Trying to find an old post

June 29, 2005 8:47 AM

I'm trying to find a thread about a guy who was asked to write a paper for a college student, which he does filling it with horrible errors. My search has turned up nothing. Can anyone hook me up?
posted by dial-tone to MetaFilter-related at 8:47 AM (12 comments total)

The actual blog.

The MeFi thread.
posted by jacquilynne at 8:51 AM on June 29, 2005

Thanks.
posted by dial-tone at 9:15 AM on June 29, 2005

Nice, I hadn't seen this the first time around and its well worth the read!
posted by fenriq at 11:29 AM on June 29, 2005

Wow, that dude's a dick.
posted by xmutex at 11:37 AM on June 29, 2005

Yeah, people who expect academic honesty are real cocks.
posted by keswick at 12:10 PM on June 29, 2005

This should be funny. Writing a paper about karma, and then not only taking the opportunity to ruin someone's dreams for life, but relishing in it. Wow. We're talking about a whole double helping of karma for this person.

People who against vigilantism are dicks then too, yes?

The right answer here is to send the IM to the dean of the college and not write the paper. Since no plagarism happened (just a very likely possibility) they shouldn't bust the person's ass out of college, but instead give her the chewing out she needs. Karma would respect this.

Oh well... I'm still sorta flabbergasted that someone could include the word "Karma" in a paper so many times, consider themselves an expert in english, yet not take a moment to look up the word and perhaps just try practicing it for a moment.

Hell, she even seriously considered blackmailing this poor person. Get real. That goes beyond being terribly mean into being a criminal.

Karma karma karma karma karma chameleon...
posted by shepd at 12:57 PM on June 29, 2005

Karma would respect this.

Thank God, a verdict from the karma police.

Hell, she even seriously considered blackmailing this poor person. Get real. That goes beyond being terribly mean into being a criminal.

"She" is a he, and he didn't seriously consider it, if you read the follow-ups to the original post.
posted by ChrisTN at 1:15 PM on June 29, 2005

Jesus, we're not going to start this whole argument again, are we?
posted by Snyder at 1:23 PM on June 29, 2005

No, we're not. Suffice it to say that reasonable well-intentioned people have sharply divergent views on the matter.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 1:46 PM on June 29, 2005

fuk you goerge bush won and your jelus and kery sux "flip'flop' agin what a moran
posted by gramschmidt at 1:53 PM on June 29, 2005

What EB and gramschmidt said.
posted by languagehat at 2:15 PM on June 29, 2005

The one time I bother to use politically correct lanaguage and it's wrong... thanks ChrisTN. :-)
posted by shepd at 3:21 PM on June 29, 2005