[lbo-talk] What It's Like to Carry Your Nobel Prize through Airport Security

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Sat Oct 11 17:05:15 PDT 2014


Just so we’re all prepared, in case it comes up.

“They’re like, ‘Sir, there’s something in your bag.’ I said, ‘Yes, I think it’s this box.’ They said, ‘What’s in the box?’ I said, ‘a large gold medal,’ as one does. So they opened it up and they said, ‘What’s it made out of?’ I said, ‘gold.’ And they’re like, ‘Uhhhh. Who gave this to you?’ ‘The King of Sweden.’ ‘Why did he give this to you?’ ‘Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating.’ At which point, they were beginning to lose their sense of humor. I explained to them it was a Nobel Prize, and their main question was, ‘Why were you in Fargo?’”

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/10/10/nobel-prize-airport-security

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