Hili has a Big Announcement about Professor Ceiling Cat

March 4, 2015 • 12:04 pm

Hili has something to tell you: here’s her dialogue with Andrzej:

Hili: Open the Wikipedia entry with Jerry Coyne…
A: It’s open now…
Hili: It must be updated: my Jerry just got the Richard Dawkins Award from The Atheist Alliance of America!
A: How do you know?!
Hili: I knew it for ages but it was a Great Secret.

Hili announcement
In Polish:
Hili: Otwórz Wikipedię z hasłem Jerry Coyne…
Ja: Otworzyłem..
Ja: Skąd wiesz!?
Hili: Od dawna o tym wiedziałam, ale to był Wielki Sekret.
Yes, ’tis true, though I can hardly believe it.  Given the list of previous winners, which include some people I admire very much, like the late Christopher Hitchens, I’m not only honored but deeply humbled. I’ll get the Big Prize at the AAA conference in Atlanta, which goes from Oct. 15-18 of this year. (Good Southern noms in that town!).  But I hope to God I don’t have to make a speech, for I’d never come close to the beautiful and heartbreaking talk that Hitchens gave when he got the award in 2011.
For those of you who were there, or who have watched the talk, do you remember this?
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UPDATE:  Since my avid feline fans span the globe, I have received another cat dialogue from England, involving Theo the Coffee-Drinking Cat and his servant Laurie:
Laurie: Theo, I must tell you the great news about your friend, Jerry.
Theo: I already know, Mummy; now allow me to swoon!
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And other, from Orson, sent by his servant Tubby:
Orson: Totes awesomeballs!
hooray
Gus and his staff Taskin weighed in, too:

Me: Hey Gus, have you heard the news about Jerry’s award?
Gus: Of course I have. Should we send him these flowers or shall I just eat them for him?

Gus!

128 thoughts on “Hili has a Big Announcement about Professor Ceiling Cat”

  11. Professor, Congratulations on your well deserved award! Best wishes for the future.

  12. I’m wondering whether the Discovery Institute gave you a plaque or something.

    1. No plaque, I don’t think, but I’m pretty sure they did try to pray up a plague. That doesn’t seem to have gone anywhere, though, either.

      b&

  13. I have learned very much from this site over the months that I have viewed it. Although I have been an atheist since the early 60’s, I have rarely spoken out about atheism. Your site, Dr. Coyne, has emboldened me, and now I welcome opportunities to suggest to my Christian friends that the existence of a creationist god is extremely unlikely.
    Congratulations on your award. It is well deserved.

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