@RogerD

The "same basic topic"? No, it was the exact SAME topic. And 25% of the content was the exact same. Even the "better than a Top 10 list" concept is the same.

I've no problem with appropriating another person's ideas (knowingly or unknowingly). My problem lies with a hard-working writer (the guy from "11 Points") not receiving credit for his original content. The guy's columns routinely appear elsewhere in whole or in part.

As for the Netspeak circa: 1998 snark "kthxbai"? I don't identify myself as a writer or a comedian so the onus is not on me to come up with a "a topic - just a topic - that has NEVER been covered before". Having said that, let me offer one up: "12 Clever Wordplays by RogerD"

Then let me rephrase my post:

A very popular and well-known website posted this EXACT same idea... with some of the EXACT same items... three years ago. I, myself, consider duplicating another person's idea and 25% of the content... with no attribution whatsoever... to be the practice of a hack. However, my apparently singular opinion is in no way reflective of the fine content authored by Eddie Deezen.

I prefer original content over remarkably similar (yet *surely* coincidental) content.

I liked this list a lot better when I read it 3 years ago on 11 Points:

http://www.11points.com/Sports/11_Major_League_Baseball_Feats_That_Have_Only_Happened_Once

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