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Subject: Admins...this is not a parody

Written By: agrimorfee on 06/12/06 at 5:03 pm

http://www.amiright.com/parody/80s/davidbowie14.shtml

The "author" must have been tripping with Major Tom... ::)

Subject: Re: Admins...this is not a parody

Written By: ChuckyG on 06/12/06 at 5:50 pm


http://www.amiright.com/parody/80s/davidbowie14.shtml

The "author" must have been tripping with Major Tom... ::)


yeah, he tried to submit a couple like that... must have thought it was something else

Subject: Re: Admins...this is not a parody

Written By: Mrs. Critic on 07/17/06 at 1:26 pm

Neither is this:

http://www.amiright.com/parody/misc/traditional1129.shtml

Please take it down asap.

Subject: Admins, this is not a parody either.

Written By: Joe (guest) on 09/11/06 at 1:50 pm

This isn't a parody either:

http://www.amiright.com/parody/2000s/weezer39.shtml

Subject: Re: Admins, this is not a parody either.

Written By: ChuckyG on 09/11/06 at 3:20 pm


This isn't a parody either:

http://www.amiright.com/parody/2000s/weezer39.shtml


ugh George Hamilton IV... guy was such a PITA, constantly submitting stuff I had to remove or disapprove. Glad he finally got bored and moved on.

Subject: Re: Admins...this is not a parody

Written By: nally on 09/14/06 at 9:26 am

Hey Chuck...

I just spotted another "non-parody" of the "ABC Song":

http://www.amiright.com/parody/misc/traditional1163.shtml

Subject: Re: Admins...this is not a parody

Written By: ChuckyG on 09/14/06 at 9:48 am


Hey Chuck...

I just spotted another "non-parody" of the "ABC Song":

http://www.amiright.com/parody/misc/traditional1163.shtml


he submits one every day... most have missed this one today when I was deleting stuff

Subject: Re: Admins...this is not a parody

Written By: agrimorfee on 09/18/06 at 11:42 am

Here's another one... >:(

http://www.amiright.com/parody/2000s/falloutboy20.shtml

Subject: Re: Admins...this is not a parody

Written By: Red Ant on 09/18/06 at 1:39 pm


Here's another one... >:(

http://www.amiright.com/parody/2000s/falloutboy20.shtml



I DKTOS, so I compared it to a set of lyrics on the 'net. Yeah, a lot of words were used from the orginal, but I don't think it qualifies as a plagiary.

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/A-Little-Less-Sixteen-Candles-A-Little-More-touch-Me-lyrics-Fall-Out-Boy/E31A5762F1C496A848256FF10013DFB0

Subject: Re: Admins...this is not a parody

Written By: ChuckyG on 09/18/06 at 3:38 pm


I DKTOS, so I compared it to a set of lyrics on the 'net. Yeah, a lot of words were used from the orginal, but I don't think it qualifies as a plagiary.

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/A-Little-Less-Sixteen-Candles-A-Little-More-touch-Me-lyrics-Fall-Out-Boy/E31A5762F1C496A848256FF10013DFB0


I agree.  There's not many parodies on the site that keep lines from the original, but that's ok.  As long as the majority of the lines are rewritten.

Subject: Re: Admins...this is not a parody

Written By: agrimorfee on 10/26/06 at 11:09 am

Del http://www.amiright.com/parody/misc/variousartists22.shtml

Subject: Re: Admins...this is not a parody

Written By: Mr. Critic on 10/31/06 at 9:24 am

This ain't a parody at all:

http://www.amiright.com/parody/misc/traditional1190.shtml

Subject: Re: Admins...this is not a parody

Written By: Red Ant on 11/04/06 at 4:31 pm

ChuckyG, this parody by Josh Hefner:

http://www.amiright.com/parody/2000s/barenakedladies41.shtml

is a word-for-word plagiary of Mikey Squirrel's copywritten one (don't delete this one):

http://www.amiright.com/parody/80s/barenakedladies0.shtml


Subject: Re: Admins...this is not a parody

Written By: Joe. on 11/22/06 at 11:21 am

This is absolutely NOT a parody at all: http://www.amiright.com/parody/misc/traditional382.shtml

Neither is this: http://www.amiright.com/parody/misc/traditional409.shtml

Subject: Re: Admins...this is not a parody

Written By: nally on 12/22/06 at 7:15 pm

http://www.amiright.com/parody/misc/traditional1305.shtml

The pacing wasn't even close in most places. :-\\

Subject: Re: Admins...this is not a parody

Written By: Red Ant on 12/22/06 at 7:39 pm


http://www.amiright.com/parody/misc/traditional1305.shtml

The pacing wasn't even close in most places. :-\\


Fitu's pacing rarely is. It also makes no sense to me, but it's an improvement in that the parody is complete and not plagiarized.

Sadly, I find that the only reason I read Fitu's parodies anymore is to make sure they aren't plagiaries.

Subject: Re: Admins...this is not a parody

Written By: nally on 12/22/06 at 7:42 pm


Fitu's pacing rarely is. It also makes no sense to me, but it's an improvement in that the parody is complete and not plagiarized.

Sadly, I find that the only reason I read Fitu's parodies anymore is to make sure they aren't plagiaries.


I know, but it's just not well paced. I've noticed that the guy has a rep for writing crummy parodies. ::)

Subject: Re: Admins...this is not a parody

Written By: Red Ant on 12/22/06 at 8:07 pm


I know, but it's just not well paced. I've noticed that the guy has a rep for writing crummy parodies. ::)


Yes, quite true. However, I would use low votes for such pieces that IMHO have no real grounds to be deleted otherwise. This parody in question paces so horrifically that if Fitu listed TOS as "Yesterday" by the Beatles, or "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot, it wouldn't pace any worse than it does to "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." Fitu has done what I thought was impossible: make me wish there were a 0 voting option in the pacing category. That said, if ChuckyG wipes it, I'm not going to lose any sleep.

Normally I'd be more sympathetic, but Kristof, Paul R. myself, and a few others have tried to help Fitu in the past; obviously those were wasted words. Not to mention Fitu is a 4-time plagiarist...

Subject: Re: Admins...this is not a parody

Written By: nally on 12/22/06 at 9:59 pm


Fitu has done what I thought was impossible: make me wish there were a 0 voting option in the pacing category. That said, if ChuckyG wipes it, I'm not going to lose any sleep.



Yeah, there've been times when I wish there was a zero...I've come across really crappy stuff. I don't even comment on such things. :-\\

Subject: Re: Admins...this is not a parody

Written By: sloatead on 12/23/06 at 8:38 pm

Maybe if we had to log in before we could vote, comment, or submit a parody, we could get rid of the flamers, one's jerks, and plagiarists. Has this been suggested before, and is it possible?

Subject: Re: Admins...this is not a parody

Written By: Red Ant on 12/23/06 at 8:59 pm


Maybe if we had to log in before we could vote, comment, or submit a parody, we could get rid of the flamers, one's jerks, and plagiarists. Has this been suggested before, and is it possible?


It has been suggested before, and it is possible. It wouldn't be likeable or workable though; even the 1s guys, plagiarists, jerks, spammers could register via e-mail or whatever. The only benefit to a log in (i.e., an account) would be the possibility of banning spammers. Given that roughly half of the current authors and most all of the casual commentors on AmiRight don't even have inthe00s.com accounts, I think going that route would seriously dampen the votes/comments we get now. IMHO, requiring log-ins, registrations, e-mail, etc. would kill off the parody portion of the website in short order.

The better way to deal with these undesireable but unavoidable aspects are:

1s guys:  Don't pay 'em any mind, everyone gets 1s from time to time.

Plagiarists:  Report the parody to ChuckyG as a plagiary. Stealing other's work only makes that author look bad anyway, why it's even done is beyond me.

Jerks:  Bad comments can come with the territory of posting on the Internet. If the same person is continually a jerk (spamming, profanity, decade complaints), use the Report Inappropriate Comment link.

Spammers: Report the comments as spam. Spam is dealt with quickly here, and so far has remained under control. ChuckyG is constantly working on new ways to deal with spam that don't require log-ins, which would be bypassed by a dedicated spammer anyway.

BTW, welcome to the board!

Subject: Re: Admins...this is not a parody

Written By: guest on 02/18/09 at 10:16 am

Admins...

Here's one that has been reported to not be valid: www.amiright.com/parody/90s/aqua43.shtml

It is pretty much a word-for-word copy of the OS. It needs to be taken down

Subject: Re: Admins...this is not a parody

Written By: ChuckyG on 02/18/09 at 10:20 am


Admins...

Here's one that has been reported to not be valid: www.amiright.com/parody/90s/aqua43.shtml

It is pretty much a word-for-word copy of the OS. It needs to be taken down


there were several of those submitted that day... not sure how that one got through

Subject: Re: Admins...this is not a parody

Written By: Guest on 06/22/09 at 12:04 pm

http://www.amiright.com/parody/2000s/weirdal5.shtml

Not only is it a fragment, but it's written very incoherently and it doesn't make the least ounce of sense. Furthermore, Weird Al never even sang the OS.

Subject: Re: Admins...this is not a parody

Written By: Another guest on 07/16/09 at 12:52 pm

http://www.amiright.com/parody/90s/mariahcarey23.shtml

As two commenters have already stated, it cannot be sung to the OS at all. One such commenter even stated that this author's parodies (Jay Jianorian) aren't very singable at all. Could it be possible to take all of his paroides down?

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