Originally Posted by V_RocKs

From my own experience I have seen that Google is getting very good at seeing these two sentences as suspect for duplicate content:

My dog runs outside and when it does I need to get the hose to spray him off.
Your cat walks inside, so if it is you should grab the shaft and wet her then.

So Google will be fooled for about 2 weeks and after your two sentences sit in its servers for about that long it marks them as suspected bullshit. If you have several sites doing this Google will label them a bad neighborhood.

Everyone I know that uses this method does not have a blog below a 1 million alexa rating...

Except for that 1 guy with a rating of 968,393

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