Spoiler Question About LOTR (The Return of the King)

[The Knight]

EvenWolf: Duh, cliff notes are everywhere.  
Sorry, I just had to do it.

[TheYak]

Of course I was half expecting a reply from someone telling me "duh, cliff notes are everywhere" or whatnot.

Ugh.  I was going to say that most other countries probably have some equivalent.  Now I'm choosing to bite my tongue a bit and merely *hope* they do.  How sad would that be? The only country in the world to need them being the US? Argh.  I've never used 'em myself as I read voraciously.

[Las Naranjas]

Of course, whilst the rest of the world has them, the term "cliff notes" isn't universal.

But then again, I'd like to imply that the US is the only country that uses them, thus indicating that Yakspit, as a member of said nation is stupid.

You're totally pwned yak.

[TheYak]

That hugely sux0rs.  I am fully willing to admit that it's well within my understanding of the US to consider that we might just be the only country that rapes classic literature, producing something slightly less intellectual than the most recent X For Dummies publication.  Although I can understand even some of the more literate people using them in some cases.  It is my belief that nobody should be made to suffer through The Great Gatsby, at least not without a human rights violation council being called in.

[remixor]

I think Las' post was meant to indicate that such things DO exist in other countries, they just don't necessary bear the seal of good old Cliff. But then again, maybe I'm just too much of a dumb American to have interpreted his post correctly.

[Las Naranjas]

Remo is right, but I'll say that he's wrong to imply yak is stupid, and to repeat the same joke.

PWNED!

[remixor]

Foiled again!

[Esseb]

We have them here too, but I've never seen one. Only in mail order catalogues or similar. Never heard of anyone who used one for school homework instead of reading the actual book either.

[Instead everyone in my class would download essays and synopsis from the web written by other students who uploaded them to a couple of essay sites on the web out of generosity. This tactic worked great untill the teachers found out about the sites from the newspapers or two lazy unfortunate students in their class handed in the same essay or synopsis without bothering to edit it. Gotta love the web.

Disclaimer: I never did this, though I did use the synopsis and essays as reference material at times.]

[Nacho]

"The corner of the lazy student.com" is the translation of the equivalent of that site in Spain...  A good idea that didn´t worked for one simply reason... If ALL the people who enters there are lazy people looking for previous made works...  nobody uploads NEW WORKS!!! So... the page had to close because of lack of entries...

Anyway, Spain is a country with a lot of lazy young people... We´re the first generation after the dictadure, I guess we can still be lazy for one generation... or two... Before the country goes off...