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Well said, Willie. I expect the rambler will be here long after I'm gone.

What's the point of getting here early to post your comment, if someone can just change a few words to post the same joke later? Of course he knows it's the same joke, or why would he try to excuse the steal by saying "I thought of it a couple of days ago?"

Re : "You know why the author would say, "I thought of it a couple of days ago?" (which is obviously a lame defense). You know why?...The author is probably sick of the unfair criticism: That "defense" was the author "baiting the piranha." ...."Come and get me," ...and you did.

This is just MORE evidence of the author's superior intelligence. "

Thank you. So happy to hear it. From now on, instead of coming up with my own jokes, I'll just steal other's, dumb them down a bit, say I thought of them ... a full WEEK ago.. wow, imagine how people will be impressed by my "superior intelligence."

We all check the gallery of upcoming photos. Formulate our ideas well in advance. Many times, I've had mine typed out, reworked down to perfection, anxiously following that countdown, refresh as fast as I can, but someone has pipped me at the post with something too similar. So I sadly throw mine away.

Is this what Willie means by "the sporting thing to do?"

Nice work, Tony. This photo garnered some great caps, but yours was dragtastic.

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Naked serial child rapist? UK police, not interested, too busy. WHAT? You say he's not wearing a MASK! Get HIM!!!

Interesting and surprising to learn people don't read through the captions before posting their own. As Willie alluded to, I always do this as a common courtesy. If people all have the same idea, similar captions, surely this site would be duller than fakebook. If a comedian went on stage and repeated the jokes of the previous act, worded slightly differently, nobody would tolerate that, why is it so "confrontational" or "attacking" to encourage and respect originality here?

Also, anonymity affords people the ability to express what society, peer pressure or future attacks hinder. Free speech is never cowardice. Silence is.

".. he's not wearing a MASK!"

Should have said "face diaper" or for those in Ole Blighty "Face Nappy"

You might have missed the point, Glyn. All we're asking for is consideration of others, by reading the captions before you post your own. If there is one that is too similar, think of something else. Most of us do that. They were first, we respect that. It's such a simple concept, why would people argue about it?

Read all the captions for this pic, they're so diverse and creative. Some real laugh out loud originality. All this brouhaha has robbed so many of these great captions of the attention they deserve. Personally I think many of them are better than the one with the current top position. Perhaps some people here vote out of spite?

The discussion on whether or not someone can think up a great idea in a minute, isn't the topic here. Whatever time I'm posting, I read first to see if someone beat me to it with the same joke. Sometimes mine might be better, but it's the same joke, I dump it instead of posting it, because they were first. Of course many of us will have similar ideas on these photos, but if someone else is first, then we are forced to stretch our creativity and come up with something else original, as many here with this pic have.

If the members have no code of ethics or system of honor, what is the point?

And why even have the timestamp?

Let's just get rid of it, if it's meaningless.

Oh boo hoo... let's run & hide because people are trying to intelligently discuss stealing, borrowing, mimicking or coincidentally arriving at the same material. Are we such snowflakes that any discussion "offends" someone?

All this is about is the tiniest consideration, nothing more.

Whether people post "nod to 8:08:08" or whatever form of respect they come up with, otherwise the time stamp is worthless.