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As hesitant as I am to pick the nits of a humor website, I have a few issues with Cracked. com's list of "6 Famous of Characters You Didn't Know Were Shameless Rip Offs" -- namely, the contention that Marvel's X-Men "borrowed" heavily from DC's Doom Patrol.

April | 2009 | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

Today's Fix Weekly Face-Offs featured interesting matchups galore.

The Fix Weekly Faceoffs: Bill Daley vs Joe Biden, Jim DeMint vs Terry Branstad and more! Chris Cillizza 2011

The irony is that some of those circles involve fans of these very same genres. io9 lists their 5 Favorite Star Trek Rip-Offs, much to consternation of B5 fans everywhere.

SF Tidbits for 5/4/09 2009

Tomorrow at 11 a.m. -- or a few minutes after that because of the national moment of silence for the victims of the Tucson shooting -- we'll host the Fix Weekly Face-Offs.

The Fix Weekly Face-Offs Chris Cillizza 2011

Today at 11 a.m. is the Fix Weekly Face-Offs where you, Fixistas, offer up a series of matchups and we offer our rulings.

The Fix Weekly Face-Offs! Chris Cillizza 2011

As hesitant as I am to pick the nits of a humor website, I have a few issues with Cracked. com's list of "6 Famous of Characters You Didn't Know Were Shameless Rip Offs" -- namely, the contention that Marvel's X-Men "borrowed" heavily from DC's Doom Patrol.

Wait, did X-Men really rip off Doom Patrol? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

Somewhere in a box out in the garage, I have a collected-recipes booklet from one of the first Pillsbury Bake-Offs (about 1955, IIRC), and Coca-Cola Cake was one of the entries.

Coca-Cola Cake | Baking Bites 2010

In Pictures: Web Celeb Drop-Offs In Pictures: Web Celeb New Members To generate the Web Celebs ranking we first defined a "Web celebrity" as a person famous primarily for creating or appearing in Internet-based content, and who is highly recognizable to a Web-based audience.

The Web Celeb 25 2010

During this same period of Flotilla Face-Offs with the IDF, Pakistan, my nation of matrilineal and patrimonial heritage has witnessed the extraordinary massacre of 120 moderate, pacifist Muslims, followers of the Ahmadiyyah movement that subscribes to peaceful, pluralistic Islam.

Qanta Ahmed, MD: Israel and the Flotilla: On the Dangers of a Binary View 2010

You could say the backlash starts here but I prefer adjusting the lens and putting these in the file marked "Greatest Movie Write Offs of 2010."

Virginia M. Moncrieff: The Funniest Lines From Scathing SATC2 Reviews 2010