All the prior examples are much too tame.  I have in my library a
wonderful little paper written by P. G. Parkinson (the Pettifogging
Press, 1979) and published in 40 copies (this being #19) titled:

 'A consideration of the systematics of the New Zealand Rhytididae
(Mollusca: Pulmonata) with a repudiation of the nonsensical "Ring
Species" speculation lately indulged in by Dr. Climo.'

As my kids would say, "Climo, you been dissed"!

Ciao,
Scotty

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Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 5:03 AM
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Subject: Send me your flame-outs

Colleagues,

For some years I have kept a little file of 'malacological flame-outs'.
These are little moments from the literature when authors could not
contain themselves. Their comments usually refer unflatteringly to the
work of others, such as when B. B. Woodward - in the Zoological Record -
accused the author of the new genus and species Extra extra of 'trifling
with his colleagues'.
I suspect other people have also kept such mementos, and think that a
number of the better ones could be stitched together to make an
entertaining article. I therefore invite all and sundry to send me their
'flameouts', and if enough arrive I'll write them up and submit them to
an appropriate publication. I need the exact quote, and the full
reference including page number.

PC.

Paul Callomon
Collections Manager
Malacology, Invertebrate Paleontology and General Invertebrates
Department of Malacology
Academy of Natural Sciences
1900 Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103-1195, USA
Tel 215-405-5096
Fax 215-299-1170
Secretary, American Malacological Society
On the web at http://erato.acnatsci.org/ams/

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