Tuesday, October 18, 2005

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we've all heard of the Nobel prizes right. well recently theres been a ceremony.and its called the Ig Nobel prizes. well what is it about. just think nobel... the opposite! its awards given to scientists and others on their most useless and meaningless and nonsensical and rubbish and lame and retarded and weird and stupid and smart but dumb and cool and dumbfounding and just plain interesting work. let me recap some of them i read on their site. the funniests ones.

PHYSICS: John Mainstone and the late Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland, Australia, for patiently conducting an experiment that began in the year 1927 -- in which a glob of congealed black tar has been slowly, slowly dripping through a funnel, at a rate of approximately one drop every nine years.

PEACE: Claire Rind and Peter Simmons of Newcastle University, in the U.K., for electrically monitoring the activity of a brain cell in a locust while that locust was watching selected highlights from the movie "Star Wars."

i read on and it did say some comments such as, the locusts responded significantly to the X-wing planes. hahah totally hillarious. they also managed to spot glitches and a flaw in darth vaders lightsaber. naw just kidding...

CHEMISTRY: Edward Cussler of the University of Minnesota and Brian Gettelfinger of the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin, for conducting a careful experiment to settle the longstanding scientific question: can people swim faster in syrup or in water?

NUTRITION: Dr. Yoshiro Nakamats of Tokyo, Japan, for photographing and retrospectively analyzing every meal he has consumed during a period of 34 years (and counting).

MEDICINE
Steven Stack of Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA and James Gundlach of Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA, for their published report "The Effect of Country Music on Suicide."

this has got to be the best award ceremony is the world man! either these "scientists" have to much time or they are just very intellectually stimulated. our world is weird. the people that live in our world are weirder. these people are weirder than the world and all the people put together in a very enclosed space and compressed into a chocolate bar and then consumed by a penguin who then slips and gets eaten by a large fish who then swims around and gets eaten by a shark who then gets captured and de-finned and who then gets eaten by us and we therefore become weird!

James Barr at 10:01 AM

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