Shyheels

Double hanging

Webber

Bugner

Some great American roadside verse:

Your shaving brush

Has had its day

So why not shave

The Modern Way

With 

Burma Shave

Bognor

I suppose we can assume then that he/they/it should be sitting by the phone this time each year awaiting the gong from Stockholm! 

Rudy Vallee

As Mickey Spillane one said to a disparaging critic, "If the public likes ya, you're good."

Like the great American playwright William Shakespeare and the great American king, Victoria

33 minutes ago, Heelster said:

Roses are red

Violets are blue

I suck at Poetry

 - - Coffee

 

I was moved to tears...

Valley Forge

I agree about obscurity not (necessarily) being a barrier to becoming a Nobel Laureate, but the fact remains that it has been many years since a popularly read author won that prize. It's difficult to see how any of the recent winners could possibly have influenced literature in any global sense. J.K. Rowling would have a stronger claim in that regard  

Boobie

Guzzler

Yes, Obama seems a nice enough guy but what he could possibly have accomplished as a senator from Illinois to warrant his being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was a real head scratcher. It couldn't have been for anything he'd done as president because he'd barely been in office five minutes.

These sorts of things make the award kind of meaningless 

Okay, I admit I am not a fan of his but even people I know who are devoted were bemused to learn he'd been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. I just don't get it, beyond its being the ultimate sop to the Boomer generation. 

I would imagine the vast majority of people under the age of 50 would have trouble placing the name, and virtually no millennials would have heard of him at all. Not that obscurity has ever been a barrier to winning the prize - since when has the Prize gone to an author the man on the street has even heard of, let alone read? 

Makes you wonder who will be the Nobel Laureate in 2056. Adele? Taylor Swift? Katy Price? 

Chevy

Now you have something in common with many supermodels.

Posey

Plague

Ark

Forty Days

Polar

Smokey

Molasses