Remember that part in the Bible when Brian Harrod had all the babies murdered? That was uncool.

No, I believe you are thinking of King _Herod_. King Herod was the guy who killed all the babies in the Bible. Brian Harrod is different; Brian Harrod is a man with a Google+ page who keeps plagiarizing comments from this website.

No, Meme is right, I looked it up on Wikipedia.

Wait, what? I'm confused. I just checked your source, and this is what I found:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_the_Great#New_Testament_re ferences
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Herod appears in the Gospel according to Matthew (2:1-23), which describes an event known as the Massacre of the Innocents. (...) When Herod realized he had been outwitted, he gave orders to kill all boys of the age of two and under in Bethlehem and its vicinity.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=brian+harr od
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The page "Brian harrod" does not exist. You can ask for it to be created, but consider checking the search results below to see whether the topic is already covered.
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someone must have vandalized that page.....

No, it doesn't show up on the Brain Harrod deletion log, either. Take a look:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/delete& page=Brian_Harrod


OZ must be mistaken.

The Wayback Machine has it.

https://web.archive.org/web/19991008013724/http://www.goatse.c x/

That's the wrong website, and yes, I checked the Wayback Machine already. It's not there.

EvilHomer, don't you know the difference between wikipedia and WIKIPEDIA?

A SOVERIGN CITIZEN taught me this.


Whoops, I meant THIS.

In ancient Hebrew, Herod and Harrod have the exact same spelling, as does Brian and EvilHomer.

>> In ancient Hebrew, Herod and Harrod have the exact same spelling

Well yes, OK, that much is true. "Harrod" and "Herod" would have both been rendered as [חרד].

But so what? "Harrod" and "Herod" are still two completely different people! First, we have numerous sources attesting to this fact, and no sources suggesting that Brian Harrod of Stamford, Connecticut, was even alive prior to the 20th century, let alone in Judea at the time of Jesus' birth. Second, the earliest attestations we have for the Gospel of Matthew are written in Greek, not Hebrew; while modern scholars tend to agree that the very first editions of that particular gospel were written in Hebrew, Matthew, like the rest of the Bible, was to become a predominately Greek (i.e. Roman) document within a few centuries. I'm being pedantic with this particular sub-point, I know, but it's still important to keep in mind, as any modern confusion would likely stem from Greek text, not Hebrew. And third, I guess I need to point out that Jews did not utilize familial surnames until the 10th century (for Spanish Sephardic Jews) or the 18th century (for Northern and Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews). Around the year 1 CE, a Jew named "Brian Harrod" would have simply been known as "Brian" - perhaps "Brian ben Harrod" - and if he were a king, he (like all kings, Jewish or otherwise) would have utilized his given name for all things, formal or not - he would have been known as King Brian [מלךברנ], not King Brian Harrod [מלךברנהרד]. AT BEST, you could argue that a "Brian ben Harrod" [ברנבנהרד] might well have been Brian, _the son of_ King Herod! That's at best; for all we know, Brian ben Harrod may have been the son of a rabbi, a cobbler, or even a farmer named Herod. Given the absence of any historical evidence, I don't see why we'd want to make the assumption that our friend Brian was actually a prince and the son of the Biblical King Herod.

But by all means, call Giorgio Tsoukalos; I'm sure they'd make a History Channel documentary all about this stupid conspiracy theory of yours.



>> as does Brian and EvilHomer.

EvilHomer: [ולהמר]. Or [יצרחרהמר], if we use the Hebrew word for evil. Compare to Brian: [ברנ]

Not the same.

Here:

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Do it, I dare you. Get in touch with them, tell them all about how you think Brian Harrod of Stamford Connecticut tried to kill the baby Jesus, and ask that a documentary crew look into it.

I think you're ignoring the real problem here. Since Brian Harrod is a Biblical figure, he must be thousands of years old.

We may not be able to stop him. What if he's an immortal!?

Also, that's modern Hebrew, wrong characters.

Doesn't matter; with one or two exceptions modern Hebrew characters are visually very close to, and with no exceptions are directly cognizant with, their ancient Hebrew counterparts:

http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/28_chart.html

The reason I use modern Hebrew characters is simply because my keyboard does not support the ancient Hebrew typeset; if yours does, then by all means rewrite the names provided, and you'll see that they remain different.


>> Since Brian Harrod is a Biblical figure, he must be thousands of years old.

This is incorrect. From a purely historical standpoint, it is most unlikely that ANY of the figures in the Bible lived to be thousands of years old, if they even existed at all. And yet, even if we were to accept the now-discredited theory of extreme Biblical longevity, it still wouldn't apply to King Herod - Methuselan lifespans were alleged to have been an antediluvian trait. All sources agree that after Noah and the Flood, human lifespans settled down into something close to what we know today.

All the more reason to be worried. A thousand year old person is not normal, could be aliens (also in the Bible).

Also, your scholarship is lazy, otherwise you would obviously see that a banana with a third leg (aleph) looks nothing like a cow head (aleph). By your own admission "then by all means rewrite the names provided, and you'll see that they remain different."

They remain different.

You just EvilHomered yourself, further proof you are Brian Harrod, the senile Alzheimer immortal.

LWW!

or maybe, BHWW (Brian Harrod Wing Watch)

Oh shit, wait a minute... BHWW? Could it be?!?!

Let's all try and discover which one of us is secretly Harrod.

We all know it's you, Homer.

I'm glad you caught that.

I tried to contact The Internet Police but their websites are down for the USA and the EU. This means we're dealing with a master hacker here, not just a run of the mill comment thief.

duhn Duhn DUHNNNN!!!!

This is the most attention we've gotten in a decade.

I think of it as an opportunity to freely advertise poeTV on his + page in the guise of a stern talking to. If some of his subscribers show up here and buy some wolf urine, the poeLords get paid.

I look at it as an opportunity for a half dozen jaded old Internet burnouts to have fun feigning outrage over for a day or two.


Although, there actually IS mounting legal precedent for joke theft being a crime punishable by post deletion:

http://tinyurl.com/q875586

Although that's just encouraging the DMCA, and it doesn't need any encouragement.

Yeah, we're better than the DMCA. Don't let's go to the dogs tonight.

um..... really? because DMCA = bad, then someone can steal dozens of jokes from here and readily monetize them if he isn't already? Plus, there are probably ways that he could monetize his crap without it being apparent from the outside. He has 11,000 followers on G+.

We're going to follow some bs anarcho-hacker principles before basic stand-up-comic/fuck-you-I-made-that principles??

He's not even stealing from me (like 1 joke that I didn't care about). He's stolen dozens of pretty good (clean) jokes from like 10 people on here, and even after Hooker(?) caught him the first time.

Mamby-pambys.

Hackers > Stand-up comics.

Always.

Sorry if Brian Harrod's intellectual property theft means that you can longer buy that solid gold swimming pool, Lars.

just like you to come out on the dumb side of this, and have me wonder if you're trolling or not and whether you know if you are

How much money have you lost to Brian Harrod's sinister predations, exactly? Feel free to include lost productivity due to emotional stress and trauma, if you like.

$Joke-theft,000,000.00

Brian Harrod, is it true you live in a van down by the river?

...and does your head really resemble an overcooked potato after being dropped on the tile floor?

I was checking his site periodically and this is his first plagiarism since we made a fuss about it.

Which is the one we're talking about? I guess I'm a little miffed that he took my "decline of western civilization" tag and turned it into a hashtag, because that's pretty obvious (kind of like how he took my typo) but the hashtag thing is kind of small peas to me. Hell, it's not like I came up with the phrase, and I doubt the director of The Little Rascals did either (seriously Penelope if you're reading this, this could be your "Dig!").

True story, years ago I was watching Tosh.0 (yes, though to be fair I was at a bar and it was on with captions) and I swear that there was a joke that was paraphrased from some video comment on here. I can't remember which one of if I just made it up so I'm not accusing Mr. Tosh (.0) but I remember thinking that I'd be pissed if something I did was making hundreds of thousands of dollars and I got no credit for it. In this case it's a matter of ethics I guess, because I don't think our friend is going to hit the big time any time soon..

Plagiarism does mean a lot to me though: it's just not cool. You plagiarize a 10th grader's paper on Catcher in the Rye that he or she put online, you don't think you're hurting anybody, and nobody's going to be richer or poorer because of it. But you also didn't learn anything unless you get caught. I was caught plagiarizing my freshman year in college, but it was a paper that I put on my geocities that I had written myself, so really it was just laziness (just happened to be about the same book) but I still feel guilty about doing it, and the English department treated it the same as they would if I plagiarized anybody that wasn't myself because I didn't do the work. I almost got kicked out of college my first semester because of that.

the fuck are you talking about? What kind of shit college thinks self-plagiarism is a thing? You wrote the paper, and then you got in trouble for it because you "didn't write it for the class", but you turned it in 'as if you did'?
Did I get that right?

Colleges just treat undergrads like pieces of shit.

Yeah.. it became less of a thing once they found out that it was my own work, and I was the one stupid enough to put it on the internet in the first place (this was in 1998, I really didn't think this whole internet thing was gonna take off). It was mostly just a young TA who was a total power hungry bitchcunt kind of a girl who had an issue with it.

Silver lining is I dropped the class and the English program entirely because of that, never to return, and became part of its cooler rebel sibling, Comparative Literature! To each their own (some universities do have great English departments) but at least at my place we were the cool kids at camp and the English Department were the rich kids across the lake.

Metaphor! Learned it in comp lit! Got drunk a lot too!

And while University of Wisconsin Madison isn't a shit college, boy did it go through some shit when I was there. I started in 2000 and there was immediately a scandal because all the brochures they sent us featured a very obviously photoshopped black guy right in the middle of the otherwise white football crowd to celebrate diversity. So that's what I came into was that scandal. And the head of the comparative literature department was arrested for soliciting sex on AIM from a 13 year old boy, which shut us down for a little while, during which my favorite TA and really good friend got married, had his honeymoon in Mexico and jumped into a pool with a cracked underwater light, the electricity killing him instantly. And that's just a few of the things that I remember about college.

But, it was still a good life lesson for me from bitchcunt: since we were an underfunded department a lot of my classes were in the engineering department and they had this sign up saying that if you cheat or plagiarize you're literally risking lives, and that is true. Pass with flying colors and help build a bridge or building that collapses and kills potentially thousands of people. Carlos Mencia or Dennis Leary may have stolen some jokes but that didn't hurt anyone, and if you're into Marlovian theory Shakespeare did the same thing.

But I was paying money and taking out student loans up the ying yang to take these classes, so if I wasn't doing the work then what was I doing (truth be told I was working two jobs and trying to have a full class load so I wasn't slacking off). It's kind of like using a picture of yourself for Tinder or OKCupid when you were 50 pounds lighter and more attractive from years ago, and wondering why your blind date didn't like the person they saw in front of them. You didn't do the work, so have fun sleeping alone.

At least we don't have to run.

We STAND and FIGHT!!

He is the sort of Bond villain we deserve.

^ honored in the tags
(lest you accuse me of lifting it)

We should really be tagging all these videos with whatever the fuck the name of his janitorial company is called. We probably can't rank for for "Brian Harrod" (the video of animals shitting is page two for me, which is pretty funny), but I bet we can be the second or possibly even first rank for his company name.

He has stolen hundreds of comments with actual talent behind them from around the internet. Jokes, observations, etc.
From here, at least 50, if not 100.
He's making money from it.