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The Ass Meat Research Group

Eugene Volokh • November 10, 2009 6:36 pm

Steve Landsburg (The Big Questions) has the scoop on this, and also on Chilled the Fresh and other noted authors. Thanks to Mark Liberman (Language Log) for the pointer.

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    13 Comments

    1. erp says:

      Eugene, thanks for this post. Haven’t laughed so hard for quite a while.

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      November 10, 2009, 6:50 pm

    2. Cato The Elder says:

      There is actually a clothing brand that goes by the name of “The Lifted Research Group” that markets itself to “urban youths”; it’s become decently popular as street-wear clothing. When I saw the title of this post, I thought perhaps you might have stumbled onto viral marketing ploy by them towards their targeted demographic or something.

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      November 10, 2009, 7:14 pm

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      November 10, 2009, 7:15 pm

    4. calattnyken says:

      click the link to amazon through the article and read the review. I cant quite tell if its a serious review or not. funny stuff.

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      November 10, 2009, 7:58 pm

    5. ChrisIowa says:

      Am looking forward to their upcoming publication “Theory and Practical ASSpects in the Preparation of Rump Roast.”

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      November 10, 2009, 8:03 pm

    6. Stormy Dragon says:

      I hear Sir Mix-a-lot is a senior fellow at the Ass Meat Research Group

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      November 10, 2009, 8:09 pm

    7. texasfox82 says:

      Stormy Dragon: I hear Sir Mix-a-lot is a senior fellow at the Ass Meat Research Group

      Thread Winner!

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      November 10, 2009, 8:20 pm

    8. readery says:

      Is it coed?

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      November 10, 2009, 8:26 pm

    9. Malvolio says:

      I met Steve Landsburg at a party and after we talked a bit, he excused himself to answer his cell-phone. When he came back, he said, “That was my daughter. She was angry because her soccer team is going to be sponsored by a gynecological clinic and she has to wear a jersey with the name of the clinic on the back.”

      I said, “Tell her it could be worse. The clinic could have picked the mascot.”

      He didn’t think that was at all funny, so I just assumed he had no sense of humor. I guess I was wrong.

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      November 10, 2009, 8:35 pm

    10. Aultimer says:

      What’s the big deal? I had a lovely plate of “guanciale di asino” (sp?) on my last trip to the Piedmonts — I didn’t bother to translate for the teenagers along with us that we were eating ass cheeks. 

      To be fair, I wouldn’t have told them we were eating any part of a donkey, nor the cheeks of any 4-legged critter.

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      November 11, 2009, 8:51 am

    11. DjDiverDan says:

      While I would almost certainly enjoy meeting The Ass Meat Research Group at a party, I’m a much bigger fan of his colleague, Sheep, The Edible Offals Of.

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      November 11, 2009, 1:15 pm

    12. uberVU - social comments says:

      Social comments and analytics for this post...

      This post was mentioned on Twitter by mglickman: The Ass Meat Research Group http://ff.im/-bgWLC...

      November 11, 2009, 6:12 pm

    13. Jack Tottenham says:

      Amazon does, alas, appear to have found a way to clean up the author listings. There’s nothing amusing left past the titles.

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      November 11, 2009, 10:26 pm

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