'Gay bomb' wins 2007 Ig Nobel award

[Hitcher]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4226966a4560.html

How quickly these awards have come around once more!

[deanohit]

"Chemistry" – Mayu Yamamoto of the International Medical Center of Japan, for developing a way to extract vanillin, or vanilla fragrance and flavouring, from cow dung.

"She seems to claim if companies start using this method it might help with global warming because some of all the cow dung that causes problems in the atmosphere will start getting used," Abrahams said in an interview.

I no longer like vanillia ice cream.

[Wolf]

"Chemistry" – Mayu Yamamoto of the International Medical Center of Japan, for developing a way to extract vanillin, or vanilla fragrance and flavouring, from cow dung.

"She seems to claim if companies start using this method it might help with global warming because some of all the cow dung that causes problems in the atmosphere will start getting used," Abrahams said in an interview.

I no longer like vanillia ice cream.

Thank fuck I usually eat boysenberry ripple! (Admittedly only because they've stopped making "cherry and almond", bastards!)

[007XX]

Thank fuck I usually eat boysenberry ripple! (Admittedly only because they've stopped making "cherry and almond", bastards!)

MMmmm, so the Wolf has got a sweet tooth, huh?

I like maple walnut personally...

I didn't know awards like these existed, but I guess it kind of makes sense to have an "off the wall" celebration
Very amusing Mr Hitcher!

[Hitcher]

My favourite is:

"Linguistics" – Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Nuria Sebastian-Galles, of Universitat de Barcelona – for a study showing rats sometimes fail to distinguish between a person speaking Japanese backwards and a person speaking Dutch backwards.

I suspect that some KB members (myself included) would feel empathy for the rats used in this particular study.

[Pancakes]

It's already got seaweed in it,