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Monday, February 26, 2007

The Day of the Weasel

Suppose you are working for a Weasel like this one. What can I do to help you? Give suggestions, of course, some of which I may have implemented myself.
  1. Plant some malapropisms and look innocent. Obviously, no spellcheck will find them as errors. For example, instead of "he was masticulating looking at the glowing portrait", write "he was master bathing...". (You know what I mean, heh heh!)
  2. Since you have access to your PC as well as the weasel's, accept words like 'teh' and 'fro' in the word processor's dictionary and voluntarily mis-spell 'the' and 'for' from pages n/4 to 3n/4, where 'n' is the total number of pages. Again, spellcheck will not help.
  3. Cultivate spelling mistakes and accept the word processor's correction; this option is often quite hilarious.
  4. Make the document password-protected to everyone except the weasel and yourself. This will be a perennial annoyance for all readers and you can truthfully claim that you can open without a password and so can the weasel.
  5. Or, make radical changes, leave some obvious errors or gaps, convert to PDF, send the PDF by e-mail and remain unreachable for a day. I bet your Alexandre Dumb Ass Weasel wouldn't have wouldn't know whow to convert a PDF to an editable format.
  6. The best solution, and the one I have used partially, is the acrostic. Re-phrase the first sentence of each paragraph so that the first letters of the paragraphs spell out your name repeatedly. A month after the paper is public, sue for plagiarism, citing that you always believed that the weasel was using your material and the only surefire way for people to know is to plant your name.
Best wishes.

1 Comments:

  • At 10:07 am, Blogger S. Anand said…

    Great ideas. I am a fan of #6. #5 will boomerang because I am the only who "knows computers" to fix the glitch.

    Sometimes, I let his errors remain. That way it looks like his job.

     

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