A few years back, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a story outlining his theory behind why he was never awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature.  The answer: his hatred for Saabs.  Excerpt below, more here.

I used to be the owner and manager of an automobile dealership in West Barnstable, Massachusetts, called “Saab Cape Cod.” It and I went out of business 33 years ago. The Saab then as now was a Swedish car, and I now believe my failure as a dealer so long ago explains what would otherwise remain a deep mystery: Why the Swedes have never given me a Nobel Prize for Literature. Old Norwegian proverb: “Swedes have short dicks but long memories.”

via David Mongan, 30 October 2009 12:23pm | |