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Cuchulainn
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Re: Nobel Price 2016

October 7th, 2016, 3:41 pm

so we've come full circle and we're back to whether someone should get a nobel for something good when they have done something else which you consider bad
We've already seen that both Gorbachev and Mandela did some very bad things
Do we expect similar from leader of the Free World?

The commanding officers of the units involved have been instructed to destroy all towns and villages which are cooperating with the Guerrilla Army of the Poor [known as the EGP] and eliminate all sources of resistance,”
 
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Re: Nobel Price 2016

October 8th, 2016, 7:43 am

Sorry, I was wrong. There are only two, as you said.

OK, seriously now, none of the professions you listed, but a bit of each from some others.
Hint: I thought you were German.
Gunther Grass? Tin Drum best foreign film prize + plus Nobel for literature
Albert Schweitzer (keywords: Rudolph Steiner, antrophosophy, Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, etc.) received the Nobel Peace Prize. His eponymous  biopic, in which he also played himself, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary. I know you won't find it as "witty" as the Al Gore anecdote.
Good call I don't know much about Schweitzer and certainly didn't know any connection with Steiner (orthodox Christian vs. esoteric types?).
The Oscar winning documentary is on youtube. I am playing it in the background. They should make docs like that now.
 
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Re: Nobel Price 2016

October 10th, 2016, 10:56 am

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2016
Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom
"for their contributions to contract theory"
half each
 
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Re: Nobel Price 2016

October 10th, 2016, 10:51 pm

That's not clear: 
∀ polish, or ∃ polish ?
the elected leadership of the polish people
In a representative democracy, we don't vote on things ourselves, we vote on who will vote on them for us
a polish wilmotter came to the gipper's defense in an old thread
May he burn in Hell
So you want my country under communism? We should talk about it personally...
 
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Re: Nobel Price 2016

October 11th, 2016, 12:43 am

Defeated communism and poisoned with neoliberalism. No wonder banksters love him.
 
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Re: Nobel Price 2016

October 13th, 2016, 11:36 am

the 2016 literature award has gone to robert allen zimmerman "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".
 
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Re: Nobel Price 2016

October 13th, 2016, 11:54 am

This opens the road for Bob Geldof getting *two* Nobel Prices. What a crazy year.
 
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Re: Nobel Price 2016

October 13th, 2016, 12:19 pm

Congratulations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAgAvnvXF9U
Mind you, he got a lot of 'inspiration' from Dominic Behan and the Clancys down in the Village.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQBW6UQa8Fc

and this sing-along

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3h6Nr1Smw0
 
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Re: Nobel Price 2016

October 13th, 2016, 12:33 pm

the 2016 literature award has gone to robert allen zimmerman "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".
A cover groups is Guns 'n Roses. What poops really wants to say is

In the 1960s, songs like Blowin' in the Wind and The Times They are a Changin' became anthems for American Civil Rights and Anti War movements.
 
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Re: Nobel Price 2016

October 13th, 2016, 3:59 pm

Mr Zimmerman previously won the 2000 Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Things Have Changed" from Wonder Boys
 
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Re: Nobel Price 2016

October 13th, 2016, 4:06 pm

Mr Zimmerman previously won the 2000 Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Things Have Changed" from Wonder Boys
I see. That's what clinched it.
 
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Re: Nobel Price 2016

October 13th, 2016, 4:12 pm

Mr Zimmerman previously won the 2000 Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Things Have Changed" from Wonder Boys
I see. That's what clinched it.
obviously not, but there was a discussion here recently about who had won both
 
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Re: Nobel Price 2016

October 13th, 2016, 5:09 pm

This opens the road for Bob Geldof getting *two* Nobel Prices. What a crazy year.
While a rather catchy phrase, I don't know that "Silicon chip inside her head had switched to overload" really is Nobel prize material.
 
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Re: Nobel Price 2016

October 13th, 2016, 5:35 pm

This opens the road for Bob Geldof getting *two* Nobel Prices. What a crazy year.
While a rather catchy phrase, I don't know that "Silicon chip inside her head had switched to overload" really is Nobel prize material.
I agree; it's not enough, maybe "Rat Trap" but a sure winner is " I never loved Eva Braun".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuGgEcE3sIQ

And he should have got a peace prize for this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it45ankt0Ds

Don't mind what Paul says, Bob is a great guy.

I doubt if Bob D cudda have written

Hey you walk up to those traffic lights,
Switch from your left to right
You push in that button, and when that button comes alight
It tells you
"Walk don't walk
Talk don't talk"
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Re: Nobel Price 2016

October 13th, 2016, 5:49 pm

What about "tonight thank god it's them instead you" ?