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Over the weekend, our buddy Claire Zulkey had a crazy thing happen: a British newspaper plagiarized an entire post that she wrote. Not just any post, but a mock-post that broke all of Copyblogger's rules (read them now, I command you!) in "Five Signs Your Blog Post Is Going Horribly Wrong."

It was kind of like the writer quoted The Blair Witch Project in a newspaper trend piece about the dangers of camping. Copyblogger and Chartreuse both have strong opinions about the mess, and the paper has since retracted the post.

Here's what I'll say about it: Claire Zulkey is one of the funniest bloggers working, and she delivered a rapid-fire, laugh-out-loud, and graceful response to the problem.

It's a downright educational read. Make jokes, not flame wars! Check it out:

"[I]t says right next to the post that Melissa lives in New York. I wish that I had put even more identifying features in the post, like:

"So as I'm writing this, I'm at my apartment building in Chicago, which is not in New York . It's hazy outside and the Chicago White Sox are playing like crap, which really bugs me. I went to a World Series game last year by the way. See? Anyway, I'm hungry for dinner but I've got to write this blog post first after I finish writing my other blog, Zulkey.com, which is named after my last name. Which is Zulkey."