RE: Stereotypes (WAS: what to look for in a Tech Editor)

["Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net>]

"Kat Nagel, MasterWork Consulting" <mlists -at- masterworkconsulting -dot- com> wrote:

>"You know, those things at <name of big builders' warehouse> that go 
>"zip" when they move and "bop" when they stop, and "whirr" when they 
>stand still, and get you your eighty-seven 14-foot-long two-by-fours 
>and 200 toggle bolts and a screwdriver all by themselves without a 
>driver.  
>-- 
>Kat Nagel,
>with apologies to Tom Paxton
>

That, folks, is a nice example of literary allusion and, AFAIK, is covered under fair use (or maybe under the parody doctrine, which may or may not be a special case of fair use but I don't know because IANAL). In any case, it isn't plagiarism, because Kat is explicitly giving credit to the putative original author.

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