Ig Nobel awards

Crumpets · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 7800 **Location:**

Snippet wrote:

CAMBRIDGE, United States (AFP) - Scientists who discovered that Viagra helps hamsters overcome jet-lag and managed to extract vanilla favoring from cow dung took center stage Thursday at the 17th annual Ig Nobel Awards."

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The prestigious peace prize was given to a US Air Force laboratory for researching what the committee dubbed the "gay bomb" -- a chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other.

LOL.

Breed · **Posted:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:24 am

I don't know whether to laugh or make a witty remark....
Well good for them, 2 thumbs up from me

Key-J · **Posted:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:33 am

I mentioned this is Class today. We went completely off topic and spent about an hour discussing this...

Great Lesson

Dark Shifty · **Joined:** Jun 2007 **Posts:** 1322 **Location:**

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The prestigious peace prize was given to a US Air Force laboratory for researching what the committee dubbed the "gay bomb" -- a chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other.

quote of the year maybe?

-Evan · **Posted:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 10:14 am

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The prestigious peace prize was given to a US Air Force laboratory for researching what the committee dubbed the "gay bomb" -- a chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other.

Japanese researcher Mayu Yamamoto, who received the chemistry Ig, got an additional honor: a local ice cream shop created a new flavor, the "Yum-a-Moto Vanilla Twist," to honor her work extracting vanilla flavor from cow dung.

Dung = Crap right?...

Crumpets · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 7800 **Location:**

-Evan wrote:

Dung = Crap right?...

Correct. As much as vanilla is nice .. I rather not have Vanilla: Originated in Dung.

StealMySoda · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 5245 **Location:**

Wow. Thats messed up. Guess they are running out of people to give awards to

Sylhana · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 3467 **Location:**

Dark Shifty wrote:

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The prestigious peace prize was given to a US Air Force laboratory for researching what the committee dubbed the "gay bomb" -- a chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other.

quote of the year maybe?

"Make love not war" gets a new meaning :roll:

XCaosX · **Posted:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:21 pm

Sylhana wrote:

Dark Shifty wrote:

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The prestigious peace prize was given to a US Air Force laboratory for researching what the committee dubbed the "gay bomb" -- a chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other.

quote of the year maybe?

"Make love not war" gets a new meaning :roll:

....lol
ahhh gay wars...blehhh

gamef · **Joined:** Dec 2006 **Posts:** 2290 **Location:** London

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The prestigious peace prize was given to a US Air Force laboratory for researching what the committee dubbed the "gay bomb" -- a chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other.

LOL!

[SD]Twysta · **Posted:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:27 pm

lol thats funny, a "Gay-Bomb". ahaha

Sylhana · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 3467 **Location:**

[SD]Twysta wrote:

lol thats funny, a "Gay-Bomb". ahaha

:In a combat situation facing the enemy at gunpoint:

:KABLAAAM!!!: a bomb drops... a gay bomb..

Soldier 1: I would shoot you but..
Enemy 1: but what?.. :knowing look:
Soldier 1: I would rather shoot on you, if you know what I mean

Enemy 1: oh yeah..
[The rest of the scene was deemed inappropriate for younger readers]

Shadowman20818 · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 1506

Sylhana wrote:

[SD]Twysta wrote:

lol thats funny, a "Gay-Bomb". ahaha

:In a combat situation facing the enemy at gunpoint:

:KABLAAAM!!!: a bomb drops... a gay bomb..

Soldier 1: I would shoot you but..
Enemy 1: αλλά τι;.. :knowing κοιτάζουν:
Soldier 1: I would rather shoot on you, if you know what I mean

Enemy 1: OH .. ναι
[The rest of the scene was deemed inappropriate for younger readers]

Fixed.

BlackFox · **Posted:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 3:40 pm

LMAO so the get award for it :roll:

well the weapon maybe is better then kill the enemy.

[SD]Twysta · **Posted:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:09 pm

wtf shadowman, you type some russion shit in there O_O

Shadowman20818 · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 1506

I don't see two english speaking countries fighting each other in the near future, needed realism.

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