Do you ever get the feeling that what you have previously written on internet message boards sometimes gets appropriated by professional writers?
Nah, but I often get the feeling that a lot of posts on internet message boards are stolen from the fictional world! Maybe some writers get stuff for inspiration, but its no big deal IMHO
yep. all of moby dick was actually plagiarized directly from a post i made on 4chan several years ago.
[SIZE=11pt]Yes, I wrote the list below in 2003 and posted it online one year before the Hollywood release of Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) and there’s a scene in the movie which exactly mirrors my ideas - it can't be a mere coincidence[/SIZE] What did each member nation contribute to the coalition in Iraq? Afghanistan (Nothing) Angola (Head Lice) Albania (The dead blessings of Mother Teresa) Australia (A battalion of aborigines armed with boomerangs) Azerbaijan (Nothing) Bulgaria (Promises to patrol the Hellespont and stay out of our way) Colombia (Sent their mini-submarine fleet to patrol the Tigris) Czech Republic (Sent the complete works of Franz Kafka) Denmark (Free prostitutes for the U.S. Troops) Dominican Republic (Sent a shipment of sugarcane to the gulf) El Salvador (Sent a school of deadly Piranha to seed the Euphrates) Eritrea (Sent a squad of Massai warriors) Estonia (Provided technical support on how to manage an economy without Jews) Ethiopia (Sent their finest jugglers to entertain the troops) Italy (Free Pizza for the troops) Japan (Released Godzilla to use as plan B) Kuwait (Nothing, but they do have sand as far as the eye can see) Latvia (Promises not to Join NATO in 2003 …ooops! to late) Macedonia (Would have sent Alexander the Great but he’s been dead for centuries) Micronesia (Sent several crates of Pineapples) Mongolia (Captured several Yeti to put into action) Netherlands (Well they did recently legalize euthanasia) Nicaragua (Sent over a dozen chameleons to participate in a black-ops super-soldier experiment) Pakistan (Nothing, but it’s a good bet that’s where Osama bin laden is hiding out) Philippines (Imelda Marcos has promised to provide each female soldier with a pair of Gucci’s) Poland (Sent a 1001 Polish Jokes – literally) Romania (Received Count Dracula's personal assurance that he will suck the life's blood out of each Iraqi Soldier) Rwanda (Sent an elite squad of Silverback Mountain Gorillas) Singapore (Promises to provide all the opium the CIA can smuggle into The United States) Solomon islands (a free tattoo for every enlisted man) Spain (Sent the famed Spanish Armada to patrol the gulf, yes, the same armada that was destroyed in detail by the British navy in 1588) Uganda (Promises to provide a division of pygmies to put into action) United Kingdom (45,000 troops with bad teeth and bad breath) Hotwater
