• Thrydwulf@lemmy.today
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      12 hours ago

      conceived of the idea of coauthoring a paper for the express purpose of enabling this joke. They followed through on it five years later

      The sheer determination and commitment for telling a dick joke. And here I am not being able to tell you if I’ll be employed a year later.

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        3 hours ago

        I also love the way Cox put it:

        A few weeks after we met, we realized that we had to write a joint paper because the combination of our last names, in the usual alphabetical order, is remarkably obscene.

        That is such a lovely nerd way to put “We found the combo of our last names hilarious”