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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/030218/80/dti32.htmlMike Wong wrote:Will somebody please tell this asshole that he is not a world leader? He's just an aging rock star with funny looking shades and the most enormously overinflated ego the world has ever seen.
[brainless moron mode] ....but, but, but ... he sings songs and is popular ... heck, he's even on MTV, so he's gotta be great. You're just mad, because he's so smart and popular, and you wish you were![/brainless moron mode]Galvatron wrote:http://uk.news.yahoo.com/030218/80/dti32.htmlMike Wong wrote:Will somebody please tell this asshole that he is not a world leader? He's just an aging rock star with funny looking shades and the most enormously overinflated ego the world has ever seen.
Darwin awardsneoolong wrote:Man are any awards still worth earning?
Though they start to get meaningless with the sheer volume of them increasing so much.....Stormbringer wrote:Darwin awardsneoolong wrote:Man are any awards still worth earning?
Actually didn't a category get retired because it kept happening to much?Keevan_Colton wrote:Though they start to get meaningless with the sheer volume of them increasing so much.....Stormbringer wrote:Darwin awardsneoolong wrote:Man are any awards still worth earning?
Why do you say that?Durandal wrote:The Nobel Peace Prize became irrelevant when Mother Teresa was awarded it.
Acutal not quite Wong, I caught this today as a matter of fact on the History Channel where they read his will and noted the fact the only thing Nobel every gave to the Nobel awards was his name and his money, He said in his will only to "set up a fund to help reward and recongize those who better mankind"Of course, the irony of the Nobel peace prize is that Nobel created it in order to cover up his legacy, since he was an enormously successful arms dealer (where do you think he got all his money?), not to mention the man who invented dynamite. In his day, he was known as the "Merchant of Death".
The Nobel Prize THE most respected prize of them all.neoolong wrote:Man are any awards still worth earning?
http://www.nobel.seExcerpt from the Will of Alfred Nobel wrote:
"The whole of my remaining realizable estate shall be dealt with in the following way:
The capital, invested in safe securities by my executors, shall constitute a fund, the interest on which shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind.
The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts, which shall be apportioned as follows:
One part to the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics
One part to the person who shall have made the most important chemical discovery or improvement
One part to the person who shall have made the most important discovery within the domain of physiology or medicine
One part to the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction
And one part to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.
The prizes for physics and chemistry shall be awarded by the Swedish Academy of Sciences
That for physiology or medical works by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm
That for literature by the Academy in Stockholm
And that for champions of peace by a committee of five persons to be elected by the Norwegian Storting.
It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not."
Because of his work in raising awareness of both AIDS and the Northern Ireland situation throughout he 80s and early 90s.HemlockGrey wrote:Um, why? Why Bono?