imitation is the sincerest form of fraud

It has come to my attention that my attribution to the Animals of a Nina Simone song was not completely fair.
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And George Harrison imitated the Shirelles
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Likewise, the Dovells imitated the Students
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The Grateful Dead stole (with help from Owsley Stanley and Ken Kesey) Tim Leary’s idea for communal LSD ingestion
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The Gay Movement stole Oscar Wilde’s idea.
No, they stole Krafft-Ebing’s Victorian notion that homosexuality was an ism thing.
No, because Krafft Ebing stole homosexuality from its original inventor, one Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
So put an ism in your jism
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And of course, there’s always
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What, I’m supposed to publish this nonsense?
Why, I’d be immediately accused of making unfair comparisons!
AFTERTHOUGHT: The above could be called a “good skeletal framework.”
Now, if I could just add a few links, and replace the blah blah blahs with some long-winded pronouncements, there might be a Ph.D. in it for some enterprising young idea thief. Or maybe just a little grist for a think tank and ammo for activists…..
(Do I hafta?)
Might as well. But I’ve said absolutely nothing original here.
MORE: Oh, I guess I left out the Declaration of Independence, said by John Adams to have involved plagiarism by Thomas Jefferson.
Wouldn’t wanna copy that idea, would I?
Might get in trouble with the DMCA police.
How unoriginal of me.