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Subject: BS: Acadamia... From: beardedbruce Date: 21 Apr 05 - 03:25 PM http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/04/21/academic.hoax.ap/index.html |
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Subject: RE: BS: Acadamia... From: GUEST Date: 21 Apr 05 - 03:47 PM |
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Subject: RE: BS: Acadamia... From: Jim Dixon Date: 21 Apr 05 - 03:48 PM Acadamia -- isn't that where those nuts come from? Seriously, folks, I once fooled around with a gibberish-generator program. You could have it first input any text, say, a Shakespeare play, and it would produce Shakespearian-sounding gibberish. Input a software manual, and it would produce software-manual-like gibberish. The language didn't even have to be English. Trouble was, the gibberish it produced was often ungrammatical, a dead giveaway. Sounds like the students have produced something a bit more sophisticated. That program, or some version of it, is probably out on the Internet somewhere, available to be downloaded. If I could only remember what it was called.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Acadamia... From: GUEST Date: 21 Apr 05 - 03:52 PM It is hardly surprising they got the paper accepted, it was on a non reviewed basis, accepted on receipt of their fee... Generate your own article here |
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Subject: RE: BS: Acadamia... From: beardedbruce Date: 21 Apr 05 - 03:59 PM "A second bogus submission -- "The Influence of Probabilistic Methodologies on Networking" -- was rejected." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Acadamia... From: Amos Date: 21 Apr 05 - 04:08 PM BB: I think that part of the forest is called Academia, after a site called Academe outside of Athens, where olive trees stood in groves and Socrates held fort IIRC. Acadamia is an emless nut from the tropics, like some people I know. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Acadamia... From: beardedbruce Date: 21 Apr 05 - 04:11 PM Amos, I stand corrected as to the spelling. At some point in the future, I will learn to type, and spell, so that I might be able to approach the perfection shown by so many others here on Mudcat. <*bg*> |
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Subject: RE: BS: Acadamia... From: Amos Date: 21 Apr 05 - 04:19 PM OR you could just snack on those emless nuts, for twice the satisfaction at half the cost! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Acadamia... From: PoppaGator Date: 21 Apr 05 - 05:54 PM The "conference" was pretty obviously not part of genuine academia, i.e., not a real university's event but a for-profit (and for-tax-writeoff) promotion. Not unlike the brand-X "Who's Who" publications that will list you if you buy an overpriced copy or two or ten. Condemning the academic world on the basis of this story is not more or less valid than condemning the business world. Actually, these bogus seminars are business ventures, while they're not genuine academic events. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Acadamia... From: Peace Date: 21 Apr 05 - 05:58 PM "Seriously, folks, I once fooled around with a gibberish-generator program." President Bush is using the program. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Acadamia... From: Rapparee Date: 21 Apr 05 - 06:13 PM Are you anti-Em? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Acadamia... From: JohnInKansas Date: 21 Apr 05 - 07:19 PM I noted the "strange" term, but immediately rememberd that it's MACadamia that refers to nuts. (Sorry Amos.) Not surprising considering the source. There are at least three separate books in current circulation about the tradition of "grand pranks" at MIT. Most of the great ones have been kept "local," and one might question whether this invasion of "the outside world" may reflect a degeneration in the "ethics" of modern students (although welding the trolley to the tracks in front of the main entrance did have "regional" impact for a while). Time for a bit of head shaking and a "tsk, tsk" or two, perhaps. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Acadamia... From: Ebbie Date: 21 Apr 05 - 08:19 PM And therefore 'emless', JiK. (Not that he needs defending!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Acadamia... From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 21 Apr 05 - 09:46 PM I thought macadamias were asHphalted roads. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Acadamia... From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Date: 21 Apr 05 - 11:03 PM Hey Amos mate, Does this mean Mac Donalds is sellin cheap nuts to students on or off campus? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Acadamia... From: dianavan Date: 22 Apr 05 - 02:18 AM It doesn't surprise me that, "Florida took the bait". Floridians are well known for swallowing just about anything. Myself, I prefer Hawaiian Macadamias. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Acadamia... From: Mark Cohen Date: 22 Apr 05 - 04:44 AM Actually, John, it is academia that refers to nuts...as any college graduate will tell you. I agree, Dianavan...I used to grow them. Here's my favorite academic hoax -- from my alma mater, a few years before I got there. Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: BS: Acadamia... From: Fibula Mattock Date: 22 Apr 05 - 05:34 AM Happened on this side of the pond too... http://www-ai.cs.uni-dortmund.de/FUNSTUFF/JAI/videa.html |
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Subject: RE: BS: Acadamia... From: John Hardly Date: 22 Apr 05 - 09:22 AM Homer: How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Acadamia... From: GUEST,Stilly River Sage Date: 22 Apr 05 - 10:50 AM Ah, well, this thread was bound to happen. For those of us employed in academia, sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Acadamia... From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 23 Apr 05 - 08:41 AM Macademias are originally Australian! And the best varieties still come from there. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Acadamia... From: Mark Cohen Date: 23 Apr 05 - 04:41 PM Shhhhh! Don't tell anybody, Foolestroupe... Actually, one of the many reasons we stopped harvesting our mac nuts from our orchard on the Big Island of Hawaii is that the price plummeted, thanks to competition from the Aussies. I guess they finally figured out what a good thing they had growing. Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: BS: Acadamia... From: Peace Date: 23 Apr 05 - 04:47 PM If I had to choose it would be like this: Macadamias Cashews Pecans Walnuts Brazils However, toasted seeds do it for me too. So do goobers. I plain like food. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Acadamia... From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Apr 05 - 01:34 AM Heaven on earth: macadamias coated in Ghirardelli chocolate. You can buy them in jars in places like Walgreens. SRS |
