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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: Scot on August 15, 2008, 09:14:07 AM
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or am i just looking for similarities?
http://www.yankeepotroast.org/archives/2008/08/autographed_ite.html (http://www.yankeepotroast.org/archives/2008/08/autographed_ite.html)
and i know, i know - different folks get to the same place by different roads.
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Unless this guy knows S&W personally and has permission, I call stolen. And he's from New Jersey, too.
Although I did laugh at some of the examples.
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Theft or zeitgeist? I am not sure. But given the geographic proximity that Buffcoat points out, I am thinking the former.
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different folks get to the same place by different roads.
Pretty sure that's what's happening here. Y'all are paranoid.
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http://www.slate.com/id/2196810/
Can't truss it.
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Seems like a rip off to me.
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Oh my god! Not only is it a blatant rip off but the article's title, which is almost as long as the article itself, is an incredibly clunky explanation of the joke. It's like those movie title that are translated into Chinese.
"Autographed Items in Which the Item Is Precious and the Signer Is Famous but the Incongruity of Their Combination Diminishes Their Value"
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Pilfered, there's no doubt.
to add some insult to injury, these fuckers GOT A BOOK OUT.
http://www.underratedbook.com/ (http://www.underratedbook.com/)
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Is this really theft of intellectual property? Or is it ok to tell a joke that you heard someplace else?
I guess on second thought, this is stealing someone else's material, right?
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Oh my god! Not only is it a blatant rip off but the article's title, which is almost as long as the article itself, is an incredibly clunky explanation of the joke. It's like those movie title that are translated into Chinese.
McSweeney's is especially guilty of the explanatory title. And considering YPR is sort of a low-grade McSweeney's, it makes sense.
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Pilfered, there's no doubt.
to add some insult to injury, these fuckers GOT A BOOK OUT.
http://www.underratedbook.com/ (http://www.underratedbook.com/)
Wow, they're like Bizarro Chunklet. I gave up when I saw the second thing on their list was "Small Wonder". (Even if Mr. Show's on that same list.)
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I call rip-off! Though they could've gotten the idea from Step Brothers, in which Will Ferrell has a katana sword that is signed by Randy Jackson from American Idol. However! ...
Unlike the White Album signed by Peter Benchley (valuable item, valuable signature), the katana sword is fairly worthless, and was simply what the character had on him when happening upon Randy Jackson. So, given further consideration, it would seem this guy did rip-off Scharpling and Wurster. He and his colleagues should be knocked unconcious and placed in Spike's dungeon.
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in one of the stores in Cooperstown, they had a cantaloupe signed by Pedro Martinez (I think) and a piece of cactus signed by somebody else.
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I remember reading a children's book in the early 80s where the main character had players from the New York Jets sign a Mets hat (or something to that effect). Of course, that's just trading sports, so you don't really get the same effect.
(I just did some Googling, and I think the book is Baseball Fever, by Johanna Hurwitz. But I'm not 100 percnt on that.)
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I'm going to buy The Underrated Book and get it signed by Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster.
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Steal that book, JonfromMaplewood.
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Back in like 1999, I did actually have Dave Eggers sign a Reader's Digest Country-Music Compilation CD. I thought I was so fuckin' clever.
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My friend had Todd Barry, David Cross, Eugene Mirman and Kristen Schaal sign his copy of American Tabloid (by James Ellroy). Todd promptly crossed over "James Ellroy" and wrote in his own name. Cross crossed over the dedication, "to Nat Sobel", adding, "fuck Nat Sobel, that guy's a dick".
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Werner Herzog autographed baseball:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3084/2768640891_70780bdd4f.jpg?v=0)
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Werner Herzog autographed baseball:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3084/2768640891_70780bdd4f.jpg?v=0)
Did the guy confuse him with Whitey?
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Werner Herzog autographed baseball:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3084/2768640891_70780bdd4f.jpg?v=0)
Did the guy confuse him with Whitey?
Haw haw!
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Addendum:
(http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/9885/100ellroy1mg6.jpg) (http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/1258/100ellroy2xw8.jpg)