Dr. Nguyen, or How I Learned to Love the Copier

So there I was, writing up reports when who should approach but the man who gets morally outraged when someone (ahem) offhandedly says "gamma-proteobacteria get a bad rap". Honestly, that's verbatim, but next thing the lunchroom knows we're knee-deep in a detailed (and handily chronological)survey of related articles in the BMJ. My god, it was bad.

Anyway, Nguyen walks up and asks if I know how to cite a Supreme Court case. Instead of gratifying him with an "oooh, that sounds exciting. What's it for?" I shrugged and directed him to this new thing called Google. But did that stop him?

"Cause I'm contributing to the MSU research on the Ganges River. You know, in India?"

Though I ground my tongue into hamburger, I couldn't help asking what, exactly, the Supreme Court had to do with it?

"It's just the Supreme Court of India has taken an interest in our research. The head of MSU's microbiology department called the other day and--"

I stood suddenly. "You hear that? I think the copier's broken again. I'd better go take a look." I didn't leave the copier's side until I heard Miller ask rather loudly if India even had a Supreme Court.