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2004 Ig Nobel Prizes Announced

Posted by michael on from the she-blinded-me-with-science dept.

ancice writes "The 2004 Ig Nobel prizes are out. Article by New Scientist. An 'invisible gorilla has scooped the 2004 Ig Nobel Prize for Psychology'. And 'dropped food is safe to eat if it has spent no more than five seconds on the floor' - Public Health. Finally, there's proof for the 5 second rule! And for Engineering, 'Patenting of the combover'. Official page with ceremony and lectures."

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  1. DEATH TO THE GNAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. Country music suicide enhancer? by CodeWanker · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    People who listen to country music just have more guts and determination than the poor pansies hooked on 80's rock.

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  3. 2005 Nominee by N8F8 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Too late for the 2004 awards, but for 2005 I hearby nominate John Kerry:

    Applied Method Of Salting The Earth in Another Country Using Radiowaves:

    KERRY: The time line that I've set out -- and again, I want to correct the president, because he's misled again this evening on what I've said. I didn't say I would bring troops out in six months. I said, if we do the things that I've set out and we are successful, we could begin to draw the troops down in six months.

    And I think a critical component of success in Iraq is being able to convince the Iraqis and the Arab world that the United States doesn't have long-term designs on it.

    As I understand it, we're building some 14 military bases there now, and some people say they've got a rather permanent concept to them.

    When you guard the oil ministry, but you don't guard the nuclear facilities, the message to a lot of people is maybe, "Wow, maybe they're interested in our oil."

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  4. So ..... by thempstead · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    .... who slashdotted the site on Herring Farting ...? :)

    t

  5. Re:5 seconds on the floor? by millwall · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What if it lands in dogshit?
    Then enjoy the great taste! Yum!

    Modded as Funny?

    Maybe it was hard to make up any standard beowulf or micro$oft jokes with this article. But really, is tasting dog shit funny?

  6. Re:Winner by Surt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is the foot/hand one supposed to be hard ... I do it right every time. Granted, I'm pretty non-flexible, so the rotations don't get very far.

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    "Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking