jumper03 0 #26 November 9, 2006 QuoteJust thought I'd raise the tone a little. Define KNOW... I KNOW all of them. I've only met a handful. Gotten really drunk with one.Scars remind us that the past is real Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Broke 0 #27 November 9, 2006 The question isn't do you know them, but do they know you?Divot your source for all things Hillbilly. Anvil Brother 84 SCR 14192 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NWFlyer 2 #28 November 9, 2006 Apparently none. But I have read works by Rudyard Kipling, Boris Pasternak, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Isaac Singer, Herman Hesse, John Steinbeck, Jose Saramago and J.M. Coetzee, I saw Cats, and Jimmy Carter spoke at my grad school graduation. Does that count? "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nerdgirl 0 #29 November 10, 2006 Know: Herb Abrams (Intl Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War) Jean Marie Lehn (declined a post doc in his lab) George Olah Bob Grubbs Paul Lauterbur Met: Mohamed ElBaradei Wolfgang Ketterle Glenn Seaborg (RIP) Linus Pauling (RIP) Rick Smalley (RIP) Hans Bethe Joseph Rotblat (RIP) Peter Aberhard (Medicines Sans Fronteirs/Doctors Beyond Borders) Linda Buck Al Heeger Roald Hoffman Rudy Marcus Dick Schrock Linda Buck Bill Lipscomb Manfred Eigen Herb Brown (RIP?) Eric Kandel A handful others I’ve heard speak but haven’t really met. These folks are on academic lecture circuits before & after getting their prizes (*exception Kary Mullis, who mostly went surfing) Marg Act as if everything you do matters, while laughing at yourself for thinking anything you do matters. Tibetan Buddhist saying Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites