From: Jim Mackey <jmackey@earthlink.net.spam>
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [alt.pizza.delivery.drivers] you can take your 30 cent tip...
Date: 5 Nov 1997 16:44:01 -0700

[Submitter's note:  A WebTV user said something stupid, so Steve made it
his sig, with attribution.  Now the WebTV user is accusing Steve of
plagiarism, and coming across as less than intelligent.]

Subject: Re: you can take your 30 cent tip... 
From: daniels@cdsnet.net (Steve Daniels (Official JBT of a.p))
Newsgroups: alt.pizza.delivery.drivers

dotnet@webtv.net (cyan) wrote:

>daniels@cdsnet.net (Steve Daniels (Official Plagueurizer of a.p.))
>wrote:
> It is now. 
>One of mine.
>It was an idea taken out of context. Maybe<snip>
>  Plaguerize this, asshole.

Do you perhaps mean plagiarize?  If so here is the definition.

plagiarize (pla?je-riz?) verb
plagiarized, plagiarizing, plagiarizes verb, transitive
1.	To use and pass off as one's own (the ideas or writings
of another).
2.	To appropriate for use as one's own passages or ideas
from (another).

verb, intransitive
To put forth as original to oneself the ideas or words of
another.
- pla?giariz?er noun

Now, I have given proper credit for my latest .sig.  Namely, I
have attributed it to you.  I mean, do you think I would wish to
have it attributed to me?

> Why not just make up your own .sigs. and e-addys? I think the answer to
>that is fairly obvious. 

Actually, I do have my own .sigs.  A little cruise through Deja
News could net you a few of them.  Pray tell, what is an e-addy?

> BTW, I only posted via this address this time so you would be damn sure
>who it was that was answering you.

The same simp that gave me my new .sig?  I'm so impressed.
--

Yes, it is true that I cannot respond in a coherent manner on
Usenet.

dotnet@webtv.net - 10/27/97