It's Like Deja Vu All Over Again*

UPDATE:

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?

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Today's edition of OH, HELL NO news, linked to by Jezebel.com and discovered by alert reader Kim, comes to you from the lovely underpants model/Brody Jenner paramour Cora Skinner:

Please enjoy these selections from Cora Skinner's Eight Rules for Dating

2.  I am not a great listener, although I might appear to be.  Sure, I may be nodding and saying, "Mmm hmm," but usually I'm just trying to think of a way to steer the conversation back to being about me.

8.  There will be occasions when you breathe too loudly for my liking.  Ditto on the chewing.

Funny, right? 

Yeah, that's what I thought when I wrote them.  (See Bitter Is the New Black, page 160 for a complete list of the Jen Commandments.)

However, before we go all Dick Cheney on this girl, let's give her the benefit of the doubt.  Maybe she's a nice kid and a fan and doesn't understand the legality of attributing copyrighted work.  I've pinged her on MySpace and asked her to either credit me or remove the text.

And if she doesn't, then maybe we'll have a grudge-match on pay-per-view. 

(FYI, smart money's on the fat, bitter, forty-year-old.)   

*Which is a Yogi Berra quote.  Which I mention because I don't swipe other people's words.

Comments

[megalo98]

Oh no, Jen - you need to take her down. Besides any woman who dates a man who says that the woman he is dating states his best quality is his "bedroom abilities" needs to be educated. Now.

[Robin]

Poor dumb girl. Maybe we should set up a charity -- Words for Dumb but Pretty Girls? -- to help them be funny and/or smart in writing without having to stoop to plagiarism.

[Jamie]

As an attorney, I can tell you that you have a rock solid case!

[Mary]

I am extremely angry that someone would do this to your words....maybe its just because when I first read the jen commandments I couldn't help but think....holy crap..that's me!!!!.....but I never reposted your words...I only directed people to that part of your book when they began questioning why I treat my girlfriend the way I do (the loving,caring,supportive,never jump to conclusions way I do)....anyway...I figure if I know that taking your words and trying to pass them off would be unethical as well as mean....(plus anyone who knows me would totally know I didn't write it cuz I am not nearly creative or funny enough)....then little miss pinhead should know better....please jen..please take her down...I need some more funny in my life...and I bet that? would be the best kind of funny ever!!!

[Becca]

Ok I just read that Jezebel webpage where she says she hates "fatties." What the hell is she referring to? I dont think I even want to know. She seems like a total stuck-up bitch to me. She is the type of person I enjoy watching get old. It must suck to get old when that's what you looked like "back in the day." Take her down!!!!

[Lisa Ann]

I say nail her. She took your work word-for-word, not even attempting to paraphrase or "hide" the inspiration. Total BS! If she couldn't form an original rule, then she should have properly quoted yours and given props where props are due. (BTW You inspired me with the New Years Resolution blog, and I made damn sure to note that inspiration.)
Plagiarism is not responsible blogging and those who do it should be held accountable. It's your hard work and effort and no one should be allowed to free-ride off of it. (Off the soap box now)
(On a personal note, her web site/my space was such narcissism that I thought I was going to hurl.)

[kim]

She's a total charmer. She also notes that on a VH1 special she'll be "modeling lingerie Britney Spears bought (in a smaller size)." Vapid. Skank. I didn't think anything could lower my view of Brody Jenner. Well played, Cora. Well played.

[Jeannine]

Oh no she didn't! I was just reading that page today as a matter of fact.

But I guess with any luck she'll come to her senses and realize that her unfortunate incapability of creative and independent thought doesn't negate the sheer uncoolness of straight-up plagiarism (not to mention the illegality). She sucks.

[Tristan]

Nail that skinny bitch to a wall! Clearly she wasn't schooled on plagiarism.

[Danielle]

People like that always make me secretly wish they suffer some horrible disfigurement so that they'll know how it feels to be one of the less "perfect" looking people, what a biatch this stuck up little classless girl is.

May the crabs of a thousand Paris Hilton's infest her vajayjay.

[Beth]

If you do take Skank-o-rama to court, I'm sure that would give you fodder for another book!

[sweetney]

OH HELLS NO is right!

"Maybe she's a nice kid and a fan and doesn't understand the legality of attributing copyrighted work."

dude, you are a fucking SAINT. PLEASE let us know what you hear back!

[Suzy]

Take her down. Hard. Her last one is also very similar with her "you should enjoy moving furniture"

Jay Leno just won a lawsuit against Judy Brown, a woman who wrote 19 books off other people's jokes. She had to pay out hundreds of thousands of dollars. And in the book, she attributed the jokes to the right owners but didn't ask for permission!!

My attorney told me the fastest field of lawsuits is in IP work, mainly because of the web.

[Kari]

Everytime someone asks me what an asshat is I say "Ask Jen." They look at me a little funny until I go into the whole story about the day I discovered your first book. Long live Jen!

P.S. Take her down most definitely!

[Heide]

Take her down... I can't wait to see her cry.

[Jenny]

Poor stupid little girl doesn't even know what she's gotten herself into... all she had to do was include a little note that said "these words were originally written by someone MUCH smarter (and funnier! and classier!) than I."

[Melissa]

I'm guessing that there was already another cease and desist against part of this plagiarized piece. When it ran at postchronicle.com, it was "The Ten Commandments of Cora Skinner."

[Squeaky Wheel]

Skin her alive, Jen. Two reasons:

1. It's not nearly as funny coming from someone with a MySpace photo like THAT ("hey, i'm perfect, and i'm a bitch, too!")

2. It's blatant plagiarism, word-for-word, with no credit. In research, it can get you stripped of your credentials. In law, it can get you disbarred. Here? She should at least have to cry and mess up her mascara. Oh, and pay you a lot of money.

[Jane]

Who the F is Cora Skinner? She's a hag that's semi-famous for dating a D lister, oh hell, Z lister......

And she rips off the Jenn comandments.....

Hell to the NO!

[Little Miss Detroit]

I like where she requests that she wishes someone would shot (sic) Tyra Banks. Not that I'm hardcore Tyra or anything, but "shot" her? Please. And who are you to denounce a successful supermodel, Ms. I Wear Panties For A Living?

[Lisa Ann]

I'm sorry, but I just have to comment about this again. Take the bitch down. It takes a ton of work to blog - even more if you do it professionally and the fact that she blatantly plagiarized is just chapping my @$$. She offers nothing more than a vapid waist of space that is taken up by a fluke in the genetic lottery. Personally anyone who's only claim to fame is that she is screwing some guy on the D-List and has to take her clothes off to make an impression is low on my "Oh Please Reproduce" scale.
Again, I am sorry for double posting but I spent five hours working on my last post and that was just the editing (& I don't get paid nor am I a professional writer) and this just pisses me off to no end.

[Karina in T.O]

Hello??!! I'm voting for going all Sicilian on her skinny ass and cutting her off at the knees, not that I'd ever advocate violence against the stupid, but wow, I can't belive this vapid, mental mutant would even dare....

And now that I think of it, since when is any girl that's shagging Brody "I'll never have a legit job" Jenner think it appropriate to give any kind of dating advice to the masses??? Ugh! She should be giving advice on where the best free clinics are!

[Tami]

I say we just go into her MySpace and let her have it...a group take down! Just give the word and we'll GO! Of course, if you're hoping to sneak up on the bimbo with legal voodoo...we'll wait!

[kalisa]

what a fucking loser. Take her down. She doesn't deserve to even read your stuff, much less steal it. She obviously gets away with TOO MUCH in her life as it is. Don't give her this freebie.

[Rebecca]

Let her have it, Jen. Take her down.

Because, TO QUOTE YOU..."Oh, hell, no!!!"