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Ellis in Wellyland

Friday, March 09, 2007

Plagarism!

Just over a year ago, my brother sent me an email with about a dozen cricket sledges - I dropped a couple of the ruder ones, and posted them here.

Now, I'm number one on Google for 'Cricket Sledges' and during the Ashes I got so many Australian Visitors to that one page it ate up all my bandwidth and I had to upgrade my package with my webhost.

And blow me down if todays Dominion Post Sports Tabloid didn't have half my list on page 5.

Of course, without an acknoledgement of the source.

posted by Michael at 7:40 PM

6 Comments:

  • Come on Michael the source of the great cricketing sledges are from the players themseleves.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:28 AM  

  • True, but the reporter didn't speak to the players involved - just lifted the text from my site, edited it a bit (I accept that my english is shoddy at best) and represented it as their own work.

    All they had to say was "Some of the best examples of cricket sledging, collected from the internet" and then they'd be fine.

    By Blogger Michael, at 5:06 PM  

  • That list has been circulating via email and the web for a very long time. Certainly long before you posted it here.

    By Anonymous Richard, at 2:17 PM  

  • This page has pretty much the same text, and dates from April 2005:

    http://forums.megagames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47885

    By Anonymous Richard, at 2:21 PM  

  • Argh. Wrong one, sorry. Try this one from July 2004:

    http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8946

    I really shouldn't comment and eat at the same time...

    By Anonymous Richard, at 2:25 PM  

  • The Marsh / Botham sledge leaves out Botham's classic response - "The wife's fine, the kids are retarded."

    By Blogger babylon, at 7:06 PM  

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