Nobel Prize Committee Member Gifts

'Yeah, but would you want to have a beer with him.'

'An exxpert team set up a team of special consultants, that then set up a committee whose members asked their 7 year old kids. Now 14 months later they've concluded we're not efficient enough.'

'Hanson - committee of four.'

'What we need is a decision, not more foot-dragging.'

"The state of graduates literacy levels is shoking and both my colleegs agrree that there maths isn't much better."

'It may not be our usual business lunch, but it will sure impress the hell out of the budget committee.'

"Hold everything! I just thought up a terrific loophole!"

'Don't call the Nobel Committee just yet: We forgot to calibrate the instruments before the experiment...'

'There's an absence of leadership in this authority,we need to explore the possibility of thinking about setting up a sub-committee to look into it.'

'Okay, let's go over this again: You tell me your great ideas, I repeat them back to you, then you tell me I have a great idea and I get all the credit for it!'

"There's no need to go round the table - I know who I am."

'Wow! Oh, wait -- It's only a Nobel consolation prize.'

Plain English group.

"The vote is tied. Half of us think the proposed plan is astoundingly asinine, and the other half finds it stupid beyond belief. Let's try to find a middle ground here, people!"

"The Board just wants to be sure you're well supported."

"Caption: we work in an office; however, we have dressed for the circus. What a humorous mixup."

"The steering-committee three are we. Run it by us, and we'll see."

'That's it, in a nutshell.'

'Excellent - it's unanimous!'

"The first goal of our ad hoc committee should be to learn Latin."

"I suppose the first thing to do is form an escape committee."

"For your information, officer, I was not ‘texting’ – I was reviewing candidate applications for fellowship grants!"

Ivan Bunin

"Motion denied then"

"Thanks a bunch. I'll just run these by our committee and pass them along."

'I think we should form a committee to look into this 'individual initiative' thing.'

Hudibras - 9 - The committee.

'Community wok?'

'Mr.Shumway here is our visiting ethicist.'

'We have 10 billion dollars sitting around. Let's give it to the country that calls the United States the most names.'