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Wow, Farked after 9 clicks.

Procedural Texture: Wow, Farked after 9 clicks.

That might be a record.

Loaded for me.

Academic institution; deserved.

Go Salukis

I believe that's a misuse of the word "irony," but still entertaining!

Waiting for Intelligent_Man to show up...

/gets popcorn

LIKE RAAAAAAIIIIIIIIN... oh wait, that is ironic.

RandomNed: Waiting for Intelligent_Man to show up...

/gets popcornflamethrower

I have several questions: why is SIU's newspaper called The Daily Egyptian? Shouldn't that be the newspaper for Cairo, Illinois? And what is a Saluki, anyway?

whiteylexus: I have several questions: why is SIU's newspaper called The Daily Egyptian? Shouldn't that be the newspaper for Cairo, Illinois? And what is a Saluki, anyway?

I'm an SIU student, so I got a kick out of your reply.

This whole area of southern Illinois is known as "Little Egypt." Cairo is just one tip of the triangle. Carbondale is smack in the middle of it.

A saluki is an ugly-ass Egyptian dog. Like a greyhound, but even uglier.

Props for proper use of Ironic Tag.

Crudbucket: whiteylexus: I have several questions: why is SIU's newspaper called The Daily Egyptian? Shouldn't that be the newspaper for Cairo, Illinois? And what is a Saluki, anyway?

I'm an SIU student, so I got a kick out of your reply.

This whole area of southern Illinois is known as "Little Egypt." Cairo is just one tip of the triangle. Carbondale is smack in the middle of it.

A saluki is an ugly-ass Egyptian dog. Like a greyhound, but even uglier.


Hey! Do not talk about Tut that way!

/alum
/getting a kick

A saluki is an Egyptian dog. Southern Illinois is often referred to as "Little Egypt." Either it was a result of being infested with Gypsies, or because of some biblical thing. I don't remember.

No surprise. SIU was where all the flunkies and meatheads went.

/Go Creighton

kethares: Props for proper use of Ironic Tag.

Unless you got your definition from Wikipedia, not at all.

LarryDan43: Go Salukis

Season Ticket holder.

skankflop: A saluki is an Egyptian dog. Southern Illinois is often referred to as "Little Egypt." Either it was a result of being infested with Gypsies, or because of some biblical thing. I don't remember.

People in the Early 1800's had to go to Southern Illinois to by corn do to a droubt in the northern part of the state. They fancied themselves, like Jacob, going to Egypt. That is the scource of the name.

Fun Fact, one of the most brutal Documented Slave Holders was in Gallatin County, Illinois.

Mordac Lord of Unholy Fury: No surprise. SIU was where all the flunkies and meatheads went.

/Go Creighton

Gonna get beat on Valentines Day.

/Go Dawgs.

sattizahn: I believe that's a misuse of the word "irony," but still entertaining!

No, I think this one is very well deserved.

FAIL tag would be more appropriate, or "Dumbasses who should have known better because they should know about fact-checkers" if we had one.

globalwarmingpraiser: Mordac Lord of Unholy Fury: No surprise. SIU was where all the flunkies and meatheads went.

/Go Creighton

Gonna get beat on Valentines Day.

/Go Dawgs.

How far we both have fallen...

Gyrfalcon: sattizahn: I believe that's a misuse of the word "irony," but still entertaining!

No, I think this one is very well deserved.

FAIL tag would be more appropriate, or "Dumbasses who should have known better because they should know about fact-checkers" if we had one.

That's not gonna fit on a tag.

Gyrfalcon: sattizahn: I believe that's a misuse of the word "irony," but still entertaining!

No, I think this one is very well deserved.

FAIL tag would be more appropriate, or "Dumbasses who should have known better because they should know about fact-checkers" if we had one.

Webster: the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning; incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result

Unless you go through life thinking, "I would never expect a plagiarism clause to infringe on policies of plagiarism," then it isn't irony. An example of true irony: A prostitute moves to Utah and becomes a Mormon.

THAT'S NOT IRONIC!

/obligatory (even if not true)

sattizahn: Gyrfalcon: sattizahn: I believe that's a misuse of the word "irony," but still entertaining!

No, I think this one is very well deserved.

FAIL tag would be more appropriate, or "Dumbasses who should have known better because they should know about fact-checkers" if we had one.

Webster: the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning; incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result

Unless you go through life thinking, "I would never expect a plagiarism clause to infringe on policies of plagiarism," then it isn't irony. An example of true irony: A prostitute moves to Utah and becomes a Mormon.

There are a lot of Mormons in Utah. Moving to Utah and converting to Mormoninity can be a normal or expected result.

sattizahn
Unless you go through life thinking, "I would never expect a plagiarism clause to infringe on policies of plagiarism," then it isn't irony. An example of true irony: A prostitute moves to Utah and becomes a Mormon.


Um....No.
Irony would be something like "Man bites Dog if fight"

Thats irony.

SIUC: one of the biggest jokes on the planet. What they know about "higher education" could fit in a reservior tip condom. Oh, there's a retired SIU dean they could bring back to teach them ethics. Oh, wait. He's probably still banging his students at the Super 8 motel down the road. The invention of Viagra surely brought the toot back to his bugle, so to speak.

/No I didn't go to school there.

Crudbucket: This whole area of southern Illinois is known as "Little Egypt." Cairo is just one tip of the triangle. Carbondale is smack in the middle of it.

The book Murder in Little Egypt was written about one of my distant cousins. I never met the guy or anyone else in the book. I read the book and liked it. I just felt the need to share.

Link (new window)

globalwarmingpraiser: LarryDan43: Go Salukis

Season Ticket holder.

skankflop: A saluki is an Egyptian dog. Southern Illinois is often referred to as "Little Egypt." Either it was a result of being infested with Gypsies, or because of some biblical thing. I don't remember.

People in the Early 1800's had to go to Southern Illinois to by corn do to a droubt in the northern part of the state. They fancied themselves, like Jacob, going to Egypt. That is the scource of the name.

Fun Fact, one of the most brutal Documented Slave Holders was in Gallatin County, Illinois.

I'm typing this from Gallatin County, Illinois, so I'm getting a kick out of this reply...

Oh, who am I kidding? There aren't any computers in Gallatin County.

Gahhhh....
Shoulda said.

Irony would be something like "Man bites Dog in fight"

I thought this was going to be about the Seafarers International Union. Good thing I RTFA before I said something silly.

If plagiarism is no big deal for the university president, Glenn Poshard, I'm sure it's no big deal for the college as a whole.

/some SEMO grad.

Mordac Lord of Unholy Fury: globalwarmingpraiser: Mordac Lord of Unholy Fury: No surprise. SIU was where all the flunkies and meatheads went.

/Go Creighton

Gonna get beat on Valentines Day.

/Go Dawgs.

How far we both have fallen...

2 years and the Salukis are back in the NCAA Tournament.

Chuck Wagon: Crudbucket: This whole area of southern Illinois is known as "Little Egypt." Cairo is just one tip of the triangle. Carbondale is smack in the middle of it.

The book Murder in Little Egypt was written about one of my distant cousins. I never met the guy or anyone else in the book. I read the book and liked it. I just felt the need to share.

Link (new window)

I lived in Harrisburg for years.


Swordblade: globalwarmingpraiser: LarryDan43: Go Salukis

Season Ticket holder.

skankflop: A saluki is an Egyptian dog. Southern Illinois is often referred to as "Little Egypt." Either it was a result of being infested with Gypsies, or because of some biblical thing. I don't remember.

People in the Early 1800's had to go to Southern Illinois to by corn do to a droubt in the northern part of the state. They fancied themselves, like Jacob, going to Egypt. That is the scource of the name.

Fun Fact, one of the most brutal Documented Slave Holders was in Gallatin County, Illinois.

I'm typing this from Gallatin County, Illinois, so I'm getting a kick out of this reply...

Oh, who am I kidding? There aren't any computers in Gallatin County.

I dated a Computer Informations Systems major from Ridgway 10 years ago. She was the hot girl that was career oriented. all the geeks wanted her and I was the Jerk that was hitting their Dream Girl.

Freud's Cigar: SIUC: one of the biggest jokes on the planet. What they know about "higher education" could fit in a reservior tip condom. Oh, there's a retired SIU dean they could bring back to teach them ethics. Oh, wait. He's probably still banging his students at the Super 8 motel down the road. The invention of Viagra surely brought the toot back to his bugle, so to speak.

/No I didn't go to school there.

Meh there is always a lot of easy sex in Carbondale. He was like every other older guy in the area cruising for young poon.

I looked up the word 'plagiarism' at a number of online dictionaries, and they're all pretty similar. So does that mean they're all lifting from each other?

This is pretty clearly a case of the same word in the same context, being defined by people of like minds and backgrounds for similar purposes. It's not unlikely at all that the specific wording of their definitions would be similar. The wording is probably a little more than half nearly the same. But an actual case of plagiarism would probably result in a more obvious similarity (including obviously fabricated 'differences').

I'm not convinced anything happened here, and I think these people are all overreacting.

as a former SIU alum, I couldn't help but laugh.

videocrime: as a former SIU alum, I couldn't help but laugh.

Did you go back in time and un-graduate?

This article is pretty farking silly. If one wants to get all anal about this, close scrutiny of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence would reveal quite a few similarities to the Magna Carta. I've not researched this deeply, but I just listened to the Magna Carta the other night in an audio book.

There are only so many words in the English language that can be used to describe specific actions a policy intends to address, and if using correct sentence structure, only so many ways anyone can put those words together without ending up with a policy very similar to something someone else already wrote.

The same goes for laws and warning signs. It isn't like policies, laws, warning signs and other similar "writings" are artistic in nature, or worthy of the designation "original thought".

Are we going research the first use of a "stop" on a sign? Or limit "first use" to the first octagonal shaped sign usage? And accuse all subsequent uses as plagiarism? On that note, there is/was a horse stable in Lake County, IL, off St. Mary's road, that had an octagonal Whoa! sign at the end of their driveway. [I'm pretty sure the Lake County sheriff dept. could not write you a ticket if you blew it off].

But in light of the Poshard incident a few years ago, the article is at least marginally humorous.

I came for pictures of Ward Churchill and am sadly disappointed.

patent holder I came for pictures of Ward Churchill and am sadly disappointed.

You should have come for pictures of Joe Biden, he's the vice-plagiarist.

Crudbucket: whiteylexus: I have several questions: why is SIU's newspaper called The Daily Egyptian? Shouldn't that be the newspaper for Cairo, Illinois? And what is a Saluki, anyway?

I'm an SIU student, so I got a kick out of your reply.

This whole area of southern Illinois is known as "Little Egypt." Cairo is just one tip of the triangle. Carbondale is smack in the middle of it.

A saluki is an ugly-ass Egyptian dog. Like a greyhound, but even uglier.

Salukis and greyhounds are beautiful dogs.

/yet another embarrassed SIUer

I'm getting a kick out of how many Saluki Alums browse FARK.

/SIUC Class of '05 Aviation Flight/Mgmt.

Jester41K: I'm getting a kick out of how many Saluki Alums browse FARK.

/SIUC Class of '05 Aviation Flight/Mgmt.

There's not much else to do in Carbondale.

Crudbucket: Jester41K: I'm getting a kick out of how many Saluki Alums browse FARK.

/SIUC Class of '05 Aviation Flight/Mgmt.

There's not much else to do in Carbondale.

Isn't the Polar Bear Party going on right now at Pinch Penny?

Jester41K: Crudbucket: Jester41K: I'm getting a kick out of how many Saluki Alums browse FARK.

/SIUC Class of '05 Aviation Flight/Mgmt.

There's not much else to do in Carbondale.

Isn't the Polar Bear Party going on right now at Pinch Penny?

If I weren't at work right now, I'd go find out.

I just noticed all my dictionaries look very similar...

Crudbucket: Jester41K: I'm getting a kick out of how many Saluki Alums browse FARK.

/SIUC Class of '05 Aviation Flight/Mgmt.

There's not much else to do in Carbondale.


Didn't somebody upthread say there's a lot of sex going on in Carbondale? Or was that only if you're a dirty old man scamming on your students?

I work at EIU and we copy half our stuff from the UofI so I think this stuff happens all the time. We do ask permission of course.

Freud's Cigar:

Didn't somebody upthread say there's a lot of sex going on in Carbondale? Or was that only if you're a dirty old man scamming on your students?

It's not just the professors. I had an...entertaining five years in the Carbondirty. See, All the dumb girls That can't get in to Mizzou or UofI come down south.

Pfffffft. SIU sucks. MO State!