zoner (14:29:59)
so if it wasn't dickens, who? albert einstein?

mirrorbird (14:29:49)
also chocolate did not exist in bar form in Dickens' time, it was only a drink like cocoa

mirrorbird (14:29:36)
anyone who has read 2 lines of Dickens knows he wouldn't write that Peanuts shit.

zoner (14:29:34)
(i was just kidding with that remark, i hold teachers in very high esteem)

mirrorbird (14:29:25)
someone misread it as "Pickwick Papers" (undoing the pun) => the copy-paste spiral began

mirrorbird (14:29:07)
i found the origin -- there was some tacky US printer called "Printwick Papers" who had their on their old web page

zoner (14:29:00)
competent people do, incomptetent people teach.

mirrorbird (14:28:45)
i worked hard to get that removed from most places

mirrorbird (14:28:40)
i particularly hated the "nothing is better than a friend except a friend with chocolate", which was attributed to Charles Dickens across the internet

mirrorbird (14:28:18)
why do people who don't actually know things write FAQs

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