Some Charlatan Has Stolen an FN and Passed It Off As His Own....

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December 9, 2008

Some Charlatan Has Stolen an FN and Passed It Off As His Own....

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By The Dude

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So I'm humming along my day, reveling in our wonderful turn of events as a football franchise, wondering how long this euphoria can last, when all of a sudden I find my inbox flooded with some fired up emails. Thanks to alert commenter Chris, we find that some dickbag with access to the internet somewhere in Chicago has a Bears blog called The Monsters of The Midway that basically looks, feels and smells surprisingly exactly like this one. And when we say "exactly," we don't mean it in the "oh, look how similar these two blogs are in the humor and entertainment dept." No, we mean "exactly" as in word for fucking word.

It's tough to tell when exactly or how soon after our stuff goes up that this cumstain decides to pounce on here and run off with our shit like an evil gnome. But he's basically just taking mine and DRK's posts and simply re-posting them with only the team names and team players' names being changed. 'The Dolphins' become 'the Bears,' 'Chad Pennington' becomes 'Kyle Orton,' etc.

It's difficult to see how far back the plagiarism goes, but from a quick scan of this cockrocket's site, it seems that he's been an avid reader (and ripper offer) of FinsNation for at least the past year. Some of his early stuff looks original, but who the fuck knows at this point.

According to the "About" page, the scrotum slapper that runs the blog in question is named Adam Winer, which quite frankly sounds made up. Probably stole it from somebody. No e-mail address is to be found and you have to register to comment on the site.

So, since Adam obviously likes to visit FinsNation, we'd like to extend a personal note to him and him alone:

Hey, Adam

While we're flattered that you'd think us worthy of being a blog that is so entertaining that it should be shared with retard Bears fans the world over, please do us a favor and go get fucked. No, really. Go find a dick to stick in your mouth as soon as possible. And while you're doing that, please feel free to have a second dick lodged all the way up your ass. Maybe all that dick can help you clear your mind so you can, you know, write your own crap, you unoriginal non-contributing shitstain. If that doesn't work, then may we suggest you go to the nearest handsome cab there in Chicago and immediately start blowing the horse. Maybe it can be this one. I'm no scientist but I've been told the medicinal benefits of drinking horse semen really helps clear the mind. Okay, I wasn't really told that, but you should try it anyway. Because it just sounds like something that would suit you, you no good plagiarizing fuckstick. Or, maybe take our advice and not blog. Maybe blogging isn't for you. Maybe you've found yourself hard-up on material. Believe us, we've been there. But whenever we find ourselves with a bit of the writer's block, we slog through it and bang away until something pops in our head. Instead you up and decided to do the next best thing and go all Carlos Mencia on everyone's ass by ripping off someone else's hard work. Because here's the thing, Adam. There is being inspired by and even imitating another person's material, and then there's just blatant stealing. And that's just a line you don't cross unless you want to have your balls chopped off with a box cutter. Or, at the very least, want go through living life as a hack. Don't mean to be an asshole, here. But this site is our baby and we've worked pretty damn hard on it and built up a solid growing community from scratch for it to get ripped off by some hackneyed paint-by-number blogger who roots for a shitty run-of-the-mill NFC North team.

So in closing, we ask that you please cease and desist these shenanigans, or just take up another hobby entirely. Like maybe ratcheting up the jacking off to animal porn from 15 times a day to 30. We figure that might be the way to go since you have so much time to kill throughout the day after taking 28 seconds out of it to cut and paste our shit to your site and then pass it off as your own.

Be well

P.S., We sincerely hope and pray Kyle Orton gets drunk and drives into a cement truck filled with venomous snakes and that Brian Urlacher gets gonorrhea and his dick rots off. Fuck George Halas. Fuck Dick Butkis. Fuck Walter Peyton and Fuck the '85 Bears, who got their asses handed to them by our Dolphins on Monday Night in front of the entire country. And fuck Mike Ditka, the most overrated head coach in the entire glorious history of the NFL.

Tags: first they rip off the wildcat now this, hate to be an asshole but, I'd feel better if Adam was a fan of the Montreal Alouettes, need to copyright my shit, Putty wears Ziggy pajamas, the New Yorker is stealing my ideas, we must protect this house

Discussion

29 Comments on "Some Charlatan Has Stolen an FN and Passed It Off As His Own...."

Posted by JerryD, December 9, 2008 12:41 AM

Now if ole Winer REALLY has BALLS ... he'll copy this piece too!! lol That would be classique!!

Posted by dave, December 9, 2008 1:15 AM

does this mean some chicgo asshat is stealing my awful and sporadic comments as well? What is this world coming to?

Posted by phranchise, December 9, 2008 3:08 AM

I think he even ripped off my comment about Glenn Gould's piano playing the other day!

How F'n classic...
It's kind of great though. I mean we love the Dolphins and follow them but this is our site. I mean they have attacked us PERSONALLY, this is our fight!!!!

I always liked Walter Payton though...
BUT THIS DOUCHEBAG ASS-CLOWN WILL PAY BY FOREVER ROAMING THE EIGHTH CIRCLE OF HELL WEARING A LEAD-LINED GOLDEN GILDED ROBE RESERVED FOR HYPOCRITES AND BLOG THIEVES!

Posted by Best-Seat-In-The-House, December 9, 2008 6:38 AM

Well, since I'm a woman and I just can't let shit go, I went back to the website just now with the intentions of registering and fucking with the said, Adam Winer, but it seems that "TheMonstersoftheMidway.com is currently down" which I find to be really interesting.

That is all.

Posted by Tom-Ass, December 9, 2008 8:37 AM

Very interesting, indeed. Seems this is an issue plaguing more than just FN of late. If you check out Mike Florio's piece written today about another instance here. Maybe Chris Landry writes for TMOTM too? What a douche bag.

Does this mean that Matt Forte is Black Thunder, Rex Grossman is The Robot or that Kyle Orton is dreamy?

Puh-lease!

Posted by rojowill, December 9, 2008 9:31 AM

Wow.... behold the wrath of The Dude. "This will not stand, man..."

I'm just going to give FN credit for every joke I tell at every party from now on. Just in case.

/scared

Posted by rojowill in reply to comment from phranchise, December 9, 2008 9:33 AM

Yea it's pretty bad when the guy rips off blog posts, but when he starts taking the comments, that's just beyond douche. That's off the charts douche.

Posted by Karen, December 9, 2008 9:36 AM

Clearly the universe heard our collective rage and has shut down the TMOTM site. Look at it this way, they were stealing from the best. Doesn't make it right, just makes it understandable.

Keep rockin' the commentary like always, Dude and DRK!

Posted by rojowill in reply to comment from JerryD, December 9, 2008 9:44 AM

LMAO!

#10

Posted by Mooch, December 9, 2008 9:54 AM

"That irreverence , that wit I'd recognize it anywhere. Some charlatan has stolen a Ziggy and passed it off as his own. And I can prove it. Quick Elaine, to my archives!"

LOL!!! LOVE that episode.

I concur with Karen. No worries Dude. I think by now he's figured we're on to him (how can he not think he'd get caught?) and has obviously shut down the site. Or at the very least is deleting the stolen material. It kinda sucks because I wish I could see it for myself. Keep up the great work, you two. Louis CK would be proud. :)

#11

Posted by Finsfan in Boston, December 9, 2008 10:14 AM

Dude....I think that was a little over the line...

....Ditka wasnt THAT bad, was he?....

Keep kicking ass, man. You guys are the balls.

#12

Posted by Dat Roro Kid, December 9, 2008 10:19 AM

Adam needs to die a swift death, mob-style. Too bad it's 'currently down'. Really wanted to see what all this shit was about.

Go Dolphins!!

#13

Posted by Dat Roro Kid, December 9, 2008 10:30 AM

Oh yea, I'm back. Sporadic vacations had me all over the place.

Also, your body DOES NOT recover as quickly once you hit your 30s. Be forewarned joyous 20somethings....

#14

Posted by Brian, December 9, 2008 11:07 AM

If we win the next two and so do the Jets we've got to be flexed into the last Sunday night game. Which would be the first game I'd get to see all year. That would be about as good as it gets.

#15

Posted by NYdolfan84, December 9, 2008 11:49 AM

The only smart move that ass clown has made was shutting down the site. From the sounds of the finsnation foot soldiers were going to flood the blog. Damn, I was kinda looking forward to the battle. I havent handed out a good verbal beating since I stopped going on Mando's blog. It would have been nice to humble the cocky bastard in front of his readers...if he has any.

Oh well now we can concentrate on making the playoffs!!!! Go Phins.

#16

Posted by Sweet Brah, December 9, 2008 11:58 AM

Here's a cache of the site since the coward took it down.

http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:ZVfngDp1YFsJ:www.themonstersofthemidway.com/+monsters+of+the+midway+blog&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

Looks like he just straight up copy and pasted off of FN and you can actually tell what the asshole wrote himself by the poor diction and excessive exclamation marks. Fuck him.

#17

Posted by GOHABS, December 9, 2008 12:28 PM

But he left out my favorite part "Jessica Simpson's Tits in my face." I was gonna mention that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but I thought about it and realized that plagiarism isn't imitation.

#18

Posted by NaturallyCynical, December 9, 2008 12:42 PM

The funny part is I live in a college house with 4 other guys (Go Noles!) all of whom are big football guys. One of them reads that blog. I've seen it on his computer before. I kinda hope he bitches about it being down.

"...lemme show ya something."

#19

Posted by Adam W, December 9, 2008 12:48 PM

Fins Nation,

Please accept my deepest apologies for the plagiarist content on my blog. I am in no way trying to make excuses but as I told The Dude, you guys deserve an explanation. My co-webmaster, co-worker, and good friend who took over daily posting duties nearly a year ago was plagiarizing material from Fins Nation and other sports blogs. I had to find out the hard way last night. Not only am I ashamed and embarrassed for TheMonstersoftheMidway.com, I am ashamed and embarrassed at myself for letting this happen. TheMonstersoftheMidway.com is still my site and I take full responsibility for anything that appears on it. I would like to personally extend my deepest apologies to any blog (mainly Fins Nation) that has been affected by us. Out of respect Fins Nation and any other blog involved, I have removed all material from The Monsters of the Midway since I'm not sure what my former co-webmaster has stolen. By the looks of it, almost everything is verbatim. There are no excuses for what has happened and my site's image has been forever tarnished. There's just no way to restore it. Once again, I am sorry for everything and I honestly hope we can move on from this issue. Regardless, I know I deserve everything being said about me and my blog. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Thanks,
Adam - owner of the The Monsters of the Midway

#20

Posted by Dat Roro Kid in reply to comment from Adam W, December 9, 2008 1:20 PM

Don't know what to say Adam. That's just fucked up. In reading over the cache of the site, that shit was straight up ripped off.

Very fucked...

#21

Posted by Tom-Ass, December 9, 2008 1:40 PM

Adam, if your explanation is truly what happened, that you were shafted by "a co-worker and good friend," then it might be time to not only reassess the friendship but consider having this person step into the light and face the music. Have him man-up, like you did, and post here.

#22

Posted by Coral Gables Dave in reply to comment from Tom-Ass, December 9, 2008 1:47 PM

That Tom, is a kickass idea. And you are a kickass motherfucker. Yea Adam, get your cat-fucker friend on here to apologize to not only us, but you too, if what you say is true.

Welcome back DRK! I thought you died. Glad you're not dead.

#23

Posted by Dat Roro Kid in reply to comment from Coral Gables Dave, December 9, 2008 1:52 PM

Thanks Dave.

I've just been traveling a bit and anything that involves brain activity other than using my right hand to put a drink to my lips is strictly prohibited during vacation.

But I'm back now and we'll be back to our standard dick-joke quotas shortly.

#24

Posted by JerryD, December 9, 2008 1:59 PM

What a lame excuse, the famous SODDI defense used by everyone in prison ... Some Other Dude Did It. That's a trifling LOSER excuse!!

Should have blamed it on his dog & gold fish!! ... they were speaking to him & told him to do it.

#25

Posted by Karen, December 9, 2008 2:55 PM

Adam, your post is appreciated, as is your explanation. Your friend, however, needs to realize the seriousness of his actions. He ruined your reputation and stole some mighty fine writing. TOM-ASS has a good point, though I seriously doubt that your buddy will post an apology. If he's low enough to plagiarize, then he's not gonna apologize for it.

#26

Posted by ADAMS W's FRIEND, December 9, 2008 3:13 PM

Fins Nation,

Please accept my deepest apologies for the plagiarist content on my blog. I am in no way trying to make excuses but as I told [NOBODY], you guys deserve an explanation. My co-webmaster, co-worker, and good friend who [OWNS THE SITE] was plagiarizing material from Fins Nation and other sports blogs. I had to find out the hard way last night. Not only am I ashamed and embarrassed for TheMonstersoftheMidway.com, I am ashamed and embarrassed at myself for letting this happen. TheMonstersoftheMidway.com is still [HIS] site and I [APOLOGIZE] for anything that appears on it. I would like to personally extend my deepest apologies to any blog (mainly Fins Nation) that has been affected by [HIM]. Out of respect Fins Nation and any other blog involved, I have removed [MYSELF] from The Monsters of the Midway since I'm not sure what my former co-webmaster has stolen. By the looks of it, almost everything is verbatim. There are no excuses for what has happened and [THAT] site's image has been forever tarnished. There's just no way to restore it. Once again, I am sorry for everything and I honestly hope we can move on from this issue. Regardless, I know [HE] deserve[S] everything being said about [HIM AND HIS] blog. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Thanks,
ADAMS FRIEND

PS: HAVE ANY JOB OPENINGS?

#27

Posted by NYdolfan84 in reply to comment from ADAMS W's FRIEND, December 9, 2008 3:45 PM

Don't know what to say [ADAM's FRIEND] That's just [A DICK MOVE]. In reading over the cache of the site, that shit was straight up [STOLEN].

Very fucked...

#28

Posted by Best-Seat-In-The-House, December 9, 2008 3:45 PM

Interesting. And also very lame.

Is everyone so forgiving because it's the holiday season??

I do not accept those apologies.

/I guess I AM just a douchebag afterall.