Like everyone else in the discipline, we have seen multipleappearances of a single paper title on conference programs, withinvitas of job applicants, and in tenure/promotion files. Dependingupon the context, our reactions have either been amusement,irritation, or (most frequently) indifference. To bring the entiresituation home, consider the following: About three weeks ago, bothof us submitted (separate) paper proposals to the 2008 AnnualMeeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. And, sometimewithin the next five weeks, one of us intends to submit a proposalto the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Political ScienceAssociation, while the other plans to submit a proposal to the 2008State Politics and Policy Meeting. In each case, these will be thesame proposals that we sent off earlier to the Midwest PoliticalScience Association.