Why I Believe Ellen DeGeneres Is Stealing From Me

I love Ellen. I think she's an amazing comedian and I love that she has so much fun making people laugh, but amazingly never making people look BAD to make them laugh. I have been a fan of hers since she sported her 80s mullet during stand-up acts. I loved her jokes about dogs riding in cars and party hat wearing deer heads mounted on hunters' walls. I even loved her TV show, Open House, as well as The Ellen Morgan Show. I love Ellen. So why did she steal from me?

While my parents were visiting for the holidays, I was under a self-imposed blogging gag order, not so much to resist being mean to my parents, but mostly because I think it's a straight ticket to heaven. We had managed to come across a PBS special where Ellen was receiving a Mark Twain Award. How we even came across PBS in the first place I have no idea, but since there are few shows I can watch with my parents without wanting to strangle one or both of them, the Ellen PBS award special it was. It was basically a G rated roast, mostly of fellow celebrities singing (or dancing) her praises, and showing favorite old clips of hers. It was all fun and games until it happened. The clip with the joke she STOLE. From ME. from MY blog. 

Obviously, all 15 of my loyal followers don't need a reminder, but for anyone else who stumbled over my blog and are curious, HERE is my entry where I discuss the Bic For Her pen:

The Queen Discussing The Bic For Her Pen

Now, watch the clip below of Ellen ALSO weighing in on - you guessed it - the Bic for Her pen.  

Did you hear The Queen get any credit? You did not. The video was added October 2012, but as you can clearly see, MY blog was written in May of 2012. (If  you can't do math, either, that means, in a nutshell, that mine came first.) What to do, what to do, what to do? I would be happy to give her a Mulligan on this one. Who doesn't remember the Seinfeld episode with Elaine's inadvertent recreation of a Ziggy cartoon when she was trying to prove her own ability to write a better New York Times cartoon than the one already published? Could it be that Ellen is actually one of my anonymous followers, silently reading my blog in the wee hours of the morn, only to then subconsciously cherry pick any of my goodies to add to her act? Is unintended plagiarism a valid defense against outright thieving, and how can I possibly know which is the case here? I love you, Ellen, but don't make me go all tough love on you. You can steal all you like, but if you keep dissing The Queen's contribution without proper credit, I'm gonna have to block you, hard as that may be. Don't let me down, girlfriend.