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| Chimney |
Cola is spermicide..?
*looks at the bottle of Pepsi besides him*
I'm in the safe zone, right? |
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| Ivand |
* Biology: Marie-Christine Cadiergues, Christel Joubert, and Michel Franc, for discovering that fleas that live on dogs jump higher than fleas that live on cats.[32]
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| bananas |
| Yeah, seen this sometime before, pretty fun :) |
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| Sushipunk |
Lol.
Art - Presented jointly to Jim Knowlton, modern Renaissance man, for his classic anatomy poster "Penises of the Animal Kingdom," and to the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts, for encouraging Mr. Knowlton to extend his work in the form of a pop-up book.
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| Bernd_Gradish |
Mathematics - Presented to Robert W. Faid of Greenville, South Carolina, farsighted and faithful seer of statistics, for calculating the exact odds (860,609,175,188, 282,100 to 1) that Mikhail Gorbachev is the Antichrist.
lulz is everywhere! :wtf: |
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| Sh!fty |
Nutrition: Brian Wansink, for investigating people's appetite for mindless eating by secretly feeding them a self-refilling bowl of soup
:haha: :haha: :haha |
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| Simon_N |
Peace: The Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, for suggesting the research and development of a "gay bomb," which would cause enemy troops to become sexually attracted to each other.
hahaha |
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| Lira |
Linguistics: Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Nuria Sebastian-Galles, for determining that rats sometimes can't distinguish between recordings of Japanese and Dutch played backward.[24]
Genius! :stongue:
By the way, Brazilians are really proud of these two:
Archaeology: Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araujo and Jose Carlos Marcelino, for showing that armadillos can mix up the contents of an archaeological site.[30][31]
They're the only Brazilians to have ever received a Nobel prize... even if it's just the Ig Nobel :p |
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| Lomeli |
| Medicine - Presented to Gregg A. Miller of Oak Grove, Missouri, in the U.S.A., for inventing Neuticles — artificial replacement testicles for dogs, which are available in three sizes, and three degrees of firmness. |
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| tachobg |
Nutrition: Massimiliano Zampini and Charles Spence, for demonstrating that food tastes better when it sounds more appealing
lol at their paper title:
Zampini, Massimiliano; Spence, Charles (October 2004), "The Role of Auditory Cues in Modulating the Perceived Crispness and Staleness of Potato Chips", Journal of Sensory Studies |
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| Rose |
| Literature - Presented to the Internet entrepreneurs of Nigeria, for creating and then using e-mail to distribute a bold series of short stories, thus introducing millions of readers to a cast of rich characters — General Sani Abacha, Mrs. Mariam Sanni Abacha, Barrister Jon A Mbeki Esq., and others — each of whom requires just a small amount of expense money so as to obtain access to the great wealth to which they are entitled and which they would like to share with the kind person who assists them. (See advance fee fraud). |
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