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- From: argent@iastate.edu (The Great Grendel-Khan)
- Subject: Re: The ultimate rejection slip
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <1992Dec16.150526.1@ducvax.auburn.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 04:47:22 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- In article <1992Dec16.150526.1@ducvax.auburn.edu> wkeown@ducvax.auburn.edu writes:
- >
- > I found this article on rec.humor.funny (moderated by Maddi Hausmann)
- >and thought this group could truly appreciate it.
- >
- >Originally from: shallit@graceland.uwaterloo.ca (Jeffrey Shallit)
- >
- >The Humanist Association of Canada Spring 1992 Newsletter
- >contains the following item:
- >
- > 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:
- >
- > 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.
- >
- >
-
- How about this one?
- I fugure he was having a bad day, and I won't even say what magazine
- sent me this (I have it hanging on my wall).
-
-
- I can almost see why you would waste your time by writing
- this, but I cannot even comprehend why you would waste mine,
- by sending it to me.
-
- sincerely,
- [sig deleted]
-
- Hand written too.
- --
- The Great Grendel-Khan, | They called me the fool, they called me the child
- Earth Rim Roamer. | I found an angel of the night;
- | The voice was low, the look was bright.
- argent@iastate.edu | She looked upon my crown and smiled. -Tennyson-
-