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- From: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
- Newsgroups: sci.math,alt.true-crime,alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: a first year grad student freaks out.
- Message-ID: <Bxo463.Do4@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 18:46:50 GMT
- References: <92314.170255RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu> <1992Nov12.212852.15368@informix.com>
- Reply-To: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
- Followup-To: alt.true-crime
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- proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts) wrote in sci.math:
- > RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu writes:
- >> what's the deal with this thesis thing? what happens if you
- >> simply cannot prove whatever your advisor assigned?
- > Oh, you just hang about for ever and ever and eventually you walk into
- > your advisors office and kill him with a hammer. They put you away for
- > seven years or so (after all, it is *almost* justifiable homocide), you
- > eventually get released, still muttering darkly about "other scores
- > you still have to settle at Stanfo ...", ooops, at your ex-University.
- > No big deal. This is a true story.
-
- OK, I've heard of that one, but could somebody tell us the whole thing and
- name names?
-
- While we're at it, what *really* happened to Richard Montague? (Strangled
- in his bath with piano wire by a casual pickup, is the version I heard, but
- that was only from one oral source).
-
- [ Note the probably unprecedented crossposting.
- Followups will default to alt.true-crime. ]
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