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Help Shelley pay for her education—she's a poor graduate student
Category: Academics • Weblogs
Posted on: October 8, 2007 3:18 PM, by PZ Myers
Shelley Batts of Retrospectacle is up for scholarship for bloggers, and she needs your vote. You must vote for Shelley. She once gave me a special cookie in her bed. None of the others have ever given me or you a cookie of any kind, and we aren't going to get anywhere near their beds, so the choice is clear.
Vote Shelley Batts. The one with the cookies. And the parrot. And the nice blog about neuroscience.
Comments
yeeeeeeesss maaassssteeeeerrr...
Posted by: Brennon | October 8, 2007 3:34 PM
PZ, thank you! I will give you many more cookies!
Posted by: Shelley Batts | October 8, 2007 3:41 PM
Why should we believe your account of the alleged cookie-giving? I have no firsthand knowledge of this event, and I see no evidence to suggest that it ever happened. Are we supposed to blindly follow your authoritative command to bestow rewards upon whomever you deem worthy? This sounds awfully familiar....
Posted by: J Myers | October 8, 2007 3:48 PM
Is it wrong for me to vote for Shelley if hers is the only blog on the list that I actually have read? Should I sample some of the others or just go ahead and vote for Shelley?
Posted by: bybelknap, FCD | October 8, 2007 3:53 PM
OK- I'm a stick in the mud- but how about Shelley explains why she deserves to win.
Posted by: Christian Burnham | October 8, 2007 3:54 PM
Sorry but nope. I do not want to help her misinform and destroy more lives due to a narrow and biased mindset.
Posted by: Geta | October 8, 2007 4:12 PM
Geta: Wow! OK... care to enlighten us why Shelley is Beelzebub incarnate?
I had a look through her blog postings. She seems smart and deserving of a scholarship- but I guess I missed the bit where Shelley calls for mass genocide.
Posted by: Christian Burnham | October 8, 2007 4:21 PM
None of the others have ever given me or you a cookie of any kind[...]
Are you suggesting that one might buy votes with cookies?...
Posted by: SMC | October 8, 2007 4:24 PM
Well, as to why i deserve to win, my thesis research aims to provide insight into genetic and age-related hearing loss, specifically to regenerate the cells we lose as deafness occurs (hair cells). The scholarship would go a long way towards paying off my school loans i have accumulated, as i was responsible for paying my own way through undergrad (my parents could not afford to). Although I wouldn't have it any other way. I left high school in South Carolina a Southern Baptist and left undergrad an atheist willing to question the status quo and conduct scientific inquiry. Thanks, whoever you vote for. There are many deserving blogs.
Posted by: shelley | October 8, 2007 4:28 PM
Shelley: OK, OK, you've got my valuable click.
Now... about this campaign to destroy lives that Geta mentioned.... When can we expect you to subjugate humanity into bloody slavery?
Posted by: Christian Burnham | October 8, 2007 4:32 PM
You're going to have to capitalize the pronoun I before I will be able to vote for you.
Posted by: Turd Ferguson | October 8, 2007 4:32 PM
LOL, and I'm pretty sure I'm *"not* Beelzebub. :)
Posted by: Shelley Batts | October 8, 2007 4:33 PM
Yes- but that's exactly what the cloven footed one would say.
Posted by: Christian Burnham | October 8, 2007 4:34 PM
Oh, and that first comment, I had to type on my iPhone in the microscope room, so I was in "text mode." :)
Posted by: Shelley Batts | October 8, 2007 4:35 PM
Wait a damn minute! You own an iPhone and you're panhandling for scholarship money? Busted!
Posted by: Turd Ferguson | October 8, 2007 4:37 PM
You got an iPhone? Wait- can you lend me some money?
Posted by: Christian Burnham | October 8, 2007 4:38 PM
Yeah. I could use some gas money for my Ferrari. That thing is a guzzler!
Posted by: Turd Ferguson | October 8, 2007 4:39 PM
Hehe. Yeah, I went without a new phone for 4 years, and scrimped and saved to get it. Its 1000x nicer than my laptop, which cost about $500 3 years go (crappy Averatec, Ick).
Posted by: Shelley Batts | October 8, 2007 4:39 PM
Did the cookie that PJ spoke of have a funny, slightly skunky smell? If so, may I have one?
Posted by: Turd Ferguson | October 8, 2007 4:41 PM
Nah, sorry, I read some of the other blogs, and I think Kimberley Klein needs the money more.
Posted by: potentilla | October 8, 2007 4:43 PM
Oh, and it would also be nice to see my folks more than once a year. They live in China (my dad's job sent him there) and its expensive to fly to see them.
Posted by: Shelley Batts | October 8, 2007 4:44 PM
Having an iPhone demonstrates obvious good taste. She has my vote.
Posted by: Alric | October 8, 2007 4:44 PM
PZ. I meant PZ.
Posted by: Turd Ferguson | October 8, 2007 4:45 PM
You don't look Chinese.
Posted by: Turd Ferguson | October 8, 2007 4:49 PM
Nope, not Chinese. My dad works for an American company that builds clean rooms, and was sent there by them. They live in Suzhou.
Posted by: Shelley Batts | October 8, 2007 4:52 PM
She got my vote(s)!
Blind obedience is my forte.
Posted by: CalGeorge | October 8, 2007 4:53 PM
Must be Lebanese.
Posted by: Turd Ferguson | October 8, 2007 5:10 PM
Shorter Geta (subject to revision pending more info from Geta):
Posted by: Kseniya | October 8, 2007 5:21 PM
Kseniya, 27:
I'm sure you meant to write _evilutionist_. I'm not sure why Creationists have that o->i problem, but it seems to crop up a lot.
Posted by: Sivi Volk | October 8, 2007 6:20 PM
A cookie? In her bed? There has to be a story for this...
And where's my dang cookie?
Posted by: Rjaye | October 8, 2007 11:27 PM
Posted by: Shelley Batts | October 9, 2007 12:36 AM