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If ya want me to start this story at the beginning with all the boring junk about my childhood, too bad. In fact, I don’t think this whole story is worth my time, but I’ll tell ya anyway.
It was about three years ago when my old man told us that me and my brothers needed to move out and “Learn something about responsibility.” What a load of junk.
Anyway, we moved out to get our own houses. There were no houses for a million miles, so we built our own houses. My littlest brother built his house out of straw. He was obviously the slow one in the family, because who builds a house out of straw?
Then my other little brother, about a year older than the littlest, built his house out of sticks. He was obviously not too far behind on the slow one award there. I don’t know, there must have been some sort of building supply shortage back then.
Oh, my house. I built it out of bricks. It seems I’m the only one in the whole family that knows how to build a house. I’m no architect, but I sure as heck know how to build a house.
Oh yeah, this one day this big phony wolf comes to my littlest brothers house. “Why would a wolf come to his door?” you say. Well, we’re pigs so that loser probably wanted to eat him.
So anyway the wolf acting all macho says, “Come out little pig or I’ll blow down your house!” So my littlest brother tells him, “Not by the hairs on my chin ya loser!” This really ticked off the wolf, so guess what he did? The wolf blew the whole house down and ate my brother. He probably did this pretty easily; I mean he is full of hot air and all.
So the moron goes to my other brother’s house and does the same thing. I bet this wolf was so hungry he could eat a thousand pigs.
When I heard what the wolf had done, I was ready to beat the stuffing out of him; I didn’t though because I’m a pacifist and all.
Then the wolf decides to come to my house. So he comes to my door with his phony “Blow your house down” bit. Ya know what I told him. I said, “Stuff it, ya loser!” So he tries to blow down the house, but he couldn’t cause its made out of bricks.
Ya think he’d give up then, but he didn’t. He climbed up on my roof and jumped down the chimney. This wolf obviously wasn’t much smarter than my brothers, because anyone could’ve seen the smoke coming out of the chimney. Anyway that wolf burned like a madman and died.
Oh, ya want a moral. Don’t build a house out of straw or sticks; build it out of bricks.

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Fazumzen Fastfist had this to say about Optimus Prime:
Gee, could that first passage have been more COPIED from the Catcher in the Rye?

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Duh... I think you missed the joke there...

He was rewriting the "Three Little Pigs" story in the style of "Catcher in the Rye." Minus the profanity. That was the assignment, to rewrite an existing story in that style.

So no, it's not plagiarism, anymore than any "Weird Al" Yankovic parody is plagiarism of songs. The story was basically a parody of Holden Caufield's cynicism and such.

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Troodon had this to say about pies:
Duh... I think you missed the joke there...

He was rewriting the "Three Little Pigs" story in the style of "Catcher in the Rye." Minus the profanity. That was the assignment, to rewrite an existing story in that style.

So no, it's not plagiarism, anymore than any "Weird Al" Yankovic parody is plagiarism of songs. The story was basically a parody of Holden Caufield's cynicism and such.

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Fazumzen Fastfist had this to say about (_|_):
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Therein lies the problem with internet communication... joking and sarcasm isn't quite obvious (that's what emoticons are for! ). My apologizes if I took seriously something you meant as a joke.

My brother said someone in his class did this same thing with Cinderella, and it was hilarious! Wish I could get a hold of that one too.