• Thrydwulf@lemmy.todayEnglish
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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.

    • luciferofastora@feddit.orgEnglish
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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”