My copycats are TOO good...TOO subtle...

[Richardo]

...TOO pointless, I guess.

Ever have a copycat thread get a life of its own as if it were the REAL ORIGINAL thread...?

Check this out:

The original:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=2606476&mesg_id=2606476

The Richardo(c) copycat:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2607206

Note the subtle difference in wording?

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. Once somebody copycatted a thread of mine. My thread got 8

replies...theirs? Something like 2 million gajillion...sigh...

[Reverend_Smitty]

2. wow that is a good one!

[On the Road]

3. You're Right -- It Was Too Subtle

and I missed the first one.

[drumwolf]

4. Yeah, I thought that was pretty funny

The difference in wording between my thread and your copycat was subtle, but the asterisks around the word "draft" in your thread header should have been a clue, along with the MASH reference and the emoticon.

It's pretty funny and revealing how most people will just whiz by and not pick up the telling details.

[Richardo]

5. I added the asterisks in an edit after the confusion became apparent

..to no avail I guess.

Thanks for the props, drumwolf. :hi:

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

6. I have the same problem

One of my copycats will get maybe 5 responses. Someone else's will get 25,000.

At least two people in my life have told me I am completely un-understandable. My best friend in 7th grade wrote in my yearbook, "We've been friends for ages and ages, but I can't understand a thing you say!"

To those who don't "get" me now I respond: "Subtlety is the art of saying something and getting out of the way before it is understood." Wish I knew who said that; it isn't original with me!

[Bullwinkle925]

9. I understand JUST ABOUT everything you say!!

[Anarcho-Socialist]

7. I wouldn't know, I never do copycat threads n/t

[Tafiti]

8. You subtle bastard!

Yeah, you got me. I read it fast, and someone had already replied seriously, so I didn't think twice.

I'll have to watch out for Richardo threads.