Um, Sweden?

[Reginald Ret]

I think part of the fun is not being allowed to burn or helicopter-goatnap but doing it anyway. I am looking forward to more creative forms of goatdestruction in the future. Maybe dissolve in acid as a tribute to the Nobel Prize?

[Pergamos]

I think part of the fun is not being allowed to burn or helicopter-goatnap but doing it anyway. I am looking forward to more creative forms of goatdestruction in the future. Maybe dissolve in acid as a tribute to the Nobel Prize?

Wouldn't dynamiting the goat be more nobel?

[carnival]

[Reginald Ret]

I think part of the fun is not being allowed to burn or helicopter-goatnap but doing it anyway. I am looking forward to more creative forms of goatdestruction in the future. Maybe dissolve in acid as a tribute to the Nobel Prize?

Wouldn't dynamiting the goat be more nobel?

When Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of German physicists Max von Laue (1914) and James Franck (1925) in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from confiscating them. The German government had prohibited Germans from accepting or keeping any Nobel Prize after jailed peace activist Carl von Ossietzky had received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1935. De Hevesy placed the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute. It was subsequently ignored by the Nazis who thought the jar—one of perhaps hundreds on the shelving—contained common chemicals. After the war, de Hevesy returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the gold out of the acid. The gold was returned to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation. They re-cast the medals and again presented them to Laue and Franck.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I like that the goat has its own twitter account and apologized for its needing to leave. It makes it that much more sadfunny. I like that one year a helicopter was involved. I like how theres a goat committee and the goat committee in their exasperation have to go why cant people just leave the goat alone. Its all brilliant.