Let an EXCELSIOR be an EXCELSIOR, and let sleeping LOLS lie

Anyway technically speaking what TurnItIn probably does when you upload your paper is check a bunch of n-grams (chunks of words a few sentences long) and checks its index for matches. When it finds matches on an improbably long chunk of words, it flags it as plagiarism.
Basically it types in random phrases to google but advanced and automatic.
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Thursday, February 16, 2012 5:02 AM (1 hour ago)

imna reverse engineer it and sell a product that can write papers for people
― iatee, Thursday, February 16, 2012 5:05 AM (1 hour ago)

im gonna sell people chunks of words
― lag∞n, Thursday, February 16, 2012 5:06 AM (1 hour ago)

i will sell them dream words and nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town
― (_()_) (Lamp), Thursday, February 16, 2012 5:17 AM (57 minutes ago)

that does sound like a pretty good business model
― lag∞n, Thursday, February 16, 2012 5:23 AM (52 minutes ago)

at the very least it's better than the groupon business model
― iatee, Thursday, February 16, 2012 5:24 AM (50 minutes ago)

that's the premise for my romance writer's phrase book, and it was published in 1984!

(not the phrasebook i wrote, the phrasebook i HAVE)
it was written by kent and shelton
it is a campy masterpiece of weirdness

Amazon link plz?

gbx's footnotes are amazing. I have lolled.

XP LINK TO THE THREAD GODAMNIT

imna reverse engineer it and sell a product that can write papers for people
― iatee, Thursday, February 16, 2012 5:05 AM (1 hour ago)

This basically exists for lazy and stupid SEO people: http://www.kunocreative.com/blog/bid/71420/What-Black-Hat-Content-Marketing-for-SEO-Looks-Like

It takes existing content, reads and parses it, then spits back out a rewritten version substituting synonyms and similar phrases. If you click through and look at the "rewritten" version compared to the original, it's like "Engrish" to the nth degree.

holy shit SB went, huh.

Not really no, its just been renamed.

you may be surprised to find that there was a thread about it

I'm surprised; who the fuck would read that thread?

tho glad I mostly kept off the Whitney threads now.

i will always sb you

http://www.amazon.com/Romance-Writers-Phrase-Book-Perigee/dp/0399510028

added to wish list

not to be all self promotey (because there's nothing to promote) but
Invent interesting metaphors and similies for women's romantic novels.

r.i.p. the phrase "ban cruising"

can we use "flag waving" now?

Do we have confirmation on that Onion attribution? Seems too racist for them.

― Three Word Username, Friday, February 17, 2012 7:12 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's from the onion

― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Friday, February 17, 2012 7:23 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

When?

― Three Word Username, Friday, February 17, 2012 7:29 AM (40 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

from the onions new spinoff, racist onion

― max, Friday, February 17, 2012 7:30 AM (8 seconds ago)

lol in part because, why would the Onion be incapable of racism

Didn't say incapable, it just doesn't seem their style. Would be surprised but not incredulous if it turned out to be from there.

well, google up onion popular baby names and get surprised, then!

racist onion

why you make me cry racist onion...

btw have you guys heard that Pitbull single "International Love" where the only places Chris Brown mentions in the chorus are New York City, Los Angeles and Miami, and he sings them like they rhyme with each other? stay in school kids.

― CANDY aka JUNK (some dude), Friday, February 17, 2012 10:08 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if u want to read other racist things on the internet, 8t07mf70nt is full of it

― Mordy, Saturday, February 18, 2012 7:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

does that say pitchfork

― bnw, Saturday, February 18, 2012 7:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha I meant to post that one earlier.

Edited for brevity. Good long laugh, though.

god. i was dating * briefly * a girl in the fall who was trying to tell me what a great book Fountainhead is.

― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, February 17, 2012 12:37 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

She was into the freaky butt stuff, wasn't she

― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Saturday, February 18, 2012 6:01 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if mlk were alive today he would def have a laser pointer and a headset and the freakeconomics guys would help him figure out new smartphone apps w/ which we can defeat racism

― iatee, Monday, 20 February 2012 16:34 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mlkvalley

"I Am The Resurrection And The Life. No Man Comes To the Father Except By Me. Why Isn't There A White History Month? Mom, update my blog, tell them I'm sick"

― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:13 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...perhaps that needed its context to be funny, not sure (racist crazylady on is this racist thread)

that last sentence just slays me

there was one teenager in america who knew who the libertines was, I met him once

― iatee, Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:26 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha that's the second time I've been excelsiored this week w/ a typo in my post :(

the libertines might as well just be one person for all I know

in high school, my best friend, whose pedantry remains unparalleled, would have told you that "who the Libertines was" is correct & would happily have explained to you why

yeah I guess it's up in the air but it does sound bad

if u want to read other racist things on the internet, 8t07mf70nt is full of it

― Mordy, Saturday, February 18, 2012 7:42 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

does that say pitchfork

― bnw, Saturday, February 18, 2012 7:43 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

echo..

The cast agreed to do the co-ed shower scene only if Verhoeven agreed to direct the scene naked, which he did.[2]

respect

― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, February 21, 2012 12:25 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hahahaha "Don't throw me in the briar patch!"

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, February 21, 2012 12:26 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

beautiful

my bad

and i could vote for that awesome vampire movie that is in alaska in the dark in the snow. loved that one.

me too! think it's called 30 days in alaska or something

― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Tuesday, February 21, 2012 3:27 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

30 Days of Night

― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Tuesday, February 21, 2012 3:27 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nah that's not it

― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Tuesday, February 21, 2012 3:28 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

30 dark days?

― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Tuesday, February 21, 2012 3:28 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The Wicker Man: the game

― Aunt Acid and the Gaviscons (aldo), Tuesday, February 21, 2012 5:27 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark

> there is a burned doll

how'd it get burned

> there is a burned doll

how'd it get burned

> there is a burned doll

how'd it get burned

> there is a burned doll

how'd it get burned

> there is a burned doll

how'd it get burned

> there is a burned doll

how'd it get burned

― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, February 21, 2012 5:50 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that one made my roommate come out and say "clearly something out here is funny"

a+ goole

dying. DYING.

Terminator 2's "I am keeler robot who awnly shewts to vound" makes it the ideal Obamafan action crapper.

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, February 21, 2012 10:08 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there it is

― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, February 21, 2012 10:10 PM (56 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ash wednesday in 2 hours. i've got it marked on my calendar

that's morbius in a pithy, incomprehensible nutshell

xpost

will send u 5000 words 'splainin that, am

lol, no you won't

i wouldn't read it anyhow

he's like a fortune cookie factory staffed entirely by uptight, reactionary lefties