Obligatory Post on Krugman's Nobel

In Econ Grad Student Lore (which is as often false as true) it is said that when Maurice Allais got his Nobel prize he said "About freakin' time!", or at least something close to that, maybe in French. Paul Krugman actually seems genuinely surprised to have gotten one, but I'm with Maurice on this one.

Oh yeah, I've never met Krugman (though I've met some other laureates. George Akerlof in particular seems like a very nice person) but I did pass him in the hallway at the AEA meetings when I was on the job market. "Hey that guy's Paul Krugman!" I thought to myself. And then; "Wow, he's sort of short".

Additional thought (added later): And yeah, Krugman was the economist that got me first interested in economics with his popular books. But I expect a lot of people are going to be saying that now (and some of it may be true).