It's a Joke Stealing World Out There, Folks

If you call yourself a "comedian", "wordsmith", or "tweeter" then you may have had to be humorous on occasion. Humor is, after all, the quickest way to turn foe into friend and 90 measly followers into 90k.

Everyone wants to be funny; not everyone is funny, though. Therein lies the problem. And what does one do when they are striving to be hilarious, but are smile-worthy at best? They steal, kill, and destroy, just like the devil. In other words, they take funny people's jokes and claim them as their own.

And the creator of a fabulous joke, after realizing it has been stolen, cannot do much except hire a hit man (which I discourage, unless it was an A+ joke). After all, claiming to have copyright is about as useless as trying to settle the chicken or the egg debate; everyone thinks they cracked the joke first, but maybe the other guy did (I hate that guy).

The only thing left to rely on is other people's scruples, which isn't saying much.

Essentially joksters have to realize that there is no effective way of bottling up humor and selling it to the highest bidder. Once you make someone laugh, word of mouth will spread the laughter and cripple the integrity of your copyright. Therefore, there remains only one thing left to do.

Joksters must come to terms with the fact that their ideas, if fabulous enough, will probably be stolen at some point. Nonetheless, they will continue to formulate funnies because making another person laugh is one of the little things that makes the world a better place.

I urge funny people to keep doing their thing.

Joke stealers, for shame.