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2006 Ig Nobel Prizes Awarded

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the best-of-the-worst dept.

davidwr writes "The Ig-Nobel Peace Prize went to Howard Stapleton for his groundbreaking research in teenager-repellent technology. D. Lynn Halpern won an award for research into why fingernails on a chalkboard are almost as annoying as teenagers. Ivan Schwab garnered his award for research into avian headacheology. Two french researchers cooked up a medal for spaghetti research. Read more about these and other prizes here and at the Improbable Research official web site. To those Slashdotters who were expecting an award, better luck next year."

11 of 167 comments (clear)

  1. Aww... by Jello+B. · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought my death clock would win this time... Maybe if I make a Smelloscope...

  2. Re:bird eyes? by Skidge · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe he started out researching injuries due to woodpeckers pecking out human eyes and one thing lead to another....

  3. Re:time to use my mod points! by grammar+fascist · · Score: 5, Funny
    electronic teenager repellant: -1, Troll

    Give it five years, and you'll be wondering how you can possibly get along without one.
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  4. No mention for Digital Rectal Massage? by atomicstrawberry · · Score: 5, Funny

    The winner of the medicine prize got it for ground breaking research into curing intractible hiccups by sticking his finger up a patient's anus.

    He also suggests that sex is the most potent cure for hiccups, but that won't really affect anyone on slashdot.

    1. Re:No mention for Digital Rectal Massage? by Dorceon · · Score: 4, Funny

      Now that's the kind of DRM we can all enjoy!

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  5. PC? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    chalkboard
    Is this a politicly correct blackboard or something?

  6. Re:time to use my mod points! by brown-eyed+slug · · Score: 5, Funny
    electronic teenager repellant: -1, Troll

    No, it really works! I've seen no electronic teenagers round here...

    Sorry.
  7. Re:time to use my mod points! by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Funny
    why dry spaghetti breaks into more than one piece when it is bent: -1, Lame

    You seem to miss the significance of that research. Note that the article mentioned the physics Nobel price for big bang research. This spaghetti research is of course very related to the question of how the universe was created. After all, we know it was created by the FSM, and surely bending and breaking spaghetti was an integral part of the act of creation.
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  8. They always said the anal by The+Creator · · Score: 4, Funny

    -ouge hole whas the answer to DRM.

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  9. Re:time to use my mod points! by theonetruekeebler · · Score: 4, Funny
    it's a remarkably difficult problem with a lot of applications (including, methinks, applications to space-station engineering
    Due respect, gard, but I'm not worried about whether my space station breaks into two pieces or three and I'm not going to spend much spare time trying to snap space stations in half. Any event such that my station is in N > 1 pieces has produced N - 1 too many pieces.
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  10. The Quickest Way to Clear Out the Mall: by aquatone282 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Send in a pair of Army recruiters.

    Works like a champ.

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