And that's why "B" is highly suspect, Bo.
Whsa mattah wid you, anyway?
Confoozled. Isn't the money the prize? Or do you get a ribbon, too?
patio, I think there's some kind of little doodad that goes with it, sorta like
a gold plated stick of dynamite or somethin'
Are we talking about the Nobel Prize here? There's quite a nice monetary prize, if memory serves, though I don't know how much...
It's six figures these days, I think. A drop in the bucket for most any major scientific research institution, but a good chunk of money for most playwrights and poets.
Well, it seems as though a recipient receives a gold medal, and a certificate in addition to the money.
http://web.uvic.ca/econ/nobel.html
Hey, that's not such a bad chunk of change.
When Beckett won the Nobel for Literature in 1969, the prize was 375,000 Swedish crowns. The prize in 2000 was 9 million crowns. Alas, I have no idea how to translate what Beckett won into contemporary dollars. I'm sure it was a nice su,m, but I don't recall reading about him tooling around France in a custom vehicle, swilling good champagne and trying to pick up young women...
and as Beckett goes, so goes Ireland.
Goodnight from Letty in Florida
