# Our own Scylla is now internet famous, 11 years later.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-own-scylla-is-now-internet-famous-11-years-later/702837
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 29, 2014, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-own-scylla-is-now-internet-famous-11-years-later/702837 "2014-10-29T05:40:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2014, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-own-scylla-is-now-internet-famous-11-years-later/702837/1 "2014-10-29T05:40:52Z")
Original post: [The Horror of Blimps](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=160851). Please ensure you are seated while reading; Management is not responsible for injuries resulting from crippling bouts of laughter.
Now this appeared on humor site tickld 4 days ago. It’s now spreading around Facebook, which is how I found it.
I wonder how **Scylla** would feel if he found out he was being plagiarized.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2014, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-own-scylla-is-now-internet-famous-11-years-later/702837/2 "2014-10-29T06:12:18Z")
**Scylla** ’s last post was back in May. I sent him a PM just in case.
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### Author:  [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2014, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-own-scylla-is-now-internet-famous-11-years-later/702837/3 "2014-10-29T10:02:21Z")
Hasn’t that or another one of his stories already made him “internet famous” once before?
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### Author:  [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2014, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-own-scylla-is-now-internet-famous-11-years-later/702837/4 "2014-10-29T14:28:41Z")
Not sure, but perhaps it was the one where he was battling [nazi groundhogs](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=15906)?
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### Author:  [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2014, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-own-scylla-is-now-internet-famous-11-years-later/702837/5 "2014-10-29T14:32:11Z")
Thanks for the head’s up, Bo. I let them know. Looks like that guy is a serial plagiarist as any number of his posts have been removed due to that.
I guess it’s flattering.
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### Author:  [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2014, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-own-scylla-is-now-internet-famous-11-years-later/702837/6 "2014-10-29T14:44:36Z")
“Imitation is the sincerest form of plagiarism.” Oscar Wilde
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2014, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-own-scylla-is-now-internet-famous-11-years-later/702837/7 "2014-10-29T15:18:13Z")
Plagiarists spend eternity on the same level of hell as child murderers and Trumps.
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2014, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-own-scylla-is-now-internet-famous-11-years-later/702837/8 "2014-10-29T15:19:51Z")
Removed the link to the plagiarist’s site in the OP.
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### Author:  [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2014, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-own-scylla-is-now-internet-famous-11-years-later/702837/9 "2014-10-29T15:20:48Z")
> [@voltaire](#):
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> Hasn’t that or another one of his stories already made him “internet famous” once before?
I’ve seen [I waterboard!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=448717) linked from one or two distant parts of the internet.
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-own-scylla-is-now-internet-famous-11-years-later/702837/10 "2014-10-29T15:23:07Z")
“Imitation is the sincerest form of plagiarism.”
– Munch
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2014, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-own-scylla-is-now-internet-famous-11-years-later/702837/11 "2014-10-29T15:42:29Z")
> [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](#):
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> Not sure, but perhaps it was the one where he was battling [nazi groundhogs](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=15906)?
Heh. I just now reviewed that thread (from 2000). [Check out the final post before lockdown.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=880942&postcount=271) 😃
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### Author:  [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-own-scylla-is-now-internet-famous-11-years-later/702837/12 "2014-10-29T16:00:31Z")
> [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](#):
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> Not sure, but perhaps it was the one where he was battling [nazi groundhogs](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=15906)?
That was the thread that got me to sign up for this site.
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### Author:  [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-own-scylla-is-now-internet-famous-11-years-later/702837/13 "2014-10-29T16:16:20Z")
> [@Munch](#):
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> “Imitation is the sincerest form of plagiarism.”
> – Munch
“Plagiarism is the sincerest form of imitation.”
–Thelma Lou
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### Author:  [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-own-scylla-is-now-internet-famous-11-years-later/702837/14 "2014-10-29T16:25:44Z")
Has anyone plagiarized [Goat Porn](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=33909&highlight=goat)?
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-own-scylla-is-now-internet-famous-11-years-later/702837/15 "2014-10-29T16:34:23Z")
“Plagiarism is the sincerest form of masturbation. Imitation.” Sigmund Freud
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### Author:  [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2014, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-own-scylla-is-now-internet-famous-11-years-later/702837/16 "2014-10-29T16:38:56Z")
“You miss 100% of the stories you don’t plagiarize”
- Wayne Gretzky
–Michael Scott
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-own-scylla-is-now-internet-famous-11-years-later/702837/17 "2014-10-29T16:44:41Z")
> [@Sampiro](#):
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> Plagiarists spend eternity on the same level of hell as child murderers and Trumps.
“And for people who talk in the theater.” Derrial Book.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2014, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-own-scylla-is-now-internet-famous-11-years-later/702837/18 "2014-10-29T18:25:38Z")
> [@Sampiro](#):
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> “Plagiarism is the sincerest form of masturbation. Imitation.” Sigmund Freud
😃
Where’s the fucking “Like” button on this goddamn thing?
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### Author:  [@half-elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/half-elf)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2014, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-own-scylla-is-now-internet-famous-11-years-later/702837/19 "2014-10-29T18:48:05Z")
Does anybody have any idea why the linked thread (very amusing, by the way!) appears as 242 pages with 1 post each? 😕
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2014, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-own-scylla-is-now-internet-famous-11-years-later/702837/20 "2014-10-29T19:01:08Z")
> [@Agent\_Foxtrot](#):
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> Original post: [The Horror of Blimps](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=160851&pp=1). Please ensure you are seated while reading; Management is not responsible for injuries resulting from crippling bouts of laughter.
>
> Now this appeared on humor site tickld 4 days ago. It’s now spreading around Facebook, which is how I found it.
>
> I wonder how **Scylla** would feel if he found out he was being plagiarized.
There are few stories that make me laugh uncontrollably every time I read them. That story is one of them. I’m giggling like a maniac here in my office, trying to keep quiet.
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