George Thompson & humorless ADS people

[Alice Faber]

George Thompson said:
>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.
>

So, are you trying to say that you got caught being a lexicographer?
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Alice Faber                                             faber at haskins.yale.edu
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