Daddy got another phone call from Ralphie, the kid down the road.
“Mr. Bill?”
“Hey, Ralphie. What’s going on?”
“I wrote a poem at school and won a contest.” (On his last phone call, Ralphie had reported making all D’s and F’s and having the papers to prove it)
“Well, that’s great, Ralphie! I’m glad you’re doing better at school.”
“I won first at my school, then at district. But when they took it to state, the judge said it came out of World Book and they threw it out.”
“Well, why did they do that?
“Because it came out of World Book. Bye”
Oh my. And he bragged about it. 😦
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He wasn’t the sharpest tack in the box.
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🙂
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It seems he got his 15 minutes of fame. 😀 — Suzanne
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I knew kids who got so indignant about having ‘their’ work disqualified in that way. Hard to get away with it now days…
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They were nervier thanI would have been.
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He’s fabulous…
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Well, you have to give him “E” for effort. 😀 😀 😀
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and that was before plagiarism was so easy to detect, probably why he got so far in the contest LOL
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This was probably 50 years ago.
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i figured that
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