Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Weird scenes in the gold mine

It goes against the grain to say anything positive about the Omics Publishing academic scamsuckers -- they are an empire of meretricious mendacity who pollute the Intergrid with a firehose torrent of maggot-gagging spam -- but at least their illiteracy sometimes results in an unintentional pun:

Subject: Waiting for your response
From: "Rice Research: Open Access" <editor.jrr@omicsonline.net>
Date: Mon, October 5, 2015 10:40 pm

Dear Dr. XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Greetings from Rice research: Open access Journal!!

This is a special invitation regarding article submission to our Journal of Rice Research open access.

We know your expertise so, we are glad to invite you to submit Research/Review article for our prestigious journal. Your contribution is of great importance for us and it will help the journal to establish its high standards. Rice Research aims to fill a glaring void in basic and applied plant science journal publishing.

This journal is the world's only high-quality serial publication for reporting current advances in rice genetics, structural and functional genomics, comparative genomics, molecular biology and physiology, molecular breeding and comparative biology. Rice welcomes review articles and original papers in all of the aforementioned areas and serves as the primary source of newly published information for researchers and students in rice and related research.

9 comments:

H. Rumbold, Master Barber said...

Non, je ne regrette rien- Edith Pilaf.

Smut Clyde said...

Oh very good.

tigris said...

It goes against the grain to say anything positive about the Omics Publishing academic scamsuckers -- they are positively seedy.

Yastreblyansky said...

Smut, that's corny.

Smut Clyde said...

Non, je ne regrette rien- Edith Pilaf.
I believe there is a cover version by Paella Fitzgerald.

rhwombat said...

Barley a wheat goes rye withoat some amaizeing claim from some quinoa, milletant, sorghumed whinger, being triticale that some fonio ancient grain is buckwheating trends with amazing durumbility - howemmer that is spelt. Without risottoing teff futile, riceble cereal punning, aramanth to be convinced of any grain from this flailing.

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

As a because of ya'll bad eggs taking all the puns, I just want to say that the spam pie looks MIGHTY tasty.
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Smut Clyde said...

They only exist in the Southern hemisphere.

rhwombat said...

Smut: really?