Having just reviewed 30 proposals for an upcoming conference, let me say this "advice" would be tremendously helpful to some "researchers" out there. It's one thing to write well without having something important to say; it's another thing to (as I've seen) write a proposal that has absolutely no structure, submit a ...proposal that is at 600% of the word limit, misspell your own scales, mix and match fonts, or use random words from other languages. Really.

I love boiled eggs. I also have asthma. Thus, the trick of peeling eggs so quickly works about as well for me as blowing up balloons; i.e., not at all. I'd have my husband do it, but he hates eggs!