Using the Uni lab yesterday, I had to copy and paste a URL into my project.  I missed the copy, so the paste was from a previous user. I cracked up when I saw it:

you just had to have your fucking orange juice

When I posted it on Digs, it was pointed out that it was from FucktheSouth.com which bummed me out because a) I had read that site the day before and b) it took away all of the mystery.

I was imagining it was from a breakup letter, or from the text of some ENG student’s crime novel.  Dammit.

Ironically* enough, the project I was working on was an editorial highlighting the modern forms of plagiarism, specifically, the rampant use of copy&paste.  I wasn’t actually c&p-ing the editorual, it was a URL for a term paper for sale site.

Now, though, I think that might be the first thing I do when I use a public terminal.  Just apple- or ctrl- v into the address bar to see what comes up.  One of my favorite hobbies — eavesdropping — has now gone digital. Whee!

If you’re at a public terminal, what’s on your clipboard?

*I still pause using the word "ironic" and think of that scene in Reality Bites, a movie I saw ONCE in 1994. Seriously. I pause every frickin’ time.  And maybe I used it wrong, again, but what. ever. It’s not like it’s a whole song.