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.
All right, no one's killing folk today, on account of our very tight schedule.
Mal ,'Trash'
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.
Betsy HP - Dec 06, 2005 3:00:27 pm PST #9811 of 10006
If I only had a brain...
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...
Topic!Cindy - Dec 06, 2005 3:54:17 pm PST #9818 of 10006
What is even happening?
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."shrift, assuming that you're either cool with it now because of the confession, or at least not angry about it, I think the above is the way to handle it. Tell her it's not fair to the other people who entered the contest. Then I'd forget about it, and let her be honorable or not, on her own.
Sue - Dec 06, 2005 3:54:42 pm PST #9819 of 10006
hip deep in pie
Me either Laura.
OK I love the face recognition software now. It just told me I look like Audrey Tautou, Billie Holliday, Shakira and Jennifer Connelly. All of whom are at least 12 times better-looking than me.
Have you met you?
brenda m - Dec 06, 2005 4:00:42 pm PST #9820 of 10006
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
The Billboard Awards have a category for ringtones? Okaaay.