[quote name=\'sshuffield70\' date=\'May 20 2004, 08:07 PM\'] Lemme guess, you used (and probably plagiarized) the Big Bucks special. How blanking creative. Not to mention dumb.
If you're gonna use GSs as a backdrop, use a greater amount of timeline or even the scandals. But to use a single game that a lot of people in high school don't care about is about as asinine as it gets.
Now, I did write a paper in college on game shows. But I didn't use a computer (hell, the Internet as we know it was in its' infancy), and didn't use the Bible. I did, however, use one of the first GS books I ever saw called "Come On Down" published in 1986. Much of my paper was based on it. I was also able to find smaller articles at the time. Oddly enough, Larsen did not come up in that research six years after the incident. Which probably speaks as to how insignificant it really is. [/quote]
Jeez, man, who pooed in your Rice Chex?
Of course he used "Big Bucks" as a jumping off point. You'd have to unless you have a copy of the original airing and seeing as how he's a teen and wasn't alive when it first happened, I'd say it's more likely that he used "Big Bucks" as a source.
He said that 5 minutes of this project was Larsen, so I'd hardly call it plagiarism (especially if it was just the clips from the original broadcast contained therein, but even if he showed a little more and credited it, it's not plagiarism)...and I'd say that you should be very, very careful before you accuse someone of academic dishonesty without ANY proof.
Man, if you didn't like his project, you've made it very clear in this thread. I don't know why, but you have. I happen to think it's original and it's something I probably would have done in high school if I had the stones. I admire his guts.
And where do you get off telling him that it's not something that high schoolers would care about? His job would be to make them care through an interesting presentation. He sounds proud of what he did and he says that the class was interested.
And so what if it's a insignificant footnote in the history of game shows? It's a rare instance of someone with a Vegas-like system beating the game on its own terms. I can certainly see where such a case would make a good report.
So, although I can't and won't demand that you apologize to the OP, I do think you should.
By the way, did you plagiarize your Game Show paper? Was your prof bored? Just wondering.
