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Greetings good Sirs and Madams,

My Christian name is Dr. W.C. MacDougall, MD (and I will thank you for not assuming that the initials stand for Water Closet). I am a famed doctor of modern medicine, Director of the W.C. MacDougall Sanitarium for Consumptives and Non-Curables, and have had many essays of my works published in the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research. I gained the esteem of my colleagues for my work within which you may recognize me best: Entrusting my dutiful Fairbanks scale, and with aide of patients of my sanitarium, I record variances as the soul departs the civilized body (excluding post factum, of course, the weight of any poisons and/or foreign substances that may have entered the specimen moments before necrosis). This is, indubitably, the tip of the parabolic iceberg in my scientific physical findings.

While gathering research, I have discovered that this electric correspondence apparatus you so affectionately dub “Yosefblog” is quite the refectory of scientific and mathematical consumption of all sorts. Thus and henceforth, and because I have found it increasingly difficult to do so elsewhere, I have chosen to publish my scientific findings, experiments and wonders within Yosefblog’s confines for all educated gentlemen and curious ladies to enjoy and gain knotty wisdom from.

I shall publish new findings shortly.

Most Thankfully,

Dr. W.C. MacDougall, MD

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accidentalfeminist said,

November 20, 2005 @ 10:05 pm

I am sure a man of your education and background is aware that the word “indubitably” was coined by Dick Van Dyke in the 1964 film “Mary Poppins”. Are you suggesting, sir, that you can be characterized in terms of the “bookends” of this illustrious name?

Julian Thuan said,

November 21, 2005 @ 12:06 pm

Well, looks like old Julian is BUSTED! I’m sure you’ll understand why this happened when you remind yourself of my infinite powers. When I created Dick Van Dyke, Dr. MacDougall, Yosefblog, even you, Accidental Feminist, chronology did not matter… because really, what is time? Sometimes, well, the wires just cross. There you have it.

Also, you are no fun. If I were an improv teacher (which I am), I would tell you that you have broken the first rule of improv. Now get out of my class.

yosef said,

November 21, 2005 @ 1:59 pm

what first rule? don’t rub it in when someone makes an ass of himself???

the audience notices when someone says something stupid, and if the rest of the cast plays along, it just makes them all look stupid. if it can be saved, so be it, but really the audience wants nothing less than to see the moron burned at the stake for his idiocy.

michael said,

November 21, 2005 @ 2:33 pm

i’ll be honest, i didn’t catch julian’s chronological entanglement and i was really excited to have a new yosefblogger. but rochel had to ruin it.
so i’m assuming that the first rule would be: only make a joke out of the mistake if people other than you will notice.

meaning that rochel is evil and hates comedy.
love,
willow

accidentalfeminist said,

November 21, 2005 @ 9:51 pm

I was less interested in suggesting that the doctor had made an eror in chronology, and more interested in calling him a “dick” and a “dyke” as poetically as possible.

So it seems that not only did I fail in the unintentional comedy that was inferred from my statement, but in the humor with which I deliberately attempted to instill in it.

And since someone was so kind as to offer a 4th comment, thus breaking the rule of 3s, we all know what’s in store for us now…

The Dovid said,

November 22, 2005 @ 10:08 am

I would like to thank the good doctor for joining us here. I appologize on behalf of my commrades for the childishness which has ensued after your most intruiging post. I would like to encourage you to please continue sharing your discoveries with us, and I hope that we can all be on better behavior.

Bear Hugs,
The Dovid

accidentalfeminist said,

November 22, 2005 @ 12:58 pm

As reparation for my crude behavior, I am offering up my body to the doctor’s next study, provided it does not involve my soul leaving it’s body, at least not permanently.

I would, however, allow him to induce a temporary psychotic state in order to observe my behaviors, or perhaps to leave me in a room full of his patients overnight and observe how they respond to me.

I leave it to your discretion.

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