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Manifestor_of_Light

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1. Don't you know? Nobel Prizes come in Crackerjack Boxes.

Reply to cthulu2016 (Original post)

Sat May 26, 2012, 02:56 PM

May 2012

Because Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama all won one.

And Paul Krugman won one too. I actually saw an argument saying that a Nobel Prize in Economics was no big deal because it was "added after the original Nobel Prizes; it wasn't in Alfred Nobel's will."

Whoop-de-doo.

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Meet a wing-nut Nobel Prize Winner [View all] cthulu2016 May 2012 OP

Don't you know? Nobel Prizes come in Crackerjack Boxes. Manifestor_of_Light May 2012 #1

The real Nobel prizes are the ones in Chemistry, Medicine or Physiology, and Physics FarCenter May 2012 #5

Oh and another reason not to respect Paul Krugman: Manifestor_of_Light May 2012 #2

Most of the Great Experts who make their bones "disproving" Keynes Warpy May 2012 #3

I knew this had to be about an economist. There might as well be a Nobel Prize for prostitution. leveymg May 2012 #4