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OlssonE
Maniac (V) Inmate

From:  Eagleshieldsbay, Sweden
Insane since: Nov 2001

posted posted 02-24-2003 13:45

So If you have a text sig like:
___________________________
I'm a neato ass-kicker

or any other unusual line of text.
Is it considered ripping to take that
line of text and use it as your own?

Moon Shadow
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Rouen, France
Insane since: Jan 2003

posted posted 02-24-2003 14:08

I would say yes if this is a personal text, otherwise if this a quote from a politician or someone else I would say no.

Silence is another speech. -Me

DL-44
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: under the bed
Insane since: Feb 2000

posted posted 02-24-2003 14:27

OlssonE
Maniac (V) Inmate

From:  Eagleshieldsbay, Sweden
Insane since: Nov 2001

posted posted 02-24-2003 15:21

Ok, It was that I saw an line of text
used at another forum. It was the exactly
the same line of text that a user at this
forum has.

Well I think it's lame and unorignal even
though it's not 'illegal'.




[This message has been edited by OlssonE (edited 02-24-2003).]

Emperor
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist with Finglongers

From: Cell 53, East Wing
Insane since: Jul 2001

posted posted 02-24-2003 16:00

OlssonE: Apart from the it-isn't-very-important factor have you considered the fact that they might be the same person with different usernames?

___________________
Emps

FAQs: Emperor

Michael
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: *land
Insane since: Nov 2000

posted posted 02-24-2003 18:25

^ yah... what emps said.


FAQs n' Bits: Michael

DL-44
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: under the bed
Insane since: Feb 2000

posted posted 02-24-2003 18:35

Or that perhaps the text in use was a quote, and both people simply happen to have chosen the same quote?

Or that perhaps the text used was so vague and unimportant that two people happened to think of the same thing?

Or....



Michael
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: *land
Insane since: Nov 2000

posted posted 02-24-2003 18:42

or... what emps said.


FAQs n' Bits: Michael

Emperor
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist with Finglongers

From: Cell 53, East Wing
Insane since: Jul 2001

posted posted 02-24-2003 19:27

or... what DL said

or someone saw someone else's comment and lacking in originality themselves thought it worth lifting in a crude attempt to come up with something which might impress some other weak-minded people into thinking they were:

a) cool or:
b) interesting

While I am mildly interested in who it is so we can point and mutter comments behind their back this is so amazing trivial that the true mind-numbing triviality is only just dawning on me. The fact that it has taken some of the greatest minds in the Asylum (and Michael) a number of posts to point this out demonstrates that it is a Slow News Day around these parts.

So here is my advice:

1. Email the person who's sig has cuaght your attention and let them know that you know. Or:

2. Contact the person whos sig has been lifted. If they were bothered by this it would prove that they also were a fool.

Now can we move on to something else? I propose that everyone have a dig around in their belly buttons/navels and post pictures of what they find in there.

___________________
Emps

FAQs: Emperor

Michael
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: *land
Insane since: Nov 2000

posted posted 02-24-2003 20:03

yah... what emps said.


FAQs n' Bits: Michael

Petskull
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: 127 Halcyon Road, Marenia, Atlantis
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted posted 02-24-2003 20:12

*sniff*

I must admit.... that it is I of which you speak..

Some horrible, terrible man calling himself Dante plundered the delicate etchings of my sig and ruthlessly plastered them whereupon only the gaze of wicked men may tread..

*sobbing*


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OlssonE
Maniac (V) Inmate

From:  Eagleshieldsbay, Sweden
Insane since: Nov 2001

posted posted 02-24-2003 20:37

Emps.
Yepp, checked profile!

Michael.
Check under 'Emperor.'

DL-44.
Thought of that too!
But the text line it self
is so abnorm and strange
that I hardly would think that.

Michael.
Check under 'Emperor.' (above)

Emperor.
Ahh! Ok I admit It has been a
slow news day to me too. Well
I feel dumb... No more stupid
threads today! (but there is always
another day tomorrow )

Michael.
Check under 'Emperor.' (above)

Petskull.
aaaaaaaaaaaa....tooooo baaaaad but.......Noooooooo


and to all of you including me -> <-

Rinswind 2th
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: Den Haag: The Royal Residence
Insane since: Jul 2000

posted posted 02-24-2003 20:46

o O

"Freedom of speech is by no means freedom to insult others" from the Razorart goodbye letter.

Rinswind 2th
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: Den Haag: The Royal Residence
Insane since: Jul 2000

posted posted 02-24-2003 20:48

^^^^^^^^^^^
Original Ripped Text i stole all by my self...

"Freedom of speech is by no means freedom to insult others" from the Razorart goodbye letter.

OlssonE
Maniac (V) Inmate

From:  Eagleshieldsbay, Sweden
Insane since: Nov 2001

posted posted 02-24-2003 20:58

*slaps Rinswind with his silly circles...*


Is that ('o O') from the anti-drug information
campain?

Petskull
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: 127 Halcyon Road, Marenia, Atlantis
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted posted 02-24-2003 21:30

*looks around and wonders if anybody got it*

OlssonE
Maniac (V) Inmate

From:  Eagleshieldsbay, Sweden
Insane since: Nov 2001

posted posted 02-24-2003 21:37

Well that's a joke someone posted a while ago.
I found a similar joke here: http://www.frog.co.nz/jokes/joke07.html

I thought somebody would remember it but I guess it just to tasteless
for your delicate minds...

hehe... I thinkt this is relevant. http://www.frog.co.nz/jokes/joke28.html

[This message has been edited by OlssonE (edited 02-24-2003).]

DL-44
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: under the bed
Insane since: Feb 2000

posted posted 02-24-2003 21:51

So...after all that nonsense....is there actually a point now?

Are we going to share this text that has so enraptured you? Are you going to contact this person? Are you going to forget this ever happened?

I know I am losing sleep already....



MW
Bipolar (III) Inmate

From: 48°00´N 7°51´E
Insane since: Jan 2003

posted posted 02-24-2003 22:35

Petskull: I wasn´t going to make a fuss about it, but since you asked:

*sings* I GOT IT, I GOT IT !!!!

OlssonE
Maniac (V) Inmate

From:  Eagleshieldsbay, Sweden
Insane since: Nov 2001

posted posted 02-24-2003 22:41

DL.
maybe.... I'm going to sleep now ZZzzzzzzzzz

You can look at the naked God Zues while waiting for me to get up http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=45728

viol
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: Charles River
Insane since: May 2002

posted posted 02-24-2003 22:54

I have literally stolen a quote from this site just to add it to my one-page website at wwwdotvioldotcom. BUT, before I did that, I made sure that the quote was well-known all over the Internet (the quote itself has the name of the guy that originally said the quote). So, actually, I didn't steal the quote itself but rather the work of someone that had created the .png file with that quote. I could easily create a similar file, with the same quote, but I didn't. Shame on me.

DL-44
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: under the bed
Insane since: Feb 2000

posted posted 02-24-2003 23:07

Well, it seems obvious to me which 'text sig' you are referring to, and that is indeed a quote - from a song.

However, one person quoted it correctly, the other person did not

So no, there's no issue whatsoever here....other than the bad habit of using song lyrics as a sig.



twItch^
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: the west wing
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted posted 02-25-2003 02:05

words are for nerds.


Emperor
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist with Finglongers

From: Cell 53, East Wing
Insane since: Jul 2001

posted posted 02-25-2003 02:09

twitch^: Amen.

And even through I still haven't a clue what anyone is talking about I can't really see too much a problem - its only text after all

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viol
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: Charles River
Insane since: May 2002

posted posted 02-25-2003 04:47
quote:
words are for nerds.


Wow, that did hurt.

Lord_Fukutoku
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: West Texas
Insane since: Jul 2002

posted posted 02-25-2003 04:54

Hmm, let's hope Suho doesn't see that

Well, I don't know... Might be kind of interesting to see if the pen is mightier than the paintbrush...


-- Unoriginal Cell 693 --

Bugimus
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: New California
Insane since: Mar 2000

posted posted 02-25-2003 05:10

Words are for nerds and pics are for *****. Or some such thing

. . : slicePuzzle

Emperor
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist with Finglongers

From: Cell 53, East Wing
Insane since: Jul 2001

posted posted 02-25-2003 05:11

Bugs: Pos. "hicks"?

___________________
Emps

FAQs: Emperor

mahjqa
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: The Demented Side of the Fence
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted posted 02-25-2003 06:56

Whatever.

___________________
I stole this tagline from someone equally unoriginal.

Wolfen
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Minnesota
Insane since: Jan 2001

posted posted 02-25-2003 07:02

Well, look at the text under my sig and as my sig....

I also used to have this too as my text sig: ^..^___)

(top half of a wolf with his tail in the air...)



The programmer's national anthem is 'AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH''

Wolfen's Sig Site

twItch^
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: the west wing
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted posted 02-25-2003 07:16

okay, for those that don't know me, my comment, "words are for nerds," was meant in a mocking sense.

You see, I study linguistics and composition of language. I love words. Words give me erections. So, bugger off.


viol
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: Charles River
Insane since: May 2002

posted posted 02-25-2003 07:24

I find a lot easier to have erections with pictures...

WebShaman
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: Happy Hunting Grounds...
Insane since: Mar 2001

posted posted 02-25-2003 07:59

Uhhhh...Okaaay.


Peacepipe, anyone? *Puff, puff*

Ahhh...pretty colors...


WebShaman

niteroll
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate

From:
Insane since: Feb 2003

posted posted 02-25-2003 08:31

I don't see any point to this thread at all.

Silence is another speech. -Me
FAQs n' Bits: Michael

MW
Bipolar (III) Inmate

From: 48°00´N 7°51´E
Insane since: Jan 2003

posted posted 02-25-2003 12:33

If there´s a peacepipe being passed around, that´s point enough for me.

CPrompt
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: there...no..there.....
Insane since: May 2001

posted posted 02-25-2003 22:51

well since there is no point to this thread. . . I just love it that twitch^ is coming around more

Damn you guys are funny. DL, is your big toe still itching?

Later,

C:\


~Binary is best~

reitsma
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: the bigger bedroom
Insane since: Oct 2000

posted posted 02-25-2003 23:01

hmmm... i really don't see much of a point to stealing text sigs.


___________________
Emps

Michael
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: *land
Insane since: Nov 2000

posted posted 02-25-2003 23:54

I couldn't agree less.

=)


Emperor
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist with Finglongers

From: Cell 53, East Wing
Insane since: Jul 2001

posted posted 02-26-2003 00:30

yah... what michael said.


FAQs n' Bits: Michael

niteroll
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate

From:
Insane since: Feb 2003

posted posted 02-26-2003 02:33



Silence is another speech. -Me
FAQs n' Bits: Michael

twItch^
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: the west wing
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted posted 02-26-2003 02:57

Lets go ahead and talk about something else now. I got tired of this thread a long, long time ago.

So...who wants pie?


mahjqa
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: The Demented Side of the Fence
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted posted 02-26-2003 03:23

Me! can I have some?

Emperor
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist with Finglongers

From: Cell 53, East Wing
Insane since: Jul 2001

posted posted 02-26-2003 04:52

twitch^: Yep it never really got going. What kind of pie?

WebShaman

WebShaman
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: Happy Hunting Grounds...
Insane since: Mar 2001

posted posted 02-26-2003 07:39

*Slaps emps*

Hehe...

Pie?

Bmud
Bipolar (III) Inmate

From: Raleigh, NC
Insane since: Mar 2001

posted posted 02-26-2003 20:29

turkey pie.

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