“They’re like, ‘Sir, there’s something in your bag.’
I said, ‘Yes, I think it’s this box.’
They said, ‘What’s in the box?’
I said, ‘a large gold medal,’ as one does.
So they opened it up and they said, ‘What’s it made out of?’
I said, ‘gold.’
And they’re like, ‘Uhhhh. Who gave this to you?’
‘The King of Sweden.’
‘Why did he give this to you?’
‘Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating.’
At which point, they were beginning to lose their sense of humor. I explained to them it was a Nobel Prize, and their main question was, ‘Why were you in Fargo?’”
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCZ1YteCv5M
The language suffers more for every person who doesn't have their Nobel yet clicks per their want (the clickbaiter's want as it were).
Nobody really gives a shit how Nobels' prize' are carried. But since God is gone, they have to do something. So might as well click on that.
This is like a puzzle or something, isn't it?
This is a link to A Song For You by the Great Gram Parsons.
This is a link to a song from the Great American Digest, aka G. Vanderleun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSHzODm-Ik8
Sorry I didn't link the source.
Fixed.
I think their work is derivative. Fluorescent imaging was improved, but not invented by the winners. I wonder if the Chemistry Nobels are going to have the same problem as Cleveland's Rock and Roll HoF in a few years. Probably not, but it feels like it.
It's cool that "Hell" means "bright, light, vivid" in German (so there's that).
Oh and I detected "smug" in that description of airport security on the scientist's part.
Well... I'd think that "why are you visiting Fargo" is an eminently reasonable question.
This is, after all, an Airport that, last time I ever saw it after they built the *new* terminal... had only TWO gates.
It's chocolate.
And that reminded me at checkout, boy, those impulse items sure do evoke impulses.
They had stacks of boxes of giant Hershey's candy bars, and I mean GIANT, 2 for $4.00.
$2.00 a piece for GIANT candy bars is not bad at all. I say that as a chocolate buyer.
Then directly facing them the same Hershey's bars regular size in their regular display, 1 for $1.00, I think.
So I bought 2 giant bars, what the heck.
If you type 'chocolate' into Blogger search on my site a whole world of chocolate opens up that includes Egyptian molds that I made myself from carvings I did for the project, and boxes I designed to put gift chocolates in, wrappers, white chocolate, Kinder Surprise eggs, chocolate soufflé, chocolate pancakes, on and on.
The other day I a British friend mentioned that two pieces of his artwork were chosen for a movie made of clips of fan-based art that tell the entire story of Star Wars from r amalgamated fan artworks, disjointed by styles but joined nonetheless. The guy said he wish they had chosen his Han Solo in carbonite artwork because it is one of his favorites, but they used somebody else's for that.
I said, I did that in chocolate and the next day I noted a distinct spike in page views for Han Solo all coming from Britain.
Was it Archimedes or was it Euclid who got offed by the soldiers?
Either way, a cautionary tale.
The King of Sweden was awfully generous to Minnie the Moocher too.
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