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Ig Nobels Feature Exploding Colonoscopies, Left Leaning Views of Eiffel Tower

alphadogg writes "The Ig Nobel Prize ceremony has honored a wide array of strange research and advancement over the years, from exploding pants to woodpecker headaches to aggressive parking enforcement, and Thursday night's ceremony in Cambridge, Mass., was no exception. Particular highlights included a Russian company that turns ammunition into trace amounts of diamond, Japanese engineers who developed a speech jamming device, and research into such critical topics as why coffee is so hard to carry without slopping and what makes a ponytail move the way it does."

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  1. Speech Jamming Device by BlkRb0t · · Score: 5, Funny

    Husbands, take notice.

    1. Re:Speech Jamming Device by William+Robinson · · Score: 5, Funny

      Husbands, take notice.

      I would think about it later. Do they have anything on 'how to attract chicks'!!

    2. Re:Speech Jamming Device by NettiWelho · · Score: 5, Funny

      Money.

    3. Re:Speech Jamming Device by broginator · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yeah, broads hate it when you call 'em chicks.

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  2. The real question is by Hentes · · Score: 1, Funny

    Which way does the Pisa tower lean?

    1. Re:The real question is by isorox · · Score: 3, Funny

      Which way does the Pisa tower lean?

      Sideways. Apart from when Evil Superman fixes it.

    2. Re:The real question is by JustOK · · Score: 3, Funny

      what does IOS6 maps show?

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    3. Re:The real question is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      what does IOS6 maps show?

      That it's switched places with a small, defunct candle factory near Shrewsbury.

  3. Re:The double laureate by khallow · · Score: 4, Funny

    The challenge will be to get them for the same research.

  4. Re:No significant effects? by mcgrew · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's the difference between a job and a wife?

    After three years the job still sucks.