T]he 15th Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony was held at Sander’s Theater at Harvard University on Oct. 6, 2005 (VIDEO). Winners, reports Slashdot, include:
- Will Humans Swim Faster or Slower in Syrup? (Chemistry),
- Electrically monitoring the activity of a brain cell in a locust while that locust was watching selected highlights from the movie “Star Wars” (Peace),
- The Significance of Mr. Richard Buckley’s Exploding Trousers (Agricultural History) and
- many more.
The keynote address of the Oct. 6 ceremony was by “2003 Ig Nobel Biology Prize winner Kees Moeliker (who documented the first scientifically recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck).” OPEN THREAD:
I’ve updated my Bush poll numbers diary with the latest numbers from a new AP-IPSOS poll. Of note from the AP article is this quote:
That, imho, is huge.
Bush is losing his core base.
Any wonder?
OMG! I hadn’t seen that before! I think I’ve just found my new desktop or screensaver! ROTFLMFAO!!
Blair on the left of the image? hee hee
left of Bush.
That’s fate paying me back for implying Bush is stupid.
He looks a bit like that mug shot photo of Nick Nolte sometime back.
Bill Maher used that — the Nolte pic — on a segment of his show two weeks ago, photoshopping Bush’s face for Nolte’s as “evidence” (in a satirical sense) that Bush is back on the bottle. Chris Hitchens was on the panel, and scowled at how unfair it all was. Lord, how far Hitch has fallen into the muck of corruption!
From the “if you can’t beat ’em, smear ’em” department:
Prosecutor Ronnie Earle “and his staff engaged in an extraordinarily irregular and desperate attempt to contrive a viable charge and get a substitute indictment of Tom Delay before the expiration of the statute of limitations,” DeLay’s attorney Dick DeGuerin said in a court filing alleging prosecutorial misconduct.
“These claims have no merit,” Earle said in a statement. “Because of the laws protecting grand jury secrecy, no other comments can be made. The investigation is continuing.”
DeGuerin alleged that Earle unlawfully participated in grand jury deliberations when he went to a second grand jury last week to seek a second indictment against the Texas Republican. He also said Earle illegally discussed grand jury information and encouraged others to do the same.
Gee,I once wrote a short treatise on “The Magnetic Attraction of Red Wine to New and Unsullied White Clothing”.
Do I get a nomination?
I’ll write one up for you. Who was it that wrote a nobel proze nomination for someone that we all laughed about not long ago? My memory fails me…
I don’t remember-I Do remember a 500,000 study conducted by some agency of the U.S. Gov. ,that unearthed the amazing data that most people use the right,front burners on the stoves most often. SURPRISE!!!
Interesting. I use the left front burner most often. Then again, I’m a lefty rebel…
Found it! A doctor involved in the Schiavo case (Dr. Hammesfahr) was nominated by a “clueless Florida Congressman who actually nominated him for the “Nobel Peace Prize for Medicine”.
Correction- Think it was more like 100K- but still!
Headline on fark.com “Salman Rushdie criticizes ‘intelligent design’, Kansas issues fatwa” – link to article
I should have added this quote. Rushdie doesn’t like The Da Vinci Code much:
“Even Dan Brown must live,” he said. “Preferably not write, but live.”
rofl
Kind of interesting from a guy who wrote a massive overstuffed tome satirizing Islam….
(And, no, before I get flamed up and down this thread, no one should kill Rushdie for that either, just not read the bloody thing.)
whether you like him or not, you have to admit that was a funny line. 🙂
Most of the jokes only work if you are Muslim, though. Or rather ex-Muslim! 😀
bushie-poo never HAD a ‘base’-he fooled a bunch of suckers is all-the suckers who fell for the promises that for some reason they wanted to believe.Now that may be Rove- I don’t know at all about that– but the tactic worked and it is coming home to roost- just like the chickenhawks will eventually come and gobble up the chickenshits who want to be ‘protected’. BAH
… made an interesting observation tonight while we watched the Angels and Yanks game. She said, “I believe in the power of the Rally Monkey!” I laughed a little bit, and she said, “Hey, it’s as logical as that guy crossing himself before stepping into the batter’s box.”
How’s that for some perspective?
After something like 8 or nine years of running balanced budgets waht do those Canadians go and do?
And they have universal healthcare too?
How does this look to those fiscally responsible White House administrators?
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WHOOPS! Forgot to LINK that story!
yeah…that and those energy rebates we’re getting…sucks huh?
mwahahaha…
umm…you forgot this new commie program too..
Hey, Commie … we’ve got our MINUTEMEN stationed at your border now!
Yeah – They’re all facing south to keep us in, LOL.
heh – if they only last for a minute, I’m not interested.