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Old 03-08-11, 05:33 PM   #3
Platapus
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What is actually funny is that about 200 years ago plagiarism was respected and expected in academia.

Contemporary readers slam Thomas Jefferson for his rampant plagiarism, and he did plagiarize a lot. But that's how scholarly work was done back then. Different culture
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