Gushing
Posted in random funnies on April 1st, 2008 by Black KnightOne of my spies (and not the usual one. This is good!) forwarded an email from someone who was obviously rather pleased to be asked to review a manuscript:
Respected Sir,
Thank you very much for selecting me as a referee for your esteemed journal. Your journal is one of my favorite journal that is why i am too much interested to be a part of it (as author and referee).
I am sorry for my late reply because of engagements in students tour to different research stations of XXXX and because of the severe electric load-shedding these days.
I have the hard copy of the article (#####), I will check the paper during the study tour from Friday to Tuesday, and the comments will be communicated to your good office as soon as possible.
With best regards:
Dr $NAME
Mangled mother tongues aside, this is precisely the kind of attitude the Black Knight would like to encourage amongst his minions. Set to it, troops.