Wednesday, October 15, 2014

So this guy gets stopped by airport security....

"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.'"
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Brian Schmidt, 2011 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, explaining his Nobel Prize to the TSA agents inspecting it on his flight to see his grandmother in Fargo.

Today, in conversations I will never have ….

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