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Wednesday, June 01, 2005

American Idol's Simon Cowell has nothing on the academic conference/journal/grant/job rejection letter

Here are my all time favorite (by favorite, I mean the best examples of unintentionally insulting) rejection letters, content distilled into haiku form.

From a recent conference paper submission:

"Many grand ideas
were rejected, but yours was
not among that crowd."

or, from the American Studies Association two years ago:
"Seventy-five of
one hundred were accepted--
great odds--but not you."

1 Comments:

At 11:41 PM, Blogger X said...

I wish you'd post more.
You are such a genius;
I bow before you.

---X

 

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