Quote from fhl:
A man is driving down a road in Montana, when he spots Ted Turner standing in the middle of a huge field of grass. He pulls the car over to the side of the road and notices that Ted is just standing there, doing nothing, looking at nothing.
The man gets out of the car, walks all the way out to Ted and asks him, "Ah excuse me Ted, but what are you doing?"
Ted replies, "I'm trying to win a Nobel Prize."
"How?" asks the man, puzzled.
"Well, I heard they give the Nobel Prize . . . to people who are out standing in their field."