Letters: Justinuary 2006

Written correspondences from good natured gentlemen who have read our previous installments and wish to comment on some aspects thereof.

Dear A&A,
Your advertisement for the Mohorovicic Discontinuity (Caliguly 2006) would also be great for a t-shirt. Unfortunately the molten rock contained within the Earth is called magma, not lava. This really bugs me.
Sabine
Corpus Christi, TX

Dear Editors,
I take issue with Sticker Page in your Clauduary issue (Sticker Page, Clauduary 2006). At the very top of the page you feature a sticker which says “I Dig Dugout Dug.” Dugout Dug is a thoroughly despicable human being. He is unable to wash or clothe himself and his only claim to fame before your infamous lionizing of him on Sticker Page was being kicked out of the Rocklynde, Montsylvania Lentil Soakers AAA baseball team dugout before every game.
Melvin Merkson
Rocklynde, MV

To the Axes & Alleys editors, in regards to Not Even
Wrong review, Springtober 2006:

Thanks for sending this, although I think you guys should lighten up…You have been smart enough to notice what lots of reviewers didn’t, that the book wasn’t especially written for a popular audience, but that significant parts of it were really written mainly for other physicists and mathematicians, although this is cleverly hidden through the avoidance of equations. My publishers also didn’t much notice this, although they perhaps just have unshakeable faith in the public’s willingness to buy something they won’t be able to understand. Anyway, so far I’ve been extremely pleased and surprised at how much attention the book has gotten and how well it has been selling. It really was intended originally for a university press and much more limited distribution. String theorists put a stop to that, now they’re not very happy with the fact that the book’s point of view is reaching a rather wide audience.
Anyway, best wishes!
Dr. Peter Woit
New York, NY

Dear Axes & Alleys,
I am incensed by the latest rash of bestiality reports in the media. Persons engaging in interspecies rape with pit bulls, pomeranians, schnauzers, basset hounds, doberman pinschers, chihuahuas, bluetick coonhounds, corgis, pekingese, otterhounds, and spitzes is just disgusting. Humans should only rape size-appropriate canines such as Irish wolfhounds, borzois, St. Bernards, Rhodesian ridgebacks, and mongrels more than two feet tall. I am constantly amazed at the true depths of depravity to which society plummets; more so the incomprehension of size differences.
Mike Gamble
Sordid Rakehook, WD

Dear Axes & Alleys,
Your classified ads are not actually classified at all. They are randomly arranged. Please fix this or I will cancel my subscription. Also, when are you gonna publish some more Rango and Lem comics? It’s not like they’re that hard or produce, so c’mon lets see the boy and the alien and lets see some actual classifieds some time.
Jennifer Martasko
Seaford, NY

To the Editors,
How come all the ladies on your covers are famous celebrities like actors, singers or models? Why not put an ordinary girl on your cover? Maybe someone who’s just a college student or check out girl at the supermarket? Ordinary, normal girls are hot. It’d be cool to see one on your cover.
Paul David Hewson
Dublin, Ireland

1 thought on “Letters: Justinuary 2006

  1. I do the job with these dogs and as far as animal behavior goes, I am a solid believer in nurture and instruction. I’ve met Jack Russell Terriers that I wouldn’t go near once again, but have certainly not had a bad knowledge with an American Staffordshire Terrier. If you’re talking about their owners- well, which is a distinct story. Human beings are creatures as well, and we often each have our personal suggestions about “moral concepts”.

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