George Thompson & humorless ADS people

[George Thompson]

My fame as "best lexicographer in New York" came from the fact that I happened to talk to a young woman at the reference desk here one evening when business was slow and we had a chance to chat.  She had asked about the OED, as I recall, and I showed her it on line.  She asked about lexicography as a career & MA programs, and I promised to ask Jesse and gave her my email.  By the time I had an answer from Jesse for her, she had decided she didn't really have the vocation, but said that she was a contributor to the VV's Best of NY special and wanted to use me as a subject.  I humbly tried to defer to Barry, but the kid was writing the paragraph for beer money and disinclined to go chase down someone she hadn't met, and so here I am.  I don't know what my father would say of this glory -- the first Thompson to get his name in the paper without being caught robbing a bank.  Not that he thought robbing banks was a disgrace, the fault would lie in being caught.

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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998.