I know it was one of you. You’re all incredibly jealous of this wonderful Guide for writers of Term Papers, Theses and Dissertations, but did you really have to take it just as I needed it to do citations? I had it recently (ok, the last time I turned in a paper…so just before spring break). But I keep it in the same spot all the time (because beyond citations, it’s not all that useful to me).
It’s silly really. It’s still in print so it’s not as if you can’t get your own. Or is it that you simply want to own all the copies of it? Can I borrow it for just a few minutes…please?
C’mon 'fess up. Which one of you dopers took it? jerk.
I’m pretty sure it wasn’t me: I’ve had my own copy for more’n twenty years…
(Anyone else old enough to remember having to type your thesis perfectly and all inside the little box in the middle of the page? Oh, thank GOD for word processing!)
Trinopus
Now, see, I thought Turabian was either a hat or some fancy imported tobacco. Sorry about the book, dude.
LOL! I had also forgotten aqbout Kate TUrabian, and opened the thread out of curiosity to find out what a Turabian was.
Well, I could give you mine - a bit far away though.
MIne’s twenty years old, way out of date I imagine for the computer era.
Well ok I did it… I snuck in one evening to adjust the len on one of those hidden cameras I have all over your apartment and since the gnomes had already stole all your panties I was forced to grab SOMETHING!
Heck, you said it yourself you never use the thing… Now I have it framed on the wall with your fingerprints on it dusted with a nice purple powder. The contrat between the white pages and the purple powder is very nice.
Just one question… what exactly are those stains on page 22 182 and 213?
Much love,
Osip 
Don’t worry. You will never use the Kate Turabian once you leave high school or complete your first few years of a liberal arts program…Many disciplines have their own forms of citation and annotation. Just take a look at the recent Harvard Law Review, Lancelet, New England Journal of Medicine, Physcial Review Letters, etc. Not a single article would make ol’ Kate flush with pride.
If you really need one, my copy of Turabian is decaying in the back of my parents’ garage…untouched for over two decades!
I never used it in high school or as an undergrad. Now as a grad student I have to use it.
Oh, and Osip, as long as it’s you, it’s no problem. To have had the great and wonderful Osip here? Doesn’t matter what’s missing. I’ll buy a new one.
You realize you have opened a can of worms now right?
“looting at Lsura’s place!”
Since your so nice I will leave you a signed autograph picture!
It will only cost you all that change you have saved up in your right desk drawer:D
Isn’t a Turabian what we call someone from Turabia?
oooh…can I swoon now?
HA! I don’t have any drawers in my desk. Much less any change there. Now if you look inside the hollow turtle…wait, don’t look inside the hollow turtle.
Well, at least they didn’t steal your Sybian.
Steal her Sybian? WHat the hell is a Sybian?
::google:: :google: Sybian :google::
:eek:
I really did not need to know that.