I can has Nature paper?

18 Responses to I can has Nature paper?

1. Richard P. Grant says:

   August 16, 2008 at 6:49 am

   I’m waiting for the first Nature paper in LOL- or txt- speak.
2. Richard P. Grant says:

   August 16, 2008 at 6:50 am

   aw, stupid, stupid, stupid textism. When can we have decent blogging software?
   That ‘or txt’ above should not have been bestrickened. Serves me right for not using proper em dashes?
3. Mark Tummers says:

   August 16, 2008 at 7:48 am

   If I were manager of Nature I would include at least one lol speak paper in each issue. Imagine the size of the untapped market of teenagers. And imagine how much money they have to spend, or at least, imagine how much of their parent’s budget they spend!
   Many advertisement possibilities.
4. Henry Gee says:

   August 16, 2008 at 5:46 pm

   Dear Dr Ennis
   Thank you for your manuscript entitled “The Darwinian Approach to Solanum lycopersicum cultivation”. Please be aware that I am a Servant of the Secret Fire, and (_nobless oblige_) a Wielder of the Flame of Anor. I regret to say, therefore, that your manuscript must Get Back to the Shadow, Flame of Udun!
   Part of the reason is envy. My non-Darwinian approach to the propagation of Solanum etc etc has resulted in more fruits than yours (N=5) but two (N=2) have succumbed to blossom-end rot and after treatment with bordeaux mixture the other three (N=3) remain green and show no signes of ripening. And that’s for a dozen (N=12) pampered plants. So I don’t see why anyone else should have a good time.
   I am sorry to be the bearer of what must be disappointing news.
   Sincerely
   Dr Henry Gee
   Senior Editor
   Nature
   PS You Cannot Pass!!
5. Cath Ennis says:

   August 16, 2008 at 5:59 pm

   Not even if I draw facial hair and glasses on one of the tomatoes?
6. Henry Gee says:

   August 16, 2008 at 6:37 pm

   Gandalf doesn’t wear glasses. He’s a wizard, dammit.
7. Cath Ennis says:

   August 16, 2008 at 6:40 pm

   I was talking about Henry the Tomato, damnit.
8. Henry Gee says:

   August 16, 2008 at 6:50 pm

   I did once hear a children’s story, read on the radio, about a tomato called Boris.
9. Boris Cvek says:

   August 16, 2008 at 7:18 pm

   I did once hear a children’s story, read on the radio, about a tomato called Boris.
   Boris: It was me! 😉
10. Henry Gee says:

    August 16, 2008 at 7:48 pm

    Boris, are you really a tomato? Perhaps Cath can send her paper to you, then… 🙂
11. Cath Ennis says:

    August 16, 2008 at 8:01 pm

    OK Henry, this is gonna make you really jealous. I just pulled up my dying pea plants, and found that they had been harbouring strangers in their midst. Namely, four tomato plants that I didn’t even know were there. I think there must have been some seeds in the compost I spread in the Spring. They look taller, greener and healthier than the ones I’d actually been taking care of, and one of them has four flowers and one teeny tiny tomato. The others are just starting to bud. I’m not sure if they’ll get enough sun in what remains of the summer to ripen properly, but I’m hopeful…
12. Graham Steel says:

    August 16, 2008 at 8:18 pm

    +++Intermission+++
    I’m currently 2/3rd’s way through this month’s major cook-up (puff-huff) but thought I would drop by for a sec.
    Munch on this – NEW JERSEY JOURNAL; TOMATOE CHAMPION
    Must piss dash off to squeeze in some fresh lemmings limes to my Thai curries.
13. Cath Ennis says:

    August 16, 2008 at 9:21 pm

    What, no photos of the winning tomato? And was that a deliberate Quayle-ism Graham?!
    I went to the “world” championship leek growing competition once, on a rare visit to the town of my birth (Ashington, Northumberland). It was, um, interesting.
14. Henry Gee says:

    August 16, 2008 at 10:29 pm

    They look taller, greener and healthier than the ones I’d actually been taking care of, and one of them has four flowers and one teeny tiny tomato
    Bastards. Bastards bastards bastards.
    Graham’s comment reminded me of something that happened yesterday. Me, Gee Minor, Gee Minima, Marmite, Fred and Caroline were on the way to the vet for Marmite and Fred’s annual checkup.
    Yesterday.
    On the way, Gee Minima said she wanted to be an actress. “You’d be a good actress,” said Gee Minor, “you’d Capture the Nation’s Hearts.”
    For her part, Gee Minor (she of the Unicycling Girrafes) said she wanted to investigate the nature of peoples’ minds and why they fell in love.
    “Cognitive neuroscience”, I said.
    “No pressure,” I continued, “but I expect one of you to win a Best-Actress Oscar, the other to win a Nobel Prize.”
    “Didn’t Alexandra Lemming win the Nobel Prize?” asked Gee Minor.
15. Boris Cvek says:

    August 16, 2008 at 10:37 pm

    Henry: Boris, are you really a tomato? Perhaps Cath can send her paper to you, then… 🙂
    Boris: Regrettably not, now I am a ketchup (a little bit hot)… ketchups, notably, have not as fresh taste mind as tomatoes do.
16. Richard Wintle says:

    August 17, 2008 at 4:22 am

    I just ate some tomatoes from my back garden. If I knew you needed a greater n, I would happily have mailed them to you.
    Nature papers zero, delicious garnish 1.
17. Bob O'Hara says:

    August 17, 2008 at 6:44 am

    Alexandra Lemming (or Alexander Lemming) sounds like a great name for the sort of scientist who joins he 537 other scientists to starts working in an area the moment it looks sexy.
18. Cath Ennis says:

    August 17, 2008 at 4:51 pm

    Thanks Bob, that was awesome!
    See also “How many biologists does it take to fix a radio?” here.

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