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Farmerkev wrote:

I made a joke about it elsewhere but I'm already finding people posting this is a sign he's the antichrist.

Nah. Just the antiBush.

I think the value of the Nobel Peace Prize was known when Arafat won it.

ShnickyShnack wrote:

resedit wrote:

I think the value of the Nobel Peace Prize was known when Arafat won it.

I think you mean Kissinger.

Ze nohbell peace pwize in science is one of mahny tools at muh disposal

Pithecanthropus wrote:

Farmerkev wrote:

A few call it the lefty of the moment award.

Lefties like Hoover, Gorbachev, Kissinger & Arafat? 

They're idiots.

Arafat and Al Gore are usually mentioned in this light.

macnuke wrote:

one day, i hope i get to ask Nobel how many times he has rolled over in his grave over the years.
his corpse should be spinning like a top about now.

Then why don't we have magnets and copper wire strung around him yet so that he can solve the world's energy crisis?

Anonymous Delivers! wrote:

macnuke wrote:

one day, i hope i get to ask Nobel how many times he has rolled over in his grave over the years.
his corpse should be spinning like a top about now.

Then why don't we have magnets and copper wire strung around him yet so that he can solve the world's energy crisis?

I -ed milk on my computer screen now.  Thanks.

ShnickyShnack wrote:

resedit wrote:

I think the value of the Nobel Peace Prize was known when Arafat won it.

I think you mean Kissinger.

Or Roosevelt.

But especially Kissinger.

People who should've won but didn't

This bit, explaining Gandhi's failure to win, was rather interesting, given the present context:

Gandhi made the Nobel short list three times: in 1937, 1947, and then posthumously in 1948. In 1937, the committee's advisor criticized Gandhi's dual role as a peace activist and political leader of an independence movement, writing that he "is frequently a Christ, but then, suddenly, an ordinary politician."

As India and Pakistan achieved independence in 1947, Gandhi's crowning triumph was tempered by the violence and dislocation that resulted. With tensions growing in the summer of 1947, the Nobel committee hesitated to award the peace prize to someone so closely identified with one of the combatants. The committee also seems to have been affected by regional and racial biases; most of the prior awards had been given to white European men.

An ordinary politician? Why, that's awful!

Fair enough.

Anyway I think it should be okay for Obama to accept the prize. I think of it as an honourary doctorate.

Bah, he's in Washington. The Nobel Prize is chump change compared to what politicians-turned-lobbyists make.

ShnickyShnack wrote:

macnuke wrote:

one day, i hope i get to ask Nobel how many times he has rolled over in his grave over the years.
his corpse should be spinning like a top about now.

He only created the prize to brush up his image. His invention, TNT, has, after all, killed thousands. Or millions.

Alfred Nobel commercialized nitroglycerin, in particular the shock stable mixture of nitroglycerin and diatomaceous earth or sawdust called dynamite.

Trinitrotoluene, or TNT is a complete different molecule.

Nitogycerine is nitrated glycerine, TNT is nitrated toluene.

ShnickyShnack wrote:

macnuke wrote:

one day, i hope i get to ask Nobel how many times he has rolled over in his grave over the years.
his corpse should be spinning like a top about now.

He only created the prize to brush up his image. His invention, TNT, has, after all, killed thousands. Or millions.

dam that TNT, it just went out and kilt all those people.

errr i prefer to think that "man" had something to do with the killing and gunpowder had a pretty good head start.
and unless i miss my guess, gunpowder would still hold the lead.

right after automobiles killing people.