You still go to those things? Anyway next year it's here, so you can drive your car out and we'll have a beer or two.

Very nice. Enjoy!

Depends what you mean by 'go to'. Decided to spend most of today undertaking an ethnographic study of Bourbon Street. Got to love the three for one beer promotions (though of course I prefer the position of the LCBO with regard to such things, its shocking what some girls will do after drinking too much). I did think about Vancouver next year, of course I have to write a paper. Perhaps we could do a piss-taking expat authored paper and see if we could get it accepted? I suspect sadly it might be possible.

Yes, many a submission has been written down the pub when the crib board was being used. Some bollocks like; I'm An Expat . . . Get me out of Here! The seduction of utopia in a virtual landscape.

You realise that is actually rather too good? Is there any literature in the field or should we just make some up? Once the grad student is back with my dry cleaning and lunch I can get them searching

We'd have to consider our audience, so obviously there're certain themes that seem to reappear quite frequently on here. I'd suggest using Disneyland's Magic Kingdom and the Make-A-Wish Foundation as metaphors for Canada and the CIC, because it's, all for the children, giving them an opportunity, an exciting adventure and fulfilling dreams. I'm sure we could fit in something about the frustration of long waiting times and then there's custody issues. Sprinkle in some Derridean quotes, make all concepts post or trans everything and we've got a winner.

Don't forget a nice cover. A nice cover, clear plastic laminate for example, will always get you an extra few marks.

Double spacing too. Big font. They'll never count the words.

Bibliography... just make stuff up, they'll never check. They'll secretly be too embarrassed to question if they don't recognise the books. Guaranteed.

But, I expect you two know all these clever tricks, being professionals and all that.

Clear plastic covers are so noughties. It's all about paperless papers and the free thumb drives these days.

I've posted this link before, but it was before your time I think.

The article here http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/s...inglefile.html would be an excellent starting point; it just needs a few tweaks to bring in the living your dream etc bits.

PS I'd be happy with just an acknowledgement on your paper.

Brilliant. I hadn't seen that before. If we get you on board we can claim to be at the cutting edge of interdisciplinarity. The conference does have the opportunity for 'performance' sessions, so I'm thinking that's where we need to be aiming.

Is that the Mills and Boon version of physics then?

" . . . poststructuralist critiques have demystified the substantive content of mainstream Western scientific practice, revealing the ideology of domination concealed behind the façade of `objectivity'."

Excellent, you hum it I'll demystify it.

It would help if Oink happened to be transgendered. Do you have any insight there?

No. It's the postmodern Derridean version. And it actually got published.

When a hoax of a hoax becomes the real, you know the jolly show must go on.