God must love idiots -- he makes so many of 'em! (Garfield does, anyway!)There's an assignment deadline approaching and today I received the following email:Doubt itz all rite bro but do wat u can wit it. Suggest u change the layout of it or somethin fella so it dont look identical.
Later,
     Mr Brain (NHBCTPTS) This was obviously intended for the 3 student recipients and, eventually, Mr Brain was supposed to submit the assignment by email, but he had added my name to the address list! The email text suggests Mr Brain and his 3 friends were "collaborating" (read: copying) on the assignment and he accidentally copied it to me prematurely?! The level of stupidity beggars belief! Attached to this email was a spreadsheet, nicely laid-out with godawfully-poor calculations (the assignment was modelling the weight of growing yeast yet their results were negative numbers) -- style over content.

The depressing corollary of this is: In a class of over 200, these 4 collaborators were sufficiently stupid (charitably: unlucky) to catch themselves out -- how many other groups of happy plagiarists are there? <gloom>