Betsy Devine tells everyone what happens when your husband wins the Nobel prize for physics:

Nobel Prize and math

There is no Nobel Prize for mathematics*--but there's lots of math involved in Nobel Prizes.

Word problems....

1. If 7 of us fly to Stockholm on the redeye, plot our best distribution onto airplane seats, bearing in mind that Amity's husband Colin has very long legs and neither of Frank's parents should have to sit immobilized for too long.
2. Which will be harder and take more time: to find the required white-tie-and-tails Nobel outfit in Boston and lug it to Stockholm, or to figure our how to take 8 different measurements of my husband and then convert them all into metric so that someone in Stockholm can rent the outfit for him?
3. Rank these four events in order of probabability: Lightning will strike Mel Gibson, Lightning will strike Mel Brooks, Betsy Devine will have triplets nine months from now, Frank Wilczek will need to wear white-tie-and-tails to some event unrelated to Nobel Prizes.

Show all calculations, and remember, neatness counts.

...via Jim Moore's Journal