Thursday, October 6, 2011

Tomas Transtromer won the Nobel Prize for Literature just now. I assume he's an autobot.

Rumor has it that Tomas Transtromer is a poet out of Sweden. He also just won the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Actually, for a second I thought his last name was "Transformer" and that Optimus Prime just won a literary award. Which would be understandable, because it's likely Optimus Prime has had a greater literary reach by blowing crap up than Tomas Transtormer has with his writing.

Granted, this is the Nobel Prize. It's flashy, but they hand it out every year to either...

1.) Someone who was famous fifty years ago.
or
2.) A kindly old man at the assisted living facility who's good with a limerick.

Apparently there's an old adage that the more complex your name is, the more likely you'll win a Nobel Prize.

"Cuff" ain't winning me a thing then.

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