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# It's
a very nice place you have here, Mister Spiggott.

A hypothesis: it may be possible to distinguish physicists from astrophysicists at a distance by virtue of the fact that physicists smoke pipes while astrophysicists have those weird goatees without moustaches.
(, Fri 18 Jun 2004, 14:48, archived)
# did marie curie smoke a pipe?
(I'm pretty sure she didn't have a goatee)
(, Fri 18 Jun 2004, 14:52, archived)
# Well
there goes my chance at the Nobel Prize For Barely-Formed Notions About Pipes And Beards.
(, Fri 18 Jun 2004, 14:54, archived)
# As it happens, I am an astrophysicist
and so is my wife. We do both enjoy the possibilities offered by an innovative approach to facial hair.

I did lose the use of my moustache in a diving mishap aboard the wreck of the Rosalie Muller, but have since made a full recovery. I have also smoked a pipe on occasion, but not underwater.
(, Fri 18 Jun 2004, 14:58, archived)
# Excellent
new data to further refine the hypothesis.
(, Fri 18 Jun 2004, 15:03, archived)