*buys typewriter*
*types eleventy hundred pages*
*submits to publishers*
*is rejected*
*reworks*
*submits again*
*is accepted*
*waits 6 weeks*
*receives complementary writer's copy of 'To shove cacti up a Prof UnderCover until it pops'*
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Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE,
Thu 29 May 2008, 16:01,
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*has died of old age before he reads the whole post*
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Prof UnderCover evitable,
Thu 29 May 2008, 16:06,
archived)