Excellent. We have gone from the annual MacArthur lamentation to the IgNobles and now have a Robert Benchley reference thrown in. My dear friends, I believe this qualifies as a WNNDL hat trick.
-Deb Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Nebus <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 00:10:56 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: not only did none of us get McArthur's, we didn't get IgNobles On Oct 1, 2011, at 6:49 AM, danny burstein wrote: > obwnn: this used to be a favorite of WNN... > > http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2011 Now hold on here. The literature prize? John Perry of Stanford University, USA, for his Theory of Structured Procrastination, which says: To be a high achiever, always work on something important, using it as a way to avoid doing something that's even more important. REFERENCE: "How to Procrastinate and Still Get Things Done," John Perry, Chronicle of Higher Education, February 23, 1996. Later republished elsewhere under the title "Structured Procrastination." That's a total ripoff of one of Robert Benchley's best essays, in which he explained his core principle of being so productive: ``Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it is not the work he is *supposed* to be doing at the time.'' How about it, Ig Nobels? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en.
