Syntax -
http://www.swcity.net
http://forum.swcity.net
One may ask the question, what ARE they teaching in school these days?
[View Quote]"Goober King" <gooberking at utn.cjb.net> wrote in message
news:3DCC8F8A.8020109 at utn.cjb.net...
> The following is a dramatization. Anyone who takes this seriously needs
> to get out more:
>
> Goober King: Waiter?
> Waiter: Yes, sir? Are you ready to order?
> Goober King: Yes, please.
> Waiter: What will you be having?
> Goober King: I think I'll have your Head on a Platter Special, please.
> Waiter: Excellent choice, sir. What sort of Head would you like?
> Sirloin? Round Steak? Eep? ENZO?
> Goober King: Hmm... Do you have Mountain Myst by any chance?
> Waiter: Indeed we do.
> Goober King: Excellent! I'll have that then.
> Waiter: How would you like your Head done?
> Goober King: Well done, please. Preferably charred.
> Waiter: ... I see... What side dishes would you like to have?
> Goober King: Whaddya got?
> Waiter: You can choose between forgery, plagiarism, theft, distrust, or
> cole slaw.
> Goober King: Hmm... so many choices... I'll take the forgery and
plagiarism.
> Waiter: Ok then. Let me just take your menu here and I'll be back with
> your meal in a few minutes.
> Goober King: Thanks!
>
> For those of you who actually bother to read the AW Newsletter every
> month, you may have noticed an article in the November installment
> concerning the CY Awards. What you may not have noticed is a slight
> error at the end of the article, where it says "The CY Awards Executive
> Committee".
>
> Now, if you take that article, and put it up next to the article that I
> posted in the AWNews section of VR Village
> (http://www.spiraline.com/~vrvillagevoice/html/ and click on the AWNews
> icon in the middle of the page), you might notice something. They're
> disturbingly similar, and there's a reason for that.
>
> When I wrote the article for AWNews, I also submitted it to Mountain
> Myst, at the behest of the CY Awards Committee, so that she could post
> it in the AW Newsletter and on the CY Awards website. I figured she'd
> probably take out the voting results and snip some parts just to make it
> shorter. Instead, what I found was an article that was butchered almost
> beyond recognition, and absolutely no credit for the article to me
> whatsoever.
>
> Now, if she had simply used my article as a base for hers and didn't use
> any of my original material, I wouldn't really care. But the fact that
> she left almost entire paragraphs intact, copying them WORD FOR WORD,
> without so much as a "Goober King contributed to this article" nod
> pisses me off to no end!
>
> Conveniently, the Newsletter disclaimer states that "You hereby
> authorize Activeworlds, Corp to use and/or authorize others to use all
> or part of your Postings in any manner, format, or medium that
> Activeworlds, Corp or such other parties see fit." Actually, I'm fine
> with that. It's the "Not giving credit where credit is due and making it
> look like someone else wrote it" part that I have a severe problem with!
>
> Therefore, I am no longer submitting *any* more material to that mockery
> of newsletter "journalism", and this includes my UTN Recommendations.
> You can find future UTN Recommendations under the Town of the Month
> section on the UTN website (http://utn.cjb.net/utnhome.htm) and you can
> continue to find AWNews articles at VR Village until the AWNews site is
> back up and running. In the meantime, I suggest you all find alternative
> methods for getting your monthly AWI fix, since it seems nothing can be
> trusted from that sham of a publication.
>
> And to think, I was just beginning to trust AWI again....
>
> --
> Goober King
> At least AWI's consistent! :P
> robrod at prism.net
>
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Nov 9, 2002, 7:25am
*sigh* I'm not surprised, really...
[View Quote]"Goober King" <gooberking at utn.cjb.net> wrote in message
news:3DCC8F8A.8020109 at utn.cjb.net...
> The following is a dramatization. Anyone who takes this seriously needs
> to get out more:
>
> Goober King: Waiter?
> Waiter: Yes, sir? Are you ready to order?
> Goober King: Yes, please.
> Waiter: What will you be having?
> Goober King: I think I'll have your Head on a Platter Special, please.
> Waiter: Excellent choice, sir. What sort of Head would you like?
> Sirloin? Round Steak? Eep? ENZO?
> Goober King: Hmm... Do you have Mountain Myst by any chance?
> Waiter: Indeed we do.
> Goober King: Excellent! I'll have that then.
> Waiter: How would you like your Head done?
> Goober King: Well done, please. Preferably charred.
> Waiter: ... I see... What side dishes would you like to have?
> Goober King: Whaddya got?
> Waiter: You can choose between forgery, plagiarism, theft, distrust, or
> cole slaw.
> Goober King: Hmm... so many choices... I'll take the forgery and
plagiarism.
> Waiter: Ok then. Let me just take your menu here and I'll be back with
> your meal in a few minutes.
> Goober King: Thanks!
>
> For those of you who actually bother to read the AW Newsletter every
> month, you may have noticed an article in the November installment
> concerning the CY Awards. What you may not have noticed is a slight
> error at the end of the article, where it says "The CY Awards Executive
> Committee".
>
> Now, if you take that article, and put it up next to the article that I
> posted in the AWNews section of VR Village
> (http://www.spiraline.com/~vrvillagevoice/html/ and click on the AWNews
> icon in the middle of the page), you might notice something. They're
> disturbingly similar, and there's a reason for that.
>
> When I wrote the article for AWNews, I also submitted it to Mountain
> Myst, at the behest of the CY Awards Committee, so that she could post
> it in the AW Newsletter and on the CY Awards website. I figured she'd
> probably take out the voting results and snip some parts just to make it
> shorter. Instead, what I found was an article that was butchered almost
> beyond recognition, and absolutely no credit for the article to me
> whatsoever.
>
> Now, if she had simply used my article as a base for hers and didn't use
> any of my original material, I wouldn't really care. But the fact that
> she left almost entire paragraphs intact, copying them WORD FOR WORD,
> without so much as a "Goober King contributed to this article" nod
> pisses me off to no end!
>
> Conveniently, the Newsletter disclaimer states that "You hereby
> authorize Activeworlds, Corp to use and/or authorize others to use all
> or part of your Postings in any manner, format, or medium that
> Activeworlds, Corp or such other parties see fit." Actually, I'm fine
> with that. It's the "Not giving credit where credit is due and making it
> look like someone else wrote it" part that I have a severe problem with!
>
> Therefore, I am no longer submitting *any* more material to that mockery
> of newsletter "journalism", and this includes my UTN Recommendations.
> You can find future UTN Recommendations under the Town of the Month
> section on the UTN website (http://utn.cjb.net/utnhome.htm) and you can
> continue to find AWNews articles at VR Village until the AWNews site is
> back up and running. In the meantime, I suggest you all find alternative
> methods for getting your monthly AWI fix, since it seems nothing can be
> trusted from that sham of a publication.
>
> And to think, I was just beginning to trust AWI again....
>
> --
> Goober King
> At least AWI's consistent! :P
> robrod at prism.net
>
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Nov 9, 2002, 7:55am
*LOL* Don't ya just hate it when you make mistakes like that. That accuse people but then you find out your wrong.
- Mark
PS: Ill have sausage and egg instead.
[View Quote]"Goober King" <gooberking at utn.cjb.net> wrote in message news:3DCC9C7A.80002 at utn.cjb.net...
> Goober King: Excuse me, Waiter?
> Waiter: Err, yes, sir?
> Goober King: Is it too late to change my order?
> Waiter: Not at all, sir.
> Goober King: Good. Can you make my Head on a Platter Special a Weebo
> instead of a Mountain Myst? I think it goes better with the plagiarism
> and forgery than the Mountain Myst does.
> Waiter: Certainly. I'll get that order changed right away, sir.
> Goober King: Thank you.
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Nov 9, 2002, 5:43pm
It was an honest mistake...
SW Chris
[View Quote]"Goober King" <gooberking at utn.cjb.net> wrote in message
news:3DCC9C7A.80002 at utn.cjb.net...
> Goober King: Excuse me, Waiter?
> Waiter: Err, yes, sir?
> Goober King: Is it too late to change my order?
> Waiter: Not at all, sir.
> Goober King: Good. Can you make my Head on a Platter Special a Weebo
> instead of a Mountain Myst? I think it goes better with the plagiarism
> and forgery than the Mountain Myst does.
> Waiter: Certainly. I'll get that order changed right away, sir.
> Goober King: Thank you.
>
> Some journalist I am. :P Turns out MM had sent the article to the CY
> Committee for approval before posting it on the Newsletter. Naturally,
> the Committee said there should be changes and so MM left it up to them
> to decide how to change it. Then, Weebo proceeded to email MM the
> version of the article you see on the Newsletter now, and MM, assuming
> that Weebo and Co. had checked with me first to make sure the changes
> were ok, went ahead and added it to the Newsletter.
>
> Guess we all have one more reason to hate the CY Committee now! Yeehaw! :P
>
> Goober King wrote:
please.
>
>
> --
> Goober King
> It's just not your year, CY folks...
> robrod at prism.net
>
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Nov 11, 2002, 4:12pm
Perhaps I may suggest the Foot of Goober King with Goober saliva sauce
wrapped in parchment with scrawl, a side of lip would go nicely with that...
also the chef has prepared a very trite chagrin salad with nuts - always
appropriate
E
"at least it's fresh"
[View Quote]"Goober King" <gooberking at utn.cjb.net> wrote in message
news:3DCC9C7A.80002 at utn.cjb.net...
> Goober King: Excuse me, Waiter?
> Waiter: Err, yes, sir?
> Goober King: Is it too late to change my order?
> Waiter: Not at all, sir.
> Goober King: Good. Can you make my Head on a Platter Special a Weebo
> instead of a Mountain Myst? I think it goes better with the plagiarism
> and forgery than the Mountain Myst does.
> Waiter: Certainly. I'll get that order changed right away, sir.
> Goober King: Thank you.
>
> Some journalist I am. :P Turns out MM had sent the article to the CY
> Committee for approval before posting it on the Newsletter. Naturally,
> the Committee said there should be changes and so MM left it up to them
> to decide how to change it. Then, Weebo proceeded to email MM the
> version of the article you see on the Newsletter now, and MM, assuming
> that Weebo and Co. had checked with me first to make sure the changes
> were ok, went ahead and added it to the Newsletter.
>
> Guess we all have one more reason to hate the CY Committee now! Yeehaw! :P
>
> Goober King wrote:
please.
>
>
> --
> Goober King
> It's just not your year, CY folks...
> robrod at prism.net
>
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Nov 11, 2002, 5:54pm
In other words, GK... Get the facts FIRST!!! *G* *hug*
[View Quote]e n z o <enzo at activeworlds.com> wrote in message
news:3dcff314 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Perhaps I may suggest the Foot of Goober King with Goober saliva sauce
> wrapped in parchment with scrawl, a side of lip would go nicely with
that...
> also the chef has prepared a very trite chagrin salad with nuts - always
> appropriate
>
> E
>
> "at least it's fresh"
>
>
> "Goober King" <gooberking at utn.cjb.net> wrote in message
> news:3DCC9C7A.80002 at utn.cjb.net...
:P
needs
> please.
like?
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