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« Last post by ConTrari1 on Today at 16:08:32 »Den er jo bra St Jakobs, men det skal noe til å slå Geoff Charmbers' "The Modern Climatologist" fra 2010:
(Jeg anbefaler å lese dette høyt for seg selv strengt rytmisk og med skarpe "rulle-r-er" for maksimal effekt.)QuoteI am the very model of a modern climatologist
I’m partly statistician, partly palaeo-phrenologist
I’ve temperature readings from thermometers coniferous
my data are the same (or not, well, maybe) as Keith Briffa has
I bought them from a bloke who brought them hotfoot from Siberia
and mixed them with some algae from the mud in Lake Superior.
When counting different isotopes I’m really in my element
and sucking up to journalists from Guardian Environment
I know what makes the treerings from Siberia to the Rockies tick
And I can make spaghetti and transform it to a hockeystick.
My data’s got dark matter that would shatter a cosmologist
I am the very model of a modern climatologist
- løftet opp fra kommentarfeltet til egen post på den ikoniske bloggen Bishop Hill på den ikoniske datoen 9. april 2010, et halvt år etter Climategate, mens Gutteklubben Klimagrei fremdeles la hodene sine i bløt - og betalte dyre PR-byråer - for å finne ut hvordan man best mulig kunne drive skadebegrensning.
Antakelig kunne de spart seg både bryet og gryna. De trofaste apostlene i NRK og Etablissementet for øvrig lar ikke ubehagelige sannheter komme i veien for Den Store og Viktige Klimafortellingen.
Buskapen vet å passe på Budskapet, må vite.
Flott parodi. Vil bare opplyse om at temaet "very model of a modern..." stammer fra operaen The Pirates of Penzance, (Gilbert & Sullivan 1879) som parodierer en "moderne" offiser i den britiske hær. Herlig ord-ekvibrilisme følger:
I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;[a]
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news, (bothered for a rhyme)
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus;
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's;
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;
I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies,
I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes!
Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore, (bothered for a rhyme)
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform,
And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's uniform:[c]
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin",
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin,[d]
When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at,
And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat",
When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery,
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery –
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy – (bothered for a rhyme)
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.[e]
For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury,
Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century;
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major-General%27s_Song