November 03, 2005

The Rogue Economist, indeed

I guess you need to sock away a little cash to make sure the trip to Stockholm to pick up your Nobel goes swell: I just had a very nice correspondence with the agent of Steven Levitt (of the University of Chicago and Freakonomics fame) about his speaker's fee: forty grand! Hell, we could get Matt Lauer for less than that, with money left over to supply him with a Whitman's Sampler of oompahloompah whores to satisfy his every metrosexual whim.

Oh well, it would have been fun.

Anyhoo, Freakonomics was still a great read, and I've gone on to read a half a dozen or so of the underlying articles and it's neat and whacky stuff.

Posted by Steve at November 3, 2005 08:42 PM | TrackBack
Comments

How much is Adrienne Barbeau?

Posted by: jeff at November 3, 2005 08:51 PM

I heard you can get Rusty Shackleford for $40, but it has to be in ones and you have agree to drop him off at the local gentleman's club after his talk.

Posted by: Leopold Stotch at November 4, 2005 11:16 AM

You don't show up on Google in a search for "oompahloompah whores".

Posted by: rbj at November 4, 2005 12:56 PM