For a Good Laugh

My friend Colin is hilarious, and today I can't stop laughing because of it.

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If you don't already know, today Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. This may not seem like such a weird thing if the nominations hadn't been closed 12 days after he got into office in February of this year. I've already seen all sides of it - Obama supporters thinking he rightfully won it and others also thinking it was too soon and not yet deserved. I've also seen those that aren't fans of Obama share both those sentiments.

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I know nobody asked me, so I won't say much, but I will say I don't think it was deserved. And here's where I should put a disclaimer - if you think Obama deserved it, you should probably stop reading here - sorry.

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As Colin put it (his first status update I read today on facebook), he said: "The Nobel Peace Prize is officially meaningless. Al Gore's political win over a Holocaust survivor who saved 2,500 children (look up Irena Sendler) put the prize on thin ice, but this year's ridiculous award belittles all previous laureates. Sorry Aung San Suu Kim, Theodore Roosevelt, and MLK and other worthy laureates. No wonder Pope John Paul II and Gandhi never won, this prize is a joke."

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Apparently he's on one today--more status updates:

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"Still, I'm sure they made the right choice. These people all have a soapbox from which they can spread peace throughout the world, they don't need the award. However, Mr. Barack Obama, from Chicago, USA, wouldn't be able to 'aspire to spread peace' any other way." with this link:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/10/meet_the_people_who_were_passe.asp

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"Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for talking about talking to people about peace but really doing nothing so far. 1st runner up: Peace-a-Pizza restaurant in Abington for spreading peace through pizza. 2nd runner up: Miley Cyrus and her powerful peace...... sign. 3rd runner up: that guy on the bus who hugs everyone."

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"Did you hear? I won the Nobel Peace Prize. Yep, just put a quarter in the machine and out it came. I also won a bouncy ball, a spider tattoo, and a multi-colored eraser."

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AND THE BEST, I think:

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"I'm starting a fundraiser, entitled 'Send Kanye West to the Nobel Peace Prize Awards Ceremony.' We pay for his plane ticket, he takes care of the rest. Give what you can."

*don't get the Kanye West reference? see below

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Jenn, Colin's wife has also posted a few good status updates today as well:

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"From Dave: In honor of Obama's Nobel Peace Prize win and deferring to the standards set by the Nobel commission, the NHL has decided that they will award this year's Stanley Cup Championship to the Philadelphia Flyers, based on their potential and the fact that the Flyers players believe they can win. - Okay, thats just funny. And I bleed orange and black"

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"someone said he's becoming Jimmy Carter faster than Jimmy Carter did - it made me laugh out loud."

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I met Colin while working at Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) - as the Director of Communications and Public Affairs. We used to eat lunch together every day, until he got wrongfully fired by a jealousy ridden scoundrel of a boss, but that's another story. While I'm so grateful that Rob's in school (and more than halfway done), and that I get to stay home with Guy everyday, this is a day when I miss our lunches--and the laughter--and even the one or two times I laughed so hard my drink came out my nose--ouch.

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*Kanye West made an uninvited stage appearance during some MTV music awards. Taylor Swift was the recipient of an award that Kanye apparently thought Beyonce was more deserving of. In a drunken rambling tirade on live TV, he let everybody know.