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Stan Galat posted:
Bob: IM S6 posted:
Sacto Mitch posted:

Didn’t you spot the mistake in his Celtic knot?

I give up.  It's been three hours and I'm still looking...

Dr. Carely,

We regret to inform you that we cannot accept your application into the apprentice OCD shop-head program at this time.

While your application showed some impressive academic credentials, you unfortunately failed to pass the abstract pattern recognition test. This test is the threshold for admission into our guild, regardless of any tangential accomplishments. We consider it a great loss that someone with a mind so gifted and capable should be let down by the inability to find fault with any (and every) small flaw.   

Please be aware that there will be no second opportunity to re-take the test, as it establishes if a certain genetic mutation is present (or not) in our prospective candidates. We have many applicants and only a select number of slots.

You should also be advised that acceptance into our guild would also have included (as the price of acceptance) a vow of poverty, trouble in close relationships, and the inability to look at anything without finding some defect. We are bundles of joy at parties.

I'm sure you'll find success in whatever (other) endeavor you choose to pursue. I hope you'll find conciliation in knowing that you seem to be more generally suited to find happiness and love and to be more easily satisfied with people in general, given your (unfortunately) uncritical nature.

Good luck in your regrettably happy life.

Well, for sh@t's sake.  First, I get rejected by the PCA, and now by this prestigious organization. 

How many rejections can one take in one's life?

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