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- From: elliott-bruce@CS.YALE.EDU (Bruce Elliott)
- Subject: Re: stationery that bites back
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.045519.10868@cs.yale.edu>
- Keywords: ouch
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 04:55:19 GMT
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- In article <39320@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> pwg@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Goldberg) writes:
- >Ouch! I just cut my thumb on a draft copy of my thesis. Even by the
- >depraved standards of theses, physical injury seems to me to be over
- >and above the call of duty.
-
- I wrote a paper for a class this spring (we're talking 25 pages on
- the inhomogeneous representations of the Lorentz group; a real page-turner)
- that gave me a really nasty paper cut. Said cut then dripped several
- drops of blood onto my page of figures. I really wanted to include this
- in my report to prove to the professor that this paper was so important
- to me that I bled for it.
-
- Unfortunately, it was only the rough copy of the figures; they were
- kind of haphazardly arranged on the page and had yet to be pasted into
- the main text.
-
-
- At another point while writing this paper, I managed to consume two
- liters of diet Coke in three hours. To any of you who are considering
- trying this, I would not recommend it. Unless of course you enjoy
- running to the bathroom every ten minutes and being too hyper to sit
- still.
-
- (Grammar peeve repeller: Yes, I know that last sentence was actually
- a sentence fragment. I did it on purpose for dramatic effect.
- So there!)
-
-
- Alex Elliott
- The Lemming.
- elliott@minerva.cs.yale.edu
-
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