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Monday, 26 March 2007

Private Eye stole my poem

Allegedly, as they would say.

What little time Private Eye can spare from turning down our advertising, they have now devoted to stealing my E. J. Thribb spoof about John Inman.

I wrote:

So farewell then, Mr Humphries

“I’m free!” That was

Your catchphrase

You are now

Eye wrote:

So farewell then, John Inman

“I’m free!” That was

Your catchphrase

And now

(In a very real sense)

You are

Actually, it's probably just coincidence, but if not:

Bugger off then, E. J. Thribb

You thieving

Bastard. Bad poems. That was

Your thing

That's my thing too.

But at least I write my own

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Posted on 03/26/2007 11:36 AM by Mary Jackson

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Comments

26 Mar 2007
Hugh Fitzgerald
The clumsy addition by Private Eye's writer of that penultimate and quite unnecessary line, so rightly absent from your earlier and�better version, is telling.

26 Mar 2007

Esmerelda Weatherwax

Those who use news stories from here without a hat tip are an irritation but they are merely bad mannered.

Ripping off original work is a damn cheek.

26 Mar 2007

Robert Bove

"Plagiarism is the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work."

"Copyright infringement (or copyright violation) is the unauthorized use of material which is covered by copyright law, in a manner that violates one of the original copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works that build upon it. "

26 Mar 2007
Paul Blaskowicz

Mystery solved. I just knew I'd already read it...

John Inman when asked about his sexuality on tv a couple of years ago replied: I don't know what I am, really. (Everyone else did.) Bless. Requiescat in pace: free at last.

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