High school students mellows me somewhat, but the appropriate time for them to mention this was before submitting the story.
Love isn't brains, children, it's blood, blood screaming inside you to work its will.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Laura - Dec 06, 2005 2:46:42 pm PST #9808 of 10006
Our wings are not tired.
DavidS - Dec 06, 2005 2:49:44 pm PST #9809 of 10006
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
David, you are a charming liar. I mean that in the best way.
Pfft. I don't have to lie about your smile. It's got 50,000 watts of power. Anyway, I'd much much rather have lunch with you.
DXM, looks like the Dodgers went with Grady Little.
I think the A's are getting Frank Thomas. Probably with an incentive laden contract to minimize losing him to injury.
JZ - Dec 06, 2005 2:51:02 pm PST #9810 of 10006
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I am livid on your behalf, shrift.
And, yeah, what brenda said: the student ought to 'fess up to the prize committee before you do.
I'm quite wroth at the thought of somebody stealing a big chunk of your words, but not really surprised that your words have been judged to be substantial-cash-prizeworthy.
Betsy HP - Dec 06, 2005 3:00:27 pm PST #9811 of 10006
If I only had a brain...
Dear Ms. X,
I'm afraid I can't offer you forgiveness until you repent. In this case, that would mean confessing to the prize committee. Confessing to me is a good first step, but I'm not the only person you defrauded.
Allyson - Dec 06, 2005 3:03:20 pm PST #9812 of 10006
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Or, you can let the thief go, shrift....
...in exchange for the index finger of his/her right hand. So everytime s/he types, s/he will remember that stealing words is wrong.
shrift - Dec 06, 2005 3:09:43 pm PST #9813 of 10006
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I think my first step in dealing with this problem shall be: 1) Go get beer.
Step number 2 can wait until tomorrow.
Laura - Dec 06, 2005 3:19:42 pm PST #9814 of 10006
Our wings are not tired.
Woo! A good first step.
Connie Neil - Dec 06, 2005 3:25:12 pm PST #9815 of 10006
brillig
I'm thinking it probably wasn't only shrift's excellent prose that won the kid the award, so making the kid give up everything seems overly harsh. If it happened to me, I'd tell said kid, "Sounds like you need to tell the prize committee you forgot to cite a quote in that piece of writing you did, see what they make of it."
He was probably thinking, "I wish I could have made that point as well as shrift did, odds are this won't go anywhere--oh, hell."
He could have just let it slide, after all.
Laura - Dec 06, 2005 3:28:04 pm PST #9816 of 10006
Our wings are not tired.
Charlie Brown just doesn't get old for me.
DXMachina - Dec 06, 2005 3:53:25 pm PST #9817 of 10006
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
DXM, looks like the Dodgers went with Grady Little.
Yeah, I'm all aquiver with excitement...
Although I did think he got a bit of a raw deal up in Boston. At least it wasn't Fregosi...