Comments | gaffetheorist: Paraphrased from an actual e-mail

gaffetheorist

Paraphrased from an actual e-mail

Apr 21, 2006 15:31

Professor gaffetheorist:

We were going through the files of $JOURNAL and discovered a manuscript that you submitted a year and a half ago. The file had been marked complete but no referee's report was included; we believe this is because the referee died.

Did you still want this paper published?

Comments 8

mglizak April 21 2006, 13:00:51 UTC

Double yew tee eff?

gaffetheorist April 21 2006, 14:05:53 UTC

More or less my reaction, yes.

yikes. leachboy April 21 2006, 13:47:18 UTC

That must have been some kind of paper.

Re: yikes. gaffetheorist April 21 2006, 14:05:39 UTC

Bow! BOW before the might of my mathematics!

Muhuhuhuhahaha...

sclark223 April 21 2006, 16:42:05 UTC

oh my! have you got a guess who it might have been?

gaffetheorist April 21 2006, 17:26:55 UTC

No idea... I can only think of a few people who might have been tapped for the paper in question, and I havent heard of any of them dying recently.

thetamermaid April 23 2006, 20:22:26 UTC

oh my!

greenishpurple April 24 2006, 12:44:47 UTC

We *believe* this is because the referee died. Are they just being polite and not accusing your paper of doing the deed? Maybe he's not dead, just missing. Or possibly, if you take long enough refereeing a paper they'll assume you died?

The possibilities are endlessly entertaining, at least to me. Maybe I need to get out more.