The Igs spawned an accompanying journal, the Annals of Improbable Research, in turn no doubt inspiring the Journal of Universal Rejection, which rejects every submission received, and the recently launched Proceedings of the Natural Institute of Science, whose acronym (PNIS) speaks for itself.
The Bush administration directly credited an Exxon-dominated coalition with playing a key role in America's rejection of the Kyoto Protocol, and this January the US Senate rejected an amendment simply stating that climate change is real and caused by humans.
When the Labour leader said no, a lowing sound could be heard, the noise of an audience uniting in sceptical rejection of the man before them – a reminder that one of Miliband's greatest errors since 2010 was his failure to debunk the narrative that blames Labour profligacy for the country's fiscal troubles.
Her resignation letter is not just a rejection of the prime minister's position on the war in Gaza, which could be treated as a point of individual conscience.
Asked whether the rejection of bulk collection by Congress and the courts meant it was now time to review official US attitudes to Snowden, Rand Paul, the Republican presidential candidate who played a key role in ensuring the Patriot Act provisions expired on Sunday night, declined to comment.
She added: "The decision not to publish had absolutely nothing to do with any 'activism' on the part of the reviewers or the journal, as suggested in The Times' article; the rejection was solely based on the content of the paper not meeting the journal's high editorial standards.
The decision to scrap the Manchester mega-casino, accompanied by the promise to find better ways of regenerating our decaying inner cities, was a clear rejection of the market economy as the solution to all the problems of growth and renewal.
The Wildling, Ygritte, born of a cold world, now simmers with love, rejection and violence.
But if you are feeling that peculiarly intense pain of rejection, then exercise can help you to sleep and raise your mood and self-esteem.
What luck, then, to find the toweringly meritorious figure of Thomas Piketty, the French economist, encapsulating the objections in his rejection of the of the Legion d'Honneur.
Martin McGuinness described McDonnell's rejection as a mistake and a lost opportunity for nationalism.
