Nobel Peace Prize

[RICHARD]

I was up this morning when they did a NEWS ALERT to announce the award.

One of the other nomines was a guy that built something like 25 schools with nothing in the way of funds or help.

It could only be more tragic if we, ourselves, had given him the award.


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Handing the NPP to BO is akin to having your sports team give a new/rookie player a contract for four years and paying him on how you expect him to perform.

Not a good comparison, but look at all the people who have been given GIANT paychecks, then stink up the locker room after they figure out they cannot cut the mustard......

IT makes no sense and the NPP award should be based on the way I roll.....

I only get paid/acknowledged AFTER I have done the work.

Anything else is just BS.

[Grace]

Handing the NPP to BO is akin to having your sports team give a new/rookie player a contract for four years and paying him on how you expect him to perform.

Not a good comparison, but look at all the people who have been given GIANT paychecks, then stink up the locker room after they figure out they cannot cut the mustard......

IT makes no sense and the NPP award should be based on the way I roll.....

I only get paid/acknowledged AFTER I have done the work.

Anything else is just BS.

Tell it to the Norwegians - they're the ones who made the unanimous decision.

[RICHARD]

Tell it to the Norwegians - they're the ones who made the unanimous decision.

I don't know Norway from Sweden-you expect me to comment on that part of the story????

As a matter of fact, Where is Nobel?

[Grace]

I don't know Norway from Sweden-you expect me to comment on that part of the story????

As a matter of fact, Where is Nobel?

Nobel is dead. That was Alfred Nobel. And you are correct - he was Swedish.

Alfred Nobel's will stated that the prize should be awarded by a committee of five people elected by the Norwegian Parliament. Norway and Sweden were at that time still in union, and with Sweden responsible for all foreign policy, Nobel felt that the prize might be less subject to political corruption if awarded by Norway. The Peace Prize is presented annually in Oslo, in the presence of the king, on December 10 (the anniversary of Nobel's death), and is the only Nobel Prize not presented in Stockholm.

[RICHARD]

Nobel is dead. That was Alfred Nobel. And you are correct - he was Swedish.

Did he blow himself up or was it natural causes?

[Grace]

Did he blow himself up or was it natural causes?

He died at the age of 63, following a cerebral hemorrhage.

Here is an interesting article about him. I don't think I knew that he was a pacifist.

[RICHARD]

He died at the age of 63, following a cerebral hemorrhage.

Here is an interesting article about him. I don't think I knew that he was a pacifist.

His brain blew up.

He wasn't too happy about people blowing each other up.

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