What's the maximum number of pages a CV should have? [anyone can vote, even unregistered users]

for his 97 page cv.

(needless to say that's pushing the upper limit: time to move to 'selected' pubs and whatnot)

but the TOC isn't a terrible idea, given that I called another of my colleagues, this one a midlevel scholar who lists way too many activities and stuff on his cv, to ask him where he got his PhD b/c I couldn't find it anywhere, and he wrote me back to tell me to look on page 25.

wha?

I guess not all of us taught professional writing.