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 Post subject: Ig Nobel awards
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I always enjoy these.

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I especially like the winner in the management category. :D

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Commander McLane wrote:
I especially like the winner in the management category. :D


I noticed that one too, and am eagerly anticipating my promotion to Supreme Front and Rear Admiral and Overlord of the Oolite bb.

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I noticed that one too, and am eagerly anticipating my promotion to Supreme Front and Rear Admiral and Overlord of the Oolite bb.

I think that’s the principle Giles was working on when he elevated me to admin.

I like the peace prize best… but who would have thought that of fruit bats.

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The winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Physics won a Ignobel Prize ten years ago for levitating live frogs with magnetism.
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We need more randomization here at our workplace. :roll:

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Darkbee wrote:
We need more randomization here at our workplace. :roll:


Are you bucking for a promotion? :wink:

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Darkbee wrote:
We need more randomization here at our workplace. :roll:


Are you bucking for a promotion? :wink:


We'll let the coin decide! ;)

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We'll let the coin decide!

Enter The Dice Man!

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I think my favourites were the scientist's beards - for whatever reason that reminded me of the scientists in Douglas Adams' universe.
those finding out the one thing they really couldn't stand ...

edit - huh, what was that ? font size=0 ? lol
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Another year... another bunch of Ig Nobel awards.

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Literature Prize: John Perry of Stanford University, US, for his Theory of Structured Procrastination, which says: To be a high achiever, always work on something important, using it as a way to avoid doing something that's even more important.

Hey, that's me! :shock:

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Beetles shagging beer bottles: :lol:
Reading this article: priceless

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The Ig Nobel awards are with us again... heh!

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Let's not forget the unsung heroines of the ceremony :)

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