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Put-downs
> From: [email protected] (Robert Fovell)
>
> In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Eric
> Bennett) wrote:
>
> > "She can put the smallest ideas into the most words of anyone I know." -
> > Mencken or Shaw, I forget which
>
> Hahhaha...! which, for some reason, brought to mind the following,
> which I count as perhaps the best put-down I've ever come across,
> said years back (though perhaps not originally?) by a scientist to
> someone who had just finished a presentation:
>
> "Your paper fills a much-needed hole in the literature" ;)
>
> --
> Prof. Robert Fovell
> UCLA Atmospheric Sciences
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Eric Bennett ( [email protected] ; http://www.pobox.com/~ericb )
Cornell University
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