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