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- From: wkeown@ducvax.auburn.edu
- Subject: The ultimate rejection slip
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.150526.1@ducvax.auburn.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 20:05:26 GMT
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- I found this article on rec.humor.funny (moderated by Maddi Hausmann)
- and thought this group could truly appreciate it.
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- Originally from: shallit@graceland.uwaterloo.ca (Jeffrey Shallit)
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- The Humanist Association of Canada Spring 1992 Newsletter
- contains the following item:
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- For writers only -- Every writer has received rejection
- slips; too many of them for most. The "Financial Times"
- has quoted the "mother of all rejection slips", translated
- from a Chinese economic journal. It goes like this:
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- We have read your manuscript with boundless delight. If
- we were to publish your paper, it would be impossible for
- us to publish any work of lower standard. And as it is
- unthinkable that in the next thousand years we shall see
- its equal, we are, to our regret, compelled to return your
- divine composition, and to beg you a thousand times to
- overlook our short sight and timidity.
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