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Say What?!

Posted January 30th, 2006 in News by M

The straw that broke the camel’s back was the first thing I saw when I opened my inbox this morning, and I’m irritated enough to postpone today’s post, Cabinet Tales IV.

Last week I received a link to an blog that posted user contributions. When I opened this link I saw this:

My memory may not be the best, but I racked it and it informed me that the columnist’s thought processes were remarkably like my own, so much so that he managed to mirror the thoughts I expressed in the same post

Well, I followed it up with the owner of the blog who was appalled and promptly deleted the post. And so I thought the matter was at rest until I received the same thing in my email as a forward, “By Victor Komanyo”.

So to cut a long story short, and save me from unnecessary emails:

1) I am NOT Victor Komanyo
2) I’m amazed that Victor Komanyo would think that he can get away with this kind of thing in this day and age
3) If you know him, or better yet if you are him, raise your right hand in the air and smack your fat head
4) The next time you try this kind of thing, Victor, you might want to at least reorder the paragraphs, change the wording, etc..

Kelis – Good Stuff
  • Wangu

    M, I think you should raise your right hand and smack every plagiarist’s big fat head. Ever thought of getting copyright for your blog?

    Not really — putting some text on a page will not disable copy and paste …

    Your articles are great … don’t let people get away with this sort of thing.

  • Ni2

    At a loss of words.

    Will post later… hopefully I will have something to say then

  • http://www.kenyanmusings.blogspot.com KM

    First things first;
    - I am third..yaaayy!!

    - why does your blog keep forgetting me? Tebu!

    - Your only way out is to go into publishing some articles in the dailies. Give it a shot, c’mon!!

    Still haven’t figured out who I’m supposed to sleep with / give national park to/ bribe yet

    - Are people this thick to think they will never be found out for stealing people’s articles?

    - My gawd! what has become of journalism…or lack of them….the dude even dubbed word for word the ‘you go girl’! How lame…. LOL, like those guys in primary school who would copy your test and write your name instead of theirs…LMBAO

    - Sorry dude…

    It’s all good … what can I say — infamy at last!

    -P.S Me i donno that Victor dude…..jus so you know.

  • http://prousette.blogspot.com Prousette

    Ashindwe kabisa Victor Komanyo wherever you are. You know some of us know people, who know people who have slept with people very high up, and could make your blogging, and life pretty miserable.
    You have made us miss cabinet tales so collectively not very happy with you. Shame!!

    @M I know you are not Victor! Could we have cabinet tales now please….

    Well … :-?
  • Shiroh

    Ashindwe huyo Victor, now look we can’t even have cabinet tales post. Those guys from primo who used to dub it seems that dumbness never goes away. Ashindwe

  • bankelele

    Pole.

    Kenyan Pundit pointed me out to a plagiarist who had lifted my blog. I got in touch with him, and he stopped right there.

    Looks like we have our own resident Nancy Drew :D She tracked down this one too!
  • kashosho

    OMG!! he copy and pasted ur blog and got that on the papers??
    lol…. u need to write to his boss and get his paycheck this month that mess is plain wrong.

  • http://www.guessaurus.com Guess

    (Aghast) – well, the man calls himself a freelance journalist – tihihi – I think he should change that to freeloader plagiarist…

    Pole dude

    On a different note: You promised that the next post would be the answers to “Ask M” – why the procrastination? :(

    Well … some of the more recent posts had very small windows and some could just not wait…. So now on the horns of a dillemma. Do I post Cabinet Tales IV or Ask M? :-/
  • http://www.sidaki.blogspot.com sidaki

    LOL.

    He he. Well, you know what they say about imitation.

    Oddly enough in some way i’m flattered!
  • http://nakeel.blogspot.com Nakeel

    SHAME on that Victor Kamonya and let him hide his A** kabisa which school did he go to know the meaning of the copyright sign? Should sue him and am very much sure Shiroh or its Kidada will come in here to save..
    He must be the people who dubbed everything as it was in shule..

  • http://chrenyan.wordpress.com Chrenyan

    It’s true that imitation is the best form of flattery. So if there’s a bright side to be found in this, be flattered my boy, be flattered. It is inevitable that many of us who read your blog think “My, I wish I could do that.” Some of us, it seems, take their longings a step too far…

    And now I must join my voice strongly with that of Guess, thus:

    1. Promise to post answers to “Ask M”.
    2. Promise to deliver a brand new constitution in 100 days.

    Same difference!

    My good man, we wait with bated breath for you to put distance between yourself and our President. ;)

    =)) Ouch!!!!
  • Wangu

    @ Prousette

    I agree with u on the “collectively not happy with you”. Let’s go look for him, then raise our hands and smack his big fat head!

    Or better yet, get his primary school teacher to write on his blog:

    “I will never copy someone’s blog and pretend it’s mine again” 100 times.

  • Wangu

    Sorry, get his teacher to make him write the lines

  • http://mochalicious13.blogspot.com Mocha!

    And I thought I was lazy, kumbe somebody somewhere is getting paid for it! Shame on them. What a NGOMONGO that Victor person is.

    I know you are reading this you HINDIOT………get a life and shame on you!

  • I

    M, look on the bright side, this plagiarisim is a compliment.. is thier way of saying you are the best!

    There’s that …
  • msaniixl

    The level of moronic behaviour some people stoop to..every damn word? *smh* in disgust

    Get on that cabinet Tales post..

    Iko, iko!
  • http://www.gukira.blogspot.com Keguro

    M, I am not Victor. But I often itch to “borrow” from your writing. This desire does not make me a bad person. Merely a good judge of quality.

    I’m still waiting to be plagiarized. I think it will make my day.

    You’re well on the road friend!
  • http://brotherjero.blogspot.com/ Brother Jero (BJ)

    SIku za Victor ni arubaini. Some originality and tact are crucial aspects to the success of a writer and since you seem to lack both, dude why don;t you just implode with shame and take a break from planet earth. Simply not cool.

    Are you man enough to apologize? I doubt but this would help your credibilty somewhat.

    Over to you Victor.

  • http://www.ntwiga.net/blog Ntwiga

    M, I am not Victor. But I often itch to “borrow” from your writing. This desire does not make me a bad person. Merely a good judge of quality.

    I’m still waiting to be plagiarized. I think it will make my day.

    Have to agree with Keguro here.

    Consider it a compliment that they choose to plagiarize your work. LIke John Milton said, “About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.”

    I also await the day that my work will be deemed good enough to steal.

    :-?
  • http://kenyaninuk.blogspot.com Kenyangal

    I googled this Victor Komanyo and the only listing was on that blog where his post was deleted. I suppose he hasn’t been doing too much writing then. Well as others have said, the good thing is that when someone plagiarizes you it sort of confirms your status as a thinker/writer :)

  • http://kenyaninuk.blogspot.com Kenyangal

    oooooooooo i can actually see me smiley faces on this blog!! :) :( :o

  • http://whisperinginn.blogspot.com Whispering Inn

    Sad, sad, sad!
    Obviously, you don’t subscribe to the notion that plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery…. However, you might wanna come to grips with the fact that it’s gonna happen over and over again. People have a habit of reaping where they have not sown. Having said that, I, too, am NOT Victor Komanyo.

    A looming threat is not so looming any more
  • http://haidhuru.blogsome.com Mutumia

    Victor Pole sana, I mean, ‘the artist never known as Victor’ aka the mysterious M.

    I’d like to apologize to you and any libel I may have caused. See I got a forwarded e-mail msg of your blog entry (photos and all) and I was like “Hata wewe M!!! Si nilisoma ile blog. Na nakiacha comment pia. Mbona kuanza this story of “Please forward this e-mail to at least 10 of your friends and St. Jude says we will have GDP growth percapita of 2%. If you don’t, we will have recurring electricity shortages”?

    I was so peeved.

    Only to find out, you were not the culprit.

    Aki woiye- pole sana.

    Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

    *writing on the blackboard kama Bart Simpson*
    “I will never slander M. again”X 100

    Come one M, this is ME?! Would I do that? Sawa tu. :((
  • http://magaidi.com/diary magaidi

    M, I think he thought he’d lose you by not posting the pictures. LMAO!
    Can I offer to raise my right hand this high (holding hand, with jar to boot, above head) and smack Komanyo?

  • http://udi-m.blogspot.com Udi

    LOL. Yenyewe some people have issues. but its all ngravy. when u start reading ur own post in an Email Fwd, thats when you jua you have fikad.

  • http://www.ajkenswi.blogspot.com Adrian

    it wasn’t me!

    laughing at the guy imagining some of his friends finding out from where he stole the awards.

  • acolyte

    As the saying goes “imitation is the most sincere form of flattery” so the fact that you are being imitated means that you are doin some good work but does not at all justify it.In uni we had this thing called “the remix” where you took someone’s paper but remixed those words so well and the formatting that it was a whole new paper or close to it by the time you were done.This Victor kubaff should have done that but anyway many freelance journalists in Kenya have no morals nor the intlelligence to learn this technique.Bring on the cabinet tales!!!!!!

    Dude, WE INVENTED THE REMIX (Pun intended). From one master copy our class would submit genius that had nothing in common with the original
  • gqdup

    M, i have a lead on this prick, also goes by the name y5next the bafoon has a Bsc,Msc and doctorate in “copying and pasting”……..a thorough beating will rectify this behaviour! all the best.

  • Ni2

    Im still shocked!

  • Mo

    Guess victor just lacked self restraiant.But M, if your blog is so good you cant blame him for trying to be like you (when he grows up) maybe he thought he would get more people checking out his blog. Ha! fat chance

  • mruhya

    Stinks! why couldnt the brotha just say he got the post from somewhere, liked it so much that he decided to “borrow” it??

    but having said that, I believe us keyans bring this on ourselves – i mean how many learning institutions photocopy books and distribute these to students, how many use pirated software, download music from the net etc?

  • Ni2

    @mruhya

    So if I photocopy books and use pirated software Im in the same boat as a plagerist?

  • WGK

    @Ni2, in very, very brief, you’re in the same boat. Never assume creation – whether writing, or software, or whatever, is yours to use as you wish. Pay for it. Or if you don’t, acknowledge the fact, and don’t mind if we call you names.

  • http://www.madkenyanwoman.blogspot.com/ W.M.

    Oh hell no, he didn’t!
    What, again?
    This becomes somewhat tedious. Ashindwe! He burned you like an illicit DVD, or like the way we used to copy homework in high school, where you are copying so hard you even copy the other person’s name!
    And the wicked shall flourish like the bay tree (or was it an olive tree…?)

    On the other hand, M, mindful of a comment of yours I recently read on mental’s blog and another long-ago one on my own blog..er, do you have any other personalities that we should know about? Do you experience moments of blackout and upon awakening do not recognise the blog you are writing in? Has mail ever come to you addressed to “Victor K”? Are you contemplating extensive plastic surgery and subsequent entrance into the political blogger protection programme? If the answer to these questions is yes, well…….

  • TeeJ

    This kumanyo…I mean Komanyo dude should be ashamed. He obviously didn’t see what happened the last time Clay M plagiarized your work. Yani your fans got your back big time dude! :-)

  • Ni2

    @WGK
    I disagree. Photocopying books (without permission) and Illegally copying software leans more towards piracy… not plagairism. But I agree that both are in the same boat in terms of breaking a law or two but its not the same thing.

    Now Im not defending this Victor joker! Absolutely NOT! Guy cost the delay of Cabinet Tales IV post. I could lead a posse to “string him up” for the injustice he has caused.

  • mlevi

    all i have to say is “haha” (Nelson from Simpson style laugh)

    but dude arent you used to this now?

  • eclipse

    M…if u ever get this guys’whereabouts just holla at me…will do the rest on my own!

  • eclipse

    this still hurts in my head…such blatant disregard and disrespect…..trully appalling!

  • Ni2

    @Eclipse

    Hey where have you been? Do I get to watch when you do get the guy?

  • eclipse

    have not been myself for last few weeks…..have bin suffering from “crainte d’être seul” but ama bounce back! yeah bein in the bad moon im in it aint gon be pretty when i come face to face with this victor bugger!!!!!

  • Irena

    Haiya Wizi in the daylight…….

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