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Lechacal, you forgot to add that we also discussed North Korea.
biff,
no doubt, but when they dilute the value of what is arguably the world’s most prestigious award, they
turn a nobel effort so to speak, into a farce on the
world stage.
awarding the peace prize to President Obama for example before he achieved any significant international accord or even victory was nothing but a cynical and manipulative ploy. One which Americans are mindful and angered by.
“I’ve gotten some prize pieces.”
We’re talking about winning the Nobel, not being with a Mexican guy known as El Nob.
“CGar and Rob clearly have an off-the-blog friendship and I know that CGar has gone out of his way many times to assist Rob with various things in “real life”. So an insult from Rob to CGar here is a bit different than two anonymous posters going at it.”
Biff, thanks for this post, too. All true.
To no one’s surprise more than my own — especially considering I declined to meet you people in person and wouldn’t join you at Dress Barn last year — people here have become among my closest friends off the blog.
And I love *rob*, and he knows that, and he knows he can call me anytime and that he can depend on me. But that doesn’t mean I can’t call him on his BS or that he can’t tell me to lighten up or man up. And that doesn’t mean he and I can’t fight occasionally. Like any real friendship, though NOT like an Internet chat room “friendship”.
I got the root beer. anyone got some ice cream? want an ice cream float now after all that spicy food.
I’ve gotten some prize pieces.
Still waiting for DIBS to get back from the bathroom and crack wise in response to me asking him his thoughts on “international affairs”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benoni_Defense
“biff,
I agree with you on the Nobel Prize being a joke now.”
That was Lech, not me. I simply acknowledged there were certainly some recipients who were not worthy of a peace prize! But that shouldn’t take away for the majority of recipients who have done incredible work and, in some cases, given their lives in order to try to make the world a better place.