The 2007 IgNoble Awards

[sandgk]

Priceless science at any cost - the IgNoble Awards:

Ohio makes the list with the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton.

Most winners are more than happy to accept their awards from real Nobel Laureates at the typically rowdy ceremony, including seven of the 10 winners this year. But there are still a few sticks-in-the-mud, magazine editor Marc Abrahams said.
The U.S. Air Force won the Ig Nobel Peace Prize this year for its proposal to develop a ?gay bomb? ? a chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers want to make love with each other, not war with the enemy.
Abrahams talked to a number of retired and active Air Force personnel to try to get someone to accept the prize in person on behalf of the military. None would.
?Who in their right mind would turn something like this down?? Wansink said.

Other award winners? (Wikipedia)

Literature: Glenda Browne, for her study of the word "the".

• Chemistry: Mayu Yamamoto for extracting vanilla flavor from cow dung.
• Medicine: Dan Meyer and Brian Witcombe, for investigating the side-effects of swallowing swords.
• Aviation: Patricia V. Agostino, Santiago A. Plano and Diego A. Golombek, for discovering that hamsters recover from jetlag more quickly when given viagra.

Viagra and Hamsters - relief from jet-lag? Maybe it was all the humping to make the mile high club.

 

[SanAntonioBuck]

The US Air Force won't accept the "gay bomb" award!

 

[Saw31]

Hamsters and Viagra? Sounds like a Saturday night at BB73's...

 

[OCBuckWife]

Nutrition: Brian Wansink, for investigating people's appetites by secretly feeding them a self-refilling bowl of soup.

I'm not sure about the rest of humanity but I am 99.999% certain I would notice if a bowl of soup never emptied or refilled after I stepped away from the table for a minute.

 

[BB73]

Hamsters and Viagra? Sounds like a Saturday night at BB73's...

If those fuckers slip out of my hands when I take them out of the cage, it takes so long to catch them that sometimes I need that shit to last for more than 4 hours.

 

[DaytonBuck]

Where's alchemy?

 

[Gatorubet]

Where's alchemy?

Replaced by Faith-based chemistry