In fact, there are those who argue that he outright stole the idea from a Pennsylvania man named Ellsworth B. A. Zwoyer, who patented the briquette in 1897.
Like much great comedy, the show strongly evoked -- and outright stole -- from greater influences.
"Everybody was saying it was the West Coast sound, but it was Egyptian Lover sound!" But whether Dre borrowed, co-opted, or outright stole The Egyptian Lover's shine, only one of these men is a household name today.
And with more landlords comes more variety and even the possibility of a New York City rarity devoutly to be wished — the good deal, if not the outright steal.
The Unusuals doesn't just make the same attempt, it outright steals the copy-machine-as-polygraph gag from the last season of The Wire.
A couple of years ago on BroadwayWorld.com, a website for Broadway professionals and devotees, an exchange on the practice of second-acting — "Is it still done?" — inspired a heated debate about whether it was benign mischief or outright stealing.
"Parents with young children, for example, cannot store a wide array of items on/in bedside tables, if only for the fact that these objects will be appropriated, abused or outright stolen by curious hands," he wrote in an e-mail.
The Somoza regime, which even Kissinger called a kleptocracy (always a bad sign), was outright stealing aid, locking it up in warehouses and not distributing it, and tried to do the same with the first relief shipment Clemente organized from Puerto Rico, which included an X-ray machine and other medical supplies.
At least the Tin Man, a store mannequin in his previous life before being transformed by Mr. Rowe, a retired sheet-metal worker, wasn't outright stolen as were Toto (a little too portable, he disappeared this winter) and the Scarecrow, a Halloween casualty after being on display for a mere two months.
But for every link there are dozens of sites that outright steal our content with no attribution.
6 What do you consider an outright steal of a car (marque, model, year) for an entry-level collector (under $50,000)?
