shnitzy – I think you’ve missed the joke twice now… I’m not claiming the works of Shakespeare or Bacon as my own (which would be plagiarism), I am playing on the general theme of infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters and the works of Shakespeare, so in the first entry without the infinite time, they’d only be able to produce selected quotes. The second one played on the Bacon = Shakespeare conspiracy theory (so infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters would produce the works of Francis Bacon, not Shakespeare, again, selected quotes given finite time). And that, I think even you would have to admit, is an original idea (all the quotes in that entry, FYI, were from Bacon). The content may not have been mine but I credited the source (therefore no plagiarism) and the construct was most definitely original (and therefore also not plagiarism). The infinite Baconian monkeys idea is most definitely mine and totally original (but, hey, I thought that about the infinite monkeys with limited time producing selected quotes idea so what do I know?). More thought and originality went into my entries (which received a 🙁 and an accusation of plagiarism) than into one which simply involved turning someone else’s post upside down (which merely received a warning). I’m genuinely interested in learning the reasoning behind these umpiring decisions.
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