The intro to "Bad Liar" by Selena Gomez is the same as the intro to "Psycho Killer" by Talking Heads.

Exhibit A:



Exhibit B:

Satire copies satire

VIZ, September 2014, spoof advert for an 'off-road' vehicle with the slogan "Primary school halfway up a fucking mountain? No problem."

Newsthump, February 2018, spoof article titled "Range Rover launch new 4×4 for people whose local Waitrose is halfway up a mountain".

Satire copies satire

The Onion, 2014:

Explaining that her statements indicated a failure to understand and implement the district’s goal of providing a comprehensive education to all children, Southwest High School officials reportedly fired ninth-grade history teacher Jennifer Steenman today after she was heard saying she learns more from her students than they do from her.

The Daily Mash, 2018:

Tom Logan, who claims to be a history teacher, caused alarm at a recent parent-teacher evening by saying, ‘I like to think the children are the real teachers’.

At a personnel hearing, Logan was asked to explain exactly what the children had been teaching him that was more important than the Great Reform Act or the origins of the First World War.

Logan said: “I just think they’re really wise”, before being told to leave and never come back.

Satire copies satire

The Onion, 1 June 2005:

CHICAGO—Located in the Bucktown neighborhood, American Mini-Storage is one of Chicago's best-kept secrets, but don't expect it to stay that way for long. The self-storage facility houses what is arguably the nation's most impressive collection of personal items accumulated during periods of failure.

"There are 250 storage units here, and each one has a different pathetic story to tell," said Carlos Garcia, one of several client-relations managers at American Mini-Storage.

"They run the gamut—from libraries of unread college textbooks to abandoned bolts of canvas to half-restored antique chests of drawers. Each storage locker is like a window into a separate life of disappointment and inadequacy."

The Daily Mash, 1 August 2013:

ALL of Britain’s best stuff is in storage, according to a new survey...

Wayne Hayes said: “My quest to own every issue of Fantastic Four took me 11 years and spanned three continents. I still burn with the intense thrill of holding #52, the last one I needed and the first appearance of the Black Panther. Then I got a girlfriend. The comics went into storage, and my soul went with them.”

... Roy Hobbs, proprietor of BFG Storage in Swindon, said: “I store your hopes. I store your dreams. I take that part of yourself you can’t admit has died and keep it safely locked away so you don’t have to witness its decay. And all for £17.77 a week.”

"German minister Annette Schavan quits over plagiarism"

From the BBC:

German Education Minister Annette Schavan has resigned after it was alleged that she had often merely read word for word from scripts presented to her by a team of speech writers, having passed them off as her own work.

Ms Schavan, a close ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, insisted that she her public pronouncements were all in her own words and that she had never copied verbatim. In 2011, Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg also quit after allegations surfaced that he signed off several contracts in his own name without even having read them...

Ms Schavan added that her main priority was to protect her department and the government. "First the nation, then the party, then myself," Ms Schavan added, citing words used by former state prime minister Erwin Teufel.

The Daily Mash

Hats off to The Daily Mash for correctly predicting the gas industry's gas price predictions (see previous post).

This scoop looks vaguely familiar though ... ah, here's the original.