Absolutely. Weasel's smug wet look is definitely a result of his firm and unshakable, nay fixed, belief in Oppenheimer's imminent U-turn. According to my sources, Witzel offered Oppenheimer a few options:
1> Oppenheimer, yaar, let's get this straight. I understand you are unwilling to make a U-turn unlike the rest of your colleagues. But at least you can make a u-turn on paper, if not in real life. OK, look here.. [pulls out old pirate's map]. Here's a map of indo-eurasia. here is the fuhrer's germany and his birthplace austria, here is the hungarian plain, the holy danube bisecting the hungarian plain (hehe), and my good friend vlad's rumania. The ukraine is here and central asia here. I have sent an expedition into the Khanate to retreive the lost treasure of King Khan, which my subordinates date to the 4th century, an exquisite collection of KJo studded.. [clears voice and snaps heels].. but you do not need to know about that. Thank you for interrupting. Now... what i need for you to do is have M17 making a u-turn here and here. Just have the damn thing return to India. I'll get my stable boy Farmer to cook up another plausible scenario.. A horde of vile locusts swamped the expeditionary group forcing them to send a warning party to the homeland. This warning party then went rogue and killed off all their Austric ancestors and erased every trace of prior Austric existence in India. OK, I admit it's sorta unbelievable, but my stable boy is exceptionally good. His expertise has even been enlisted by the Divinity school. The Church..[clears phlegm].. I mean Divinity School.. calls our group "the scrubbers." Nifty title, ya? To be so designated by the Monotheists themselves, now that's an achievement.. OK. Now, all I need for you to do is sign alongside this u-turn [draws a u-turn on the map]. You can print a retraction in some obscure journal at a later time. My friends at Rediff will run with it in the meantime. Spencer gave a full interview to those rediff chums many years ago, but you don't need to go that far. You're happy, I'm happy. What do you say?
2> OK. Option two: I'll give you a post doc with one of my subordinates. Yes, I know it's a step down for you, but you'll enjoy the vodka bar in the teacher's lounge. [Oppenheimer interrupts and asks a polite question] Yes, yes.. We do need our alcohol when battling those evil hindoos from India. In fact, one of my students is doing his end-term research project on the increase in alcoholism among professional indologists over the past decade. He correlates the phenomenon to palatization trends in diaspora speech forms (a depressing topic for AIT'ers, in case you didn't know). Of course, he is ignorant of the real reason, but why should I tell him.
3> OK, yaar, I can see you're an upright one. This is my final offer.. I'll arrange a lecture tour of India if you go ahead with the U-turn. It's a very pleasurable experience, I can assure you.
1> Oppenheimer, yaar, let's get this straight. I understand you are unwilling to make a U-turn unlike the rest of your colleagues. But at least you can make a u-turn on paper, if not in real life. OK, look here.. [pulls out old pirate's map]. Here's a map of indo-eurasia. here is the fuhrer's germany and his birthplace austria, here is the hungarian plain, the holy danube bisecting the hungarian plain (hehe), and my good friend vlad's rumania. The ukraine is here and central asia here. I have sent an expedition into the Khanate to retreive the lost treasure of King Khan, which my subordinates date to the 4th century, an exquisite collection of KJo studded.. [clears voice and snaps heels].. but you do not need to know about that. Thank you for interrupting. Now... what i need for you to do is have M17 making a u-turn here and here. Just have the damn thing return to India. I'll get my stable boy Farmer to cook up another plausible scenario.. A horde of vile locusts swamped the expeditionary group forcing them to send a warning party to the homeland. This warning party then went rogue and killed off all their Austric ancestors and erased every trace of prior Austric existence in India. OK, I admit it's sorta unbelievable, but my stable boy is exceptionally good. His expertise has even been enlisted by the Divinity school. The Church..[clears phlegm].. I mean Divinity School.. calls our group "the scrubbers." Nifty title, ya? To be so designated by the Monotheists themselves, now that's an achievement.. OK. Now, all I need for you to do is sign alongside this u-turn [draws a u-turn on the map]. You can print a retraction in some obscure journal at a later time. My friends at Rediff will run with it in the meantime. Spencer gave a full interview to those rediff chums many years ago, but you don't need to go that far. You're happy, I'm happy. What do you say?
2> OK. Option two: I'll give you a post doc with one of my subordinates. Yes, I know it's a step down for you, but you'll enjoy the vodka bar in the teacher's lounge. [Oppenheimer interrupts and asks a polite question] Yes, yes.. We do need our alcohol when battling those evil hindoos from India. In fact, one of my students is doing his end-term research project on the increase in alcoholism among professional indologists over the past decade. He correlates the phenomenon to palatization trends in diaspora speech forms (a depressing topic for AIT'ers, in case you didn't know). Of course, he is ignorant of the real reason, but why should I tell him.
3> OK, yaar, I can see you're an upright one. This is my final offer.. I'll arrange a lecture tour of India if you go ahead with the U-turn. It's a very pleasurable experience, I can assure you.