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Subject: BS: IGnobel prizes awarded! From: Bill D Date: 24 Sep 12 - 12:14 PM read all about it! I particularly note one for Chongo.."U.S. researchers who discovered that chimps can recognize other chimps by looking at snapshots of their backsides." |
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Subject: RE: BS: IGnobel prizes awarded! From: Little Hawk Date: 24 Sep 12 - 12:25 PM LOL!!!!!!! Some marvelous stuff there, Bill. I think the SpeechJammer should be used on politicians...specially at the party conventions. In the debates each candidate could be supplied with a SpeechJammer which he could use to discombobulate his opponent. Give them water pistols too, so they could retaliate when rendered speechless. |
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Subject: RE: BS: IGnobel prizes awarded! From: John MacKenzie Date: 24 Sep 12 - 12:27 PM One for Spaw too "French researcher Emmanuel Ben-Soussan on how doctors performing colonoscopies can minimize the chance of igniting gasses that make their patients explode. |
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Subject: RE: BS: IGnobel prizes awarded! From: catspaw49 Date: 24 Sep 12 - 12:38 PM I could explode? Well shitfire.....I done had my LAST colonoscopy! They give you thoses clean out laxatives beforehand but back in '99 they were in a hurry and and did the scope prior to giving the laxative full time and I, although I was under anesthesia, managed to crap all over the Doc, his scrubs, his shoes..........It was later when Karen explained why the Doc seemed a bit mad at me and I didn't know why. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: IGnobel prizes awarded! From: Little Hawk Date: 24 Sep 12 - 12:51 PM And they accuse Chongo of poopflinging! |
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Subject: RE: BS: IGnobel prizes awarded! From: Charley Noble Date: 24 Sep 12 - 05:43 PM "U.S. researchers who discovered that chimps can recognize other chimps by looking at snapshots of their backsides." Heck, dogs can do that (other dogs, not chimps) with their eyes shut. Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: IGnobel prizes awarded! From: Little Hawk Date: 24 Sep 12 - 05:47 PM Yup! A dog can smell a fresh sausage that is all the way across town. Their life is an olfactory adventure. |
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Subject: RE: BS: IGnobel prizes awarded! From: Bill D Date: 24 Sep 12 - 07:52 PM Senator William Proxmire used to give a "Golden Fleece Award" for what he considered 'foolish' research projects. There was one such (I'm not sure it was a Proxmire nomination) for a study of "Why children fall off tricycles" It seems that tricycles (at that time) had a high center of gravity, they had only 3 wheels, and children were not always totally attentive and coordinated. |
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Subject: RE: BS: IGnobel prizes awarded! From: Little Hawk Date: 24 Sep 12 - 08:03 PM It's even worse with chimps, Bill. They fall off tricycles at the drop of a G-string. They don't usually get hurt, though. Someone should do a study on why jello wiggles and jiggles. Dan? ;-D |
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Subject: RE: BS: IGnobel prizes awarded! From: Les in Chorlton Date: 25 Sep 12 - 03:24 AM I have woken up especially grumpy or has is thread deserving some kind of award for ....... erm .............. L in C# |
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Subject: RE: BS: IGnobel prizes awarded! From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 25 Sep 12 - 07:25 AM this one is my favourite The U.S. Government General Accountability Office, for issuing a report recommending the preparation of a report to discuss the impact of reports about reports. |
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Subject: RE: BS: IGnobel prizes awarded! From: Charley Noble Date: 25 Sep 12 - 08:52 PM Sandra- "The U.S. Government General Accountability Office, for issuing a report recommending the preparation of a report to discuss the impact of reports about reports." The very reason why I left my employment at the Michigan Occupation Information Coordinating Committee back in 1979. I was the chief researcher and soon concluded that this Committee was totally irrelevant. Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: IGnobel prizes awarded! From: Little Hawk Date: 25 Sep 12 - 11:06 PM Irrelevance is good! It means that the stated objective will never be attained, and that means that the research jobs and the committee and the cash allocations toward same will go on forever. |
