Ig Nobels
The Ig Nobels were recently anounced. These are essentially alternative nobel prizes given for things us poor thick people can understand. Amongst the highlights the Medicine award went to 'The Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage, by Francis Fesmire, Majed Odeh, Harry Bassan and Arie Oliven' (hmm, think I'd rather have hiccups) and the Peace prize was given to Welshman Howard Stapleton for a device which repels anonyning teenagers. Now thats science.
posted by Old Man Rich at 12:59 PM
2 Comments:
I thought you made this up!
It should be noted that the awards are given for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think."
They succeeded.
where do I buy one of those devices????
I love the annual "Darwin Awards" too. There is nothing quite as impressive as some of the ways peoples "deselect" themselves from the Gene Pool.
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