"I thought about this, and the unexpected size of the check. 'I think that you have some other reason, that you aren't telling me, why you don't want to do business with me. Were my lectures unsatisfactory?'
"'No, your lectures were good. It was the people who had dinner with you. Both evenings they were very uncomfortable with you. They said they didn't want to have you around any more.'
"'Uncomfortable? But they didn't say so. Did they say why?'
"'One of them said he was upset when you talked about nasal sex with plants.' I had actually demonstrated this perverse act with the bouquet on the table, at dinner the night before I was sent home. The plants were dead, although well preserved, so I was performing rhinophytonecrophilia on them." -- Richard Stallman