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I wish I could open that. Cmooooon uncap net plox...

[quote="GUTCHUCKER"][quote="Edminster"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqp_0B3zq1E[/quote][/quote]

[quote="Edminster"]I'd like to hurf notion durf SMBC is not funny durf herf der. I would herf derf de SMBC derp called a joke.[/quote]

[quote]I'd like to challenge the notion that SMBC is comprised largely of jokes. In fact I would go so far as to say that very few SMBC comics can be called a joke.[/quote]

We take our dick jokes seriously o'er 'ere, stranger.

I'd like to challenge the notion that SMBC is comprised largely of dick jokes. In fact I would go so far as to say that very few SMBC comics can be called a dick joke.

Aw snap! Did (s)he just incite rule 12-2?

[quote]He took a simple idea that already existed (whether he was aware of it or not doesn't really matter) and created a new idea from it. I hate to break it to you, but that's actually how creativity works. There's no such thing as completely original ideas, it's all just people building on what's come before.[/quote]
I'm aware that's how creativity (usually) works. I thought that given the title of the thread (i.e. zach is unoriginal) you folks would recognize that my post was not meant to be a slight against Zach's considerable creative talents, but to point out, as you said, that his idea was not completely original. I happened to notice that the idea for the day's comic had been used before, and thought that this thread seemed like the right place to point that out.

[quote]You know what? Maybe when people tell us how unoriginal Zach is, we should link to the millions of other people who've said the same thing. To show them how original they are, yes?[/quote]
It seems like it should be pretty clear to anybody posting in a thread called "zach is unoriginal" that they were not the first to notice his work occasion contains themes that existed before he used them. So your idea seems a bit redundant to me. My goal was not to be original, I mistakenly assumed that this thread was meant for posts similar to mine.

Y'all take things pretty seriously for members of a forum based on a comic made up largely of dick jokes.

[quote="Sahan"]I did the same thing, when I thought I had stumbled upon band-name pun gold with Apocalipstick, but then google showed me I was quite late to the party.[/quote]

This happened with me username here.
Upon search (after having used this username for a number of months) I found out that a band had this name (albeit a relatively local name).
Since then (I think), Boondocks used it as a name for a fictional rapper on the show (maybe the 'toon as well).

I did the same thing, when I thought I had stumbled upon band-name pun gold with Apocalipstick, but then google showed me I was quite late to the party.

Could have simply been a case of cryptomnesia.

Every time I think I think I've thought of something new, I do a quick Google to check if it's already been done. Case in point: [i][url=http://www.smbc-comics.com/smbcforum/viewtopic.php?p=128630#p128630]vampirates[/url][/i].

About five years ago when I was plotting zany characters for a book I wrote down some notes for a old British gentleman ninja called Frank. Several months ago I buy Shadow Hearts: From the New World (released in 2005 iirc) and what do I find but an elderly British chap who was trained in the ninja arts in Brazil by a talking Chinese cat. Oh and his name is Frank.

Moral of the story is smiley_cow and Lethal Interjection are correct.

[quote="smiley_cow"]. There's no such thing as completely original ideas, it's all just people building on what's come before.[/quote]

This is true. And it offends some people.
But we aren't grown in test-tubes and emerge with full cognition and completely unbiased learning.
Even if you've never heard Mozart, you are still growing up in a society where that is part of the culture, and Mozart has informed some who've informed others who've informed still others, and so on.
And music is a bad example as the correlation is oftentimes very obvious.
I can think of a number of times that I've had "original" thoughts, only to find so-and-so said it X years ago. And they were original, to a degree. It might make me momentarily sad that I wasn't the start, but it usually ends with "Damn, I had the same conclusion* as that revered person, without having even known their stuff? F'in right!"

[size=50]*This usually has to do with philosophical/theological stuff with me. Like when I wrote a paper on a theorist who I disagreed with, but couldn't really nail down why. Light-bulb moment! I figured out why, and doing some more research for the paper, found out that Dooyeweerd had the same issue/response with another group (who must've ultimately informed the contemporary theorist). And that extra resource to back up my claim definitely helped my grade. And that, friends, was my favourite educational moment of university. [/size]

He took a simple idea that already existed (whether he was aware of it or not doesn't really matter) and created a new idea from it. I hate to break it to you, but that's actually how creativity works. There's no such thing as completely original ideas, it's all just people building on what's come before.

Basis is from a dilbert comic several years ago, about spinning in their graves due to poor policy and generating power.