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- nahsrocketeer75, on 09/22/2009, -0/+23Snubbed again. Damn.
- wilhoitm, on 09/22/2009, -0/+13Where is the one that was supposed to go to Kayne West?
- MacBookForMe, on 09/22/2009, -1/+10Wow, I am happy for them, indeed!
- radialturkey, on 09/22/2009, -0/+8"Yes, could I have a $500,000 hooker please?"
"Sorry, sir, we don't have any $500,000 hookers."
"Well how about 500 $1,000 hookers?" - Ymeg, on 09/22/2009, -0/+6because being a genius is something that one is born with. Schools can't create people with superior brain functionality, but people can give money to the gifted in hopes they work on difficult problems.
- yaysanta, on 09/22/2009, -0/+4I'm so excited for this list, Richard Prum, the ornithologist, is one of my best friends' dad and I've known him for years. It's really exciting to see him on this list. Even if they did spell his name Plum and not Prum.
- Paxmanifesto, on 09/22/2009, -0/+3Hand paper making sounds awesome.
- shujin, on 09/22/2009, -0/+3the point, you're missing it
- inactive, on 09/22/2009, -2/+5They awarded 500k to a ***** "paper historian", A guy who takes junk and transforms it into "abstract art", a short story witer who writes about emo relationships, a ***** guy who calculates important questions such as
how do flags flutter?" ***** off.
The only person that deserved the grant was the molecular biologist. - RealmDown, on 09/22/2009, -0/+2Now this is what grants *should* be used for.
- rockforlight, on 09/22/2009, -0/+2Read my mind.
- immatellyouwhat, on 09/22/2009, -0/+2***** that! Get 25,000 $20 Hookers!
- markosfunk, on 09/22/2009, -1/+3Synecdoche NY
- immatellyouwhat, on 09/22/2009, -0/+2Jack White interrupted the Ceremony and convinced them not to thankfully.
- ColonelJessup, on 09/22/2009, -0/+1Guarantee that not one of the recipients is a digger.
- okgenius33, on 09/22/2009, -2/+2John MacArthur died in 1978. If only he were alive and could weigh in on who gets the money. I imagine that he might have wanted to fund the next Jonas Salk or Albert Schweitzer. But that's not the drift.
Genius Grants? Please.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0905/022.html
Foundation follies:
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0905/042.html - ucdbunny, on 09/22/2009, -1/+1^^^^ What he said.
- Floyder, on 09/22/2009, -2/+1He will be receiving the "Lyrical Mother F**king Word Smith" Award.
- NERRD, on 09/22/2009, -7/+1how about give that 12mil to a school and create more geniuses with MORE years to spare.
just a suggestion. - DesertTripper, on 09/22/2009, -6/+0Honorable Mention: Sarah Palin, Alaska governor, for demonstrating 500 real-wold uses for caribooooo fat. Oh, and for giving the lesser-intelligence citizens of the world hope that they, too, can be famous and govern a rural state someday, and even be on the Presidential ticket.
Wait, what? Someone of even lesser intelligence served two terms as President? I stand corrected.
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