Notes from a manifesto

[Thomas Lammers]

At 04:04 PM 10/26/00 -0700, you wrote:

>I don't know if this is pertinent to Thomas Lammers's concerns (below),
>but the other day I found this piece of paper next to a dumpster in the
>basement of the Life Sciences Building.  The text was mostly obscured by
>what seemed to be a mixture of tofu and xerox toner, but I could make out
>the following: [something, something] our goal must be nothing less than
>the COMPLETE ANNIHALATION of names proposed under the ICBN [something,
>something];
>and [...] unleash an avalanche of glorious new names innumerable as the
>stars of the Firmament [something, something].
>Not sure if this means anything.  Probably not.

I KNEW IT!!  Was it written in Russian?   Almost certainly a communist
plot!  Cladism has very definite Marxist/atheist/vegetarian
overtones.  Where's Ronald Reagan when we really need him?

Tom Lammers
(whose glad SOMEONE realized he was being funny)



Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Curator of the Herbarium (OSH)
Department of Biology and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901-8640 USA

e-mail:       lammers at uwosh.edu
phone:      920-424-7085
fax:           920-424-1101

Plant systematics; classification, nomenclature, evolution, and
biogeography of the Campanulaceae s. lat.
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