does this joke seem familiar to anyone else?

[Scot]

or am i just looking for similarities?

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.

[buffcoat]

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.

[JonFromMaplewood]

Theft or zeitgeist?  I am not sure.  But given the geographic proximity that Buffcoat points out, I am thinking the former.

[Days of Se7en]

different folks get to the same place by different roads.

Pretty sure that's what's happening here.  Y'all are paranoid.

[buffcoat]

http://www.slate.com/id/2196810/

Can't truss it.

[John Junk 2.0]

Seems like a rip off to me.

[Jason]

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"

[KickTheBobo]

Pilfered, there's no doubt.

to add some insult to injury, these fuckers GOT A BOOK OUT.

http://www.underratedbook.com/

[Fido]

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?

[mokin]

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.

[Stupornaut]

Pilfered, there's no doubt.

to add some insult to injury, these fuckers GOT A BOOK OUT.

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.)

[Steve in North Hollywood]

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.

[Andy]

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.

[namethebats]

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.)

[JonFromMaplewood]

I'm going to buy The Underrated Book and get it signed by Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster.