Pride
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 4:51 am
The year is 2016, and a woman from Barnsley has just been awarded both the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature - the first time a double award has been made to the same recipient in the same year. A few days after the announcement, the woman whose name is Karen, calls her Father and says, 'So, Dad, I assume you will be coming to Stockholm to the award ceremony?'
'I don't think so. It's a long drive to the airport, and then all that messing about on the plane."
'Don't worry about it Dad, they are sending me a private plane to fly us from Doncaster. And a big limousine will come and pick you up at your door.'
'I don't know. Everybody will be so fancy. What would your mother wear?'
Oh Dad," replies Susan, 'I'll make sure she has a lovely dress specially made by Alexander McQueen - who made the Royal Wedding dress.'
Look love,' Dad complains, 'you know I can't eat those rich foods you eat. Do they serve proper beer?'
The Nobel Laureate responds, 'Don't worry Dad. The entire affair will be personally handled by Gordon Ramsay. I'll ensure your meal is salt free and that there will be no little bones left in the fish. We'll have your favourite ale flown out specially. You and mum just have to be there.'
So Dad reluctantly agrees and on 10th December, 2016, Karen ascends the podium to shake hands with King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and King Harald V of Norway and to receive her Nobel prizes . In the front row sits the Nobel Laureate's Mum and Dad. Dad noticing the UN Secretary-General sitting next to him leans over and whispers, 'You see that woman over there, standing next to the two Kings, becoming the first ever double recipient of a Nobel Prize.'
The Secretary-General whispers back, 'You bet I do.'
Dad says proudly, "Her brother once opened the batting for Yorkshire."
'I don't think so. It's a long drive to the airport, and then all that messing about on the plane."
'Don't worry about it Dad, they are sending me a private plane to fly us from Doncaster. And a big limousine will come and pick you up at your door.'
'I don't know. Everybody will be so fancy. What would your mother wear?'
Oh Dad," replies Susan, 'I'll make sure she has a lovely dress specially made by Alexander McQueen - who made the Royal Wedding dress.'
Look love,' Dad complains, 'you know I can't eat those rich foods you eat. Do they serve proper beer?'
The Nobel Laureate responds, 'Don't worry Dad. The entire affair will be personally handled by Gordon Ramsay. I'll ensure your meal is salt free and that there will be no little bones left in the fish. We'll have your favourite ale flown out specially. You and mum just have to be there.'
So Dad reluctantly agrees and on 10th December, 2016, Karen ascends the podium to shake hands with King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and King Harald V of Norway and to receive her Nobel prizes . In the front row sits the Nobel Laureate's Mum and Dad. Dad noticing the UN Secretary-General sitting next to him leans over and whispers, 'You see that woman over there, standing next to the two Kings, becoming the first ever double recipient of a Nobel Prize.'
The Secretary-General whispers back, 'You bet I do.'
Dad says proudly, "Her brother once opened the batting for Yorkshire."
