I know a lot of ornithologists, but I can’t think of any that look like celebrities. Perhaps that makes Emmet (Bob) Blake unique. He died in 1997, and was eulogized in an issue of the Auk, the journal of the American Ornithologists’ Union. It printed this photo:
I was so taken with the striking resemblance of Blake to Humphrey Bogart, that I put this picture in my lab next to the digital scale, with the caption, “Weigh it again, Sam.”
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That picture makes it look like he's up to something nefarious.
"Are these the eggs of the Maltese Falcon?"
How about "Blow it again, Sam"
It was a dark and stormy night, and the directions I'd been sent by mysterious courier led me on a wild goose egg chase.
"It's the stuff omlettes are made of…"
Good thing I wasn't going to make a faux Bogie quote. My appreciation of the previously unknown (to me) Mr. Blake has grown immensely. Humphrey Bogart was the greatest. Treasure of the Sierra Madre… pure genius.
Permits? We don't need no stinking permits!