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Warpy

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2. I would sneak Douglas Adams into my papers

Reply to AlbertCat (Reply #1)

Fri Sep 26, 2014, 02:39 PM

Sep 2014

To each his own, I guess.

I'm just grateful no one out there seems to be sneaking Rod McKuen into scholarly work, at least not in the hard sciences.

Maybe old Rod is making an appearance in social sciences.

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