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Swiftly acknowledged

James Randi is a man of exceptional taste.

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January 5th, 2007 9:48 AM by Phil Plait in About this blog, Astronomy, Cool stuff, Humor, NASA, Pretty pictures, Science, Skepticism, Time Sink | 5 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

5 Responses to “Swiftly acknowledged”

  1. 1.   Melusine Says:
    January 5th, 2007 at 9:53 am

    I think it’s very odd that I can’t get into randi.org at work – I get the dreaded ACCESS DENIED, but yet I can get into The Onion, which has an amusing Bush/FermiLab article today.

    So, what does Randi have good taste about? Oh, you, right?

  2. 2.   Smart_Cookie Says:
    January 5th, 2007 at 12:51 pm

    Phil – that’s a very good picture of you. Most impressed.

  3. 3.   Melusine Says:
    January 5th, 2007 at 2:25 pm

    It’s the nerdy, teenage-idol picture!

    …or an excellent bottle of Pinot Grigio…

  4. 4.   Melusine Says:
    January 5th, 2007 at 6:37 pm

    BTW, Bush only WISHES he remotely talk like that in The Onion satire on Fermilab. Somehow I don’t think he took physics at Yale.

    That is the teenage-idol picture, but the one I was thinking of was specifically surrounded by a yellow circular border (I have it saved somewhere ‘cuz it’s kind of funny). Alas, I can’t locate it on the web.

    But, what’s this? Is Phil really a Teletubby with that thing coming out of his head? :-)

  5. 5.   Melusine Says:
    January 5th, 2007 at 6:38 pm

    …Bush only wishes he could remotely talk like that…

    Or self-correct his errors. :-/

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