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Category: Humor
Posted on: June 21, 2006 3:00 AM, by John S. Wilkins
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Posted by: Jason | June 21, 2006 3:44 AM
Talks, conferences, workshops, trips overseas, grant applications...
and finding a new position.
Posted by: John Wilkins | June 21, 2006 4:22 AM
Grants! Pah! You just have to write them, I get to crush evaluate them.
Posted by: Ian Musgrave | June 21, 2006 7:56 AM
Surely you won't need a grant, you'll be able to live off the earnings from your book.
Bob
Posted by: Bob O'H | June 21, 2006 12:27 PM
Ah, right Bob. Sure I will. Why didn't I think of that?
<sotto voce>Sob!</sotto voce>
Posted by: John Wilkins | June 22, 2006 12:41 AM
Hmmm. Perhaps you need to spice it up a bit. Remove the serious arguments, through in a few gratuitous insults ("Mallet's ideas were so bad that I had to adopt an incontinent dog, just so the paper would be useful for something") and give it a snappier title - "Mayrless"?
Then you just need to decide what the front cover will look like.
Bob
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June 22, 2006 12:18 PM
I will use that insult sometime. Not in the book though...
Posted by: John Wilkins | June 22, 2006 10:40 PM
Then you just need to decide what the front cover will look like.
Oh thank you very much -- now I've got this image of Wilkins (the real one, not the albino gorilla avatar) wearing a low-cut, high-hem black dress AND a blond wig, stuck in my mind.
Posted by: lt.kizhe | June 23, 2006 4:52 PM
Posted by: RBH | June 24, 2006 1:17 AM
Ha! Now I just have to pose for it. It's not the first time I've been in a low cut high hem black dress. 'Course, I had a beard then too...
Posted by: John Wilkins | June 24, 2006 5:10 AM