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Kim: "It's 3am and a phone is ringing in the White House. Who do you want answering that call?"
Me: "Hey, at least they didn't give it to him last year."
Kim: "Good news! Steuard's chances of winning the Nobel Prize in Physics are a lot higher than we thought!"
Me: "Yeah, this paper that I'm writing? It could totally turn out great."
Kim: "I hope The Onion's staff goes into high gear this morning and comes out with a whole series of stories like 'New Resident wins Nobel Prize in Medicine!' Actually, I wondered if this was an Onion story at first."
Don't get me wrong: I'm just as much of an Obama supporter today as I have been for years. But c'mon, Nobel committee! We've been trying to convince people to keep their expectations realistic: he can't accomplish everything he wants in just a few months. Don't go hanging a "Mission Accomplished" banner behind him like this!
Is it too much to hope that he'll courteously turn this down? Or would that end up being worse?
Me: "Hey, at least they didn't give it to him last year."
Kim: "Good news! Steuard's chances of winning the Nobel Prize in Physics are a lot higher than we thought!"
Me: "Yeah, this paper that I'm writing? It could totally turn out great."
Kim: "I hope The Onion's staff goes into high gear this morning and comes out with a whole series of stories like 'New Resident wins Nobel Prize in Medicine!' Actually, I wondered if this was an Onion story at first."
Don't get me wrong: I'm just as much of an Obama supporter today as I have been for years. But c'mon, Nobel committee! We've been trying to convince people to keep their expectations realistic: he can't accomplish everything he wants in just a few months. Don't go hanging a "Mission Accomplished" banner behind him like this!
Is it too much to hope that he'll courteously turn this down? Or would that end up being worse?
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