Flist help: Write my bio stub!

Apr 03, 2007 14:36

I'm anticipating a reply in the affirmative from my editor regarding a re-write of the biographical stub that accompanies my byline in the paper. Here's the current one:

Winona native Wyl Schuth serves with Second Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment aboard Camp Pendleton, CA. An Iraq war veteran and graduate of the Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Program, ( Read more... )

flist help, wdn

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picodulce April 3 2007, 21:01:43 UTC
you should have some baseball reference in there.

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Let me have a whack at it.... fg_emeritus April 3 2007, 21:28:57 UTC
Winona native Wyl Schuth, an Iraq war veteran with the Second Battalion, 11th Regiment of the U.S. Marine Corps, has returned to civilian life and is now double-majoring in English and [Russian? Polish?] at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He graduated from the Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Program prior to his enlistment, and he is passionate about baseball, automobiles, and writing. He accepts correspondence at swedish.rhapsody@gmail.com..

Feel free to improve on this.

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koritsimou April 4 2007, 02:55:33 UTC
Wyl Schuth is a Winona native. In his short time on this earth he has been a musician, a dancer, a shampoo-bottle labeler and a pastry chef. Currently he is a student at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, majoring in English and something else he hasn't decided yet. He likes Volvos and his girlfriend.

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koritsimou April 4 2007, 02:56:07 UTC
* pastry chef, and a Marine.

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gws57 April 5 2007, 20:43:30 UTC
Wyl Schuth is a native of Winona, Minnesota, which he and three co-workers established in late 1997. He recieved his BA in Obscure Geography from the University of Glasgow, and graduated summa cum laude with a dual MA/MS in Extraplanar Physics from Yale University. He is currently ABD at American University in Washington DC, where he is working on his doctoral disseration entitled "'Where The Hell Did I Put My Keys?': Heisenberg, Multidimensional Problem-Solving and the Tortoise-Hare Paradox". An afficionado of Incan matrimonal headmasks, he knows there's boatloads of money in them, if you can move them, which he can. A championship mountainclimber and world-reknowned specialist on bird migration and embezzlement law, Wyl is dodecalingual and has traveled to every continent except Australia. He won a Silver Star, a Presidential Medal of Freedom, and was spelling bee champion of Warren G. Harding Elementary School for three straight years (1985-8). Wyl currently holds the Guiness World's Record in typing speed, can run a marathon ( ... )

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detlef April 6 2007, 17:37:44 UTC
MADE OF WIN.

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detlef April 6 2007, 17:38:27 UTC
In fact, you get two Nixons for that one!

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