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Kevyn ([personal profile] kevyn) wrote2008-02-13 07:12 pm

I'm a Homework Assignment! I'm a Homework Assignment!

Wow, this is so cool...

My Borg Poem just showed up on Yahoo! Philippines Answers Homework Help:

Resolved Question > Multiple choice.?

This is the second time this poem has hit the school curriculum radar internationally.

They call me a POET!

Damn. I always said my goal in life was to be a footnote... but now I'm somebody's HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT! LOL!

I'm feeling very accomplished here. (How do I channel this interest in my writing into $$$?)

[identity profile] kevynjacobs.livejournal.com 2008-02-14 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Also interesting... They dropped the "s" from my last name: Jacob. I kind of like it. I've always felt the "s" -- which was added during the anti-German hysteria in the United States during World War I -- is kind of extraneous. (Also confuses the hell out of people who try to make it possessive or plural. Posessive: Jacobs' Plural: Jacobs Posessive plural: Jacobs' )

Actually, the name was originally "Jakob" (that's what's on my grandmother's tombstone) at the time of the family's immigration to "Hace, Amerika."

Hmmm. Kevyn Jakob.

Kevyn 'Hagrid' Jakob.

Hagrid Jakob. Not bad.

Nom-de-plume?

Fascinating!

[identity profile] kevynjacobs.livejournal.com 2008-02-14 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know if it's actually from the Philippines or not. That's the link that Google handed me, but it turns out that it's on all Yahoo! International brands (just change the 2-letter country prefix):

Yahoo! Canada, India, UK & Ireland, Deutschland

So it may just be that the Philippines version is just the first one that Google noticed. I don't see any way to determine where this question originated.

[identity profile] man-of-snows.livejournal.com 2008-02-14 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
You start getting money when you file a class action lawsuit against the borg machine!

[identity profile] porthos74.livejournal.com 2008-02-14 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
(*happy poet dance!*...which, coincidentally, my dear Mr. Jakob, looks VERY similar to the footwork one would use to stumble drunkenly out of a pub...)

[identity profile] seespikerun.livejournal.com 2008-02-14 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
where's my moooonnnnnnney man? i want my fuckin money man, where's my money man?!

[identity profile] detailbear.livejournal.com 2008-02-15 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
Didn't you work for a book publisher at one time? Do you still have contacts there?

[identity profile] detailbear.livejournal.com 2008-02-15 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, and congratulations!