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2007 Ig Nobel Awards Announced

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

prostoalex writes "The annual Ig Noble awards by Annals of Improbable Research were announced tonight. The winners included the scientists who discovered that impotence drugs help with jet lag recovery, "a Dutch researcher who conducted a census of all the creepy-crawlies that share our beds, Spanish scientists who found that rats sometimes could not distinguish between Japanese spoken backwards and Dutch spoken backwards, an Australian woman who documented the indexing problems caused by the word "the", a Japanese researcher who extracted vanilla flavoring from cow dung, and a Taiwanese man who patented a Batman-like device that drops a net over bank robbers," MSNBC says."

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  1. Summary forgot the best part! by SamP2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Gay Bomb which induces enemies to engage in homosexual behavior.

    I wonder how long before it becomes a political weapon of mass discreditation?

    1. Re:Summary forgot the best part! by retro128 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm not sure if it's possible to get our government to screw each other and the public more than they are already.

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    2. Re:Summary forgot the best part! by Dragonslicer · · Score: 4, Funny

      Then again, I seem to recall reading a study where it was found that monkeys who engage in sex often are less aggressive than those who don't. So maybe it should be mandated that politicians get laid at least thrice per week (once per day if they have nukes) ? I guess that does explain quite a bit about Bill Clinton...
  2. just subtract the expenses from revenue by User+956 · · Score: 5, Funny

    a Taiwanese man who patented a Batman-like device that drops a net over bank robbers

    Yes, well, he only developed it because he was interested in the net profit.

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    1. Re:just subtract the expenses from revenue by clarkkent09 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes, and the guy extracted vanilla flavor from cow dung because he was interested in gross profit

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  3. Re:Gay bomb - who tested this? by WilliamSChips · · Score: 4, Funny

    And more importantly, when will this show up on Torchwood?

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