Well, to be absolutely accurate, plagiarism means "an act or instance of plagiarizing" or "something plagiarized" (according to Merriam-Webster's online definition)
And they say that "plagiarize" means:
Main Entry: pla·gia·rize
Pronunciation: 'plA-j&-"rIz also -jE-&-
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -rized; -riz·ing
Etymology: plagiary
Date: 1716
transitive senses : to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source
intransitive senses : to commit literary theft : present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source
- pla·gia·riz·er noun
I am not an intentional plagiarist, in that I try to always give credit to the originator. The worst that I might do, is to mistakenly give someone credit for another's work. That's bad enough, and I try to be certain of the origins of a thing before I put it on display. I would never stoop to actual plagiarism. Oh, I might "borrow" a nifty bit of HTML, or a clever turn of phrase, but I would never, if asked, take credit for actually creating it to start with.
What I have done here, is not an attempt to deceive you into thinking that I am the originator to the pieces linked below, but rather to share the brilliance of others that you may also be amused, amazed, bemused, and befuddled by their creations, just as I have been. I will always attempt to be as acurate as I can about the origins of these pieces, so that you can have the best luck possible in finding the whole work if the piece listed here is a fragment, or in order that you can find more works by the same geniuses that created these works in the first place.
There! I hope that puts that whole business to rest once and for all!
In no particular order at all:
