So this is how legends start.

[Ixion]

Note the dates . I am awaiting the wikipedia article. And my royalties.


http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showpost.php?p=356080&postcount=6 (http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showpost.php?p=356080&postcount=6)


http://www.motorcyclistcafe.com/forums/showpost.php?p=30973&postcount=10

[jrandom]

Harrumph.

This brazen plagiarist shall be in receipt of harsh words from the Spagthorpe Owners Club forthwith!

[NighthawkNZ]

Note the dates . I am awaiting the wikipedia article. And my royalties.


http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showpost.php?p=356080&postcount=6 (http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showpost.php?p=356080&postcount=6)


http://www.motorcyclistcafe.com/forums/showpost.php?p=30973&postcount=10

Email him and see what he says remember to ask for your royalties, or the copyright courts will be notified

[dipshit]

Yep, bullshit can have a life of its own on the interweb.

[EnzoYug]

Ha, welcome to the internet. Where everything belongs to everyone because no-one owns anything... Now you know how (some) musicians feel about mp3's.

But yeah - he should of dropped a link at the bottom of the page - but at least he didn't pretend he wrote it!

Go work though, it's not a bad read.

[Steam]

How the heck did you find it? I mean, probably google, but what inspired you to search for your own post in the first place?

[Ixion]

I didn't. I was googling Spagthorp generally. I keep my eyes open just in case one should come on the market.

[Big Dave]

Pish. You start a legend and get indignant when folk repeat it.

Futurely email your jottings exclusively to yourself

or

Bridge - over it. :done:

I'm particularly amused when my ads are scanned and re-dealered.
That's art baby.

[Ixion]

I'm not indignant. Amused. I reckon on signing up to a whole bunch of other bike forums an starting a thread about Spagthorp, then linking that to it. I want to see if it can become an Urban Legend like the Zorch.

[Big Dave]

I'm not indignant. Amused. I reckon on signing up to a whole bunch of other bike forums an starting a thread about Spagthorp, then linking that to it. I want to see if it can become an Urban Legend like the Zorch.

I will supply images based on a scott squirrel if required.

I was going to say - but made weirder - but that would be too hard.

[gijoe1313]

Great herd of Heath Robinson's ghost! T'was a good read guv'nor, cor lumma, what clever and infernal contraptions will these motorcycle mendicants make next? :mobile:

[HenryDorsetCase]

I'm not indignant. Amused. I reckon on signing up to a whole bunch of other bike forums an starting a thread about Spagthorp, then linking that to it. I want to see if it can become an Urban Legend like the Zorch.

I'l post it on the cycleworld forum if you like..... along the lines of "I have seen this bike mentioned, and here is a bit of a history, but does anyone know of one I can buy to restore"?

though, being Septics, they might not get it.

[Hitcher]

Rule 1 of plagiarisation: Read what you are stealing to ensure that any incriminating references are removed.

I note that the Twat from Texas was unaware of Rule 1.

[Insanity_rules]

Rule 1 of plagiarisation: Read what you are stealing to ensure that any incriminating references are removed.

I note that the Twat from Texas was unaware of Rule 1.

I'll say.. Good ol plagiarism is alive and well.

[breakaway]

Is it time to organise a forum raid?

[James Deuce]

Oooo, we haven't had a good forum raid in AGES!

[jrandom]

Oooo, we haven't had a good forum raid in AGES!

Forum raid! Forum raid!

:clap:

Can I be the Straight Man?

[pete376403]

Ixion, I hope you're not claiming to have invented the Spagthorpe - I saw references to Spagthorpe years before 2005. I was logging on to rec.motorcycle on usenet when dialup BBS's were all the go - that would be back in '93 or thereabouts.
And FWIW, I do have the Zorch archives, and yes they are still funny.

[Ixion]

Ixion, I hope you're not claiming to have invented the Spagthorpe - I saw references to Spagthorpe years before 2005.

Of course not. Just the article. Everybody knows the Spagthorpe (Or Spagthorp - spellings vary) was invented in the late 1890s by Julian, Lord Spagthorpe. Before even my time.

EDIT: Everybody except Mr SixpackBack, who never did quite get it

[Hitcher]

Is it time to organise a forum raid?

Round up a posse, Kemo Sabe, and let's be off and at 'em!

[Hitcher]

Can I be the Straight Man?

Only if I can be Mr White.

[Insanity_rules]

Round up a posse, Kemo Sabe, and let's be off and at 'em!

Were you in on the one on that american bike stunting website. I started a whole thread on rim jobs in that one! :moon::moon: The yanks didn't know what hit em! BTW I'm so in if we're doing it.