If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Go Back   Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum > General > Off-Topic Babbling
Register FAQ Members List Calendar Mark Forums Read

View Poll Results: Should Mr. X win an Ig Nobel for this research?
Absolutely! 1 4.55%
Mr. X is evil and a misfit and should be isolated. 4 18.18%
My what is showing?! 5 22.73%
Mike Tyson. 4 18.18%
KILL THAT PERVERSION KNOWN AS MR. X! 8 36.36%
Voters: 22. You may not vote on this poll

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1 (permalink)  
Old 18-October-2003, 12:01 AM
Mr. X Mr. X is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Planet P
Posts: 871
Default Think you can win an Ig Nobel?

I've got a genius idea for an Ig Nobel prize! Want to read my subject... it's pure genius!

THE EFFECT OF MUSIC ON THE TETRIS PLAYING ABILITIES OF OSTRICHES.

So? What do you think? Is this brilliant or not?

Post all your whacked out crazy ideas in here!

**Warning: It works better after a severe blow to the head if you can spare the blood!
__________________
"...bartenders and shiny stuff and dreams are made of stooped necromancers he seems like a banana wrist having strayed too close to the constellations on their shaved skulls. The rain of frogs ended and a rain of blood comes down. "
Reply With Quote
  #2 (permalink)  
Old 18-October-2003, 12:39 AM
Madcat Madcat is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Wouldn't you rather know my velocity?
Posts: 593
Default

Interspecies Sexual Attraction in American and Asian Rock Crabs.

No seriously, give me five years. I swear.
Reply With Quote
  #3 (permalink)  
Old 18-October-2003, 03:55 AM
Zee'd Zee'd is offline
Junior Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 22
Default

"Effect of Stupidity on Politics and World Order"

not only am i going to get an Ig award, im going to find most of the first world countries trying to arrest/assasinate me
Reply With Quote
  #4 (permalink)  
Old 18-October-2003, 04:34 AM
Mr. X Mr. X is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Planet P
Posts: 871
Default

Good subjects!

Who the hell voted for option 5!?
__________________
"...bartenders and shiny stuff and dreams are made of stooped necromancers he seems like a banana wrist having strayed too close to the constellations on their shaved skulls. The rain of frogs ended and a rain of blood comes down. "
Reply With Quote
  #5 (permalink)  
Old 18-October-2003, 04:44 AM
Quasar Quasar is offline
Junior Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1
Default

Wasn't me! 8-[

But, if you didn't want anybody to answer with that, why post that option?
Reply With Quote
  #6 (permalink)  
Old 18-October-2003, 04:46 AM
Mr. X Mr. X is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Planet P
Posts: 871
Default

*mumbles* I dunno
__________________
"...bartenders and shiny stuff and dreams are made of stooped necromancers he seems like a banana wrist having strayed too close to the constellations on their shaved skulls. The rain of frogs ended and a rain of blood comes down. "
Reply With Quote
  #7 (permalink)  
Old 18-October-2003, 04:54 AM
The Supreme Canuck's Avatar
The Supreme Canuck The Supreme Canuck is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Posts: 6,790
Default

And it's winning, too!

Wow, that's... scary.
__________________
Quaeso quousque humi defixa tua mens erit? Nonne aspicis, quae in templa veneris?
Reply With Quote
  #8 (permalink)  
Old 18-October-2003, 05:06 AM
Musashi's Avatar
Musashi Musashi is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Fullerton, CA USA
Posts: 4,229
Send a message via AIM to Musashi
Default

I voted for Tyson only because there wasn't a Musashi dressed as a woman in a blue wig with grapefruit anatomy posing as a martial arts expert.
__________________
Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum,
þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.
Reply With Quote
  #9 (permalink)  
Old 18-October-2003, 05:07 AM
The Supreme Canuck's Avatar
The Supreme Canuck The Supreme Canuck is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Posts: 6,790
Default

I did not want to picture that!
__________________
Quaeso quousque humi defixa tua mens erit? Nonne aspicis, quae in templa veneris?
Reply With Quote
  #10 (permalink)  
Old 18-October-2003, 06:17 AM
Humphrey's Avatar
Humphrey Humphrey is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: G'Topia
Posts: 3,481
Send a message via ICQ to Humphrey Send a message via AIM to Humphrey Send a message via MSN to Humphrey
Default

I am going to study the correct temperature to chill Diet coke so it will always be refreshingly cool without causing any of the tastes or carbonation to be lost.


Plus I will also study on the side the effect of the Sun's rays on a nerd. :-)
Reply With Quote
  #11 (permalink)  
Old 18-October-2003, 06:19 AM
Musashi's Avatar
Musashi Musashi is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Fullerton, CA USA
Posts: 4,229
Send a message via AIM to Musashi
Default

If I were you I would work on making the Diet coke lose all of its flavor since it tastes horrible!
__________________
Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum,
þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.
Reply With Quote
  #12 (permalink)  
Old 18-October-2003, 07:02 AM
mike alexander's Avatar
mike alexander mike alexander is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: People's Republic of Oregon
Posts: 5,840
Default

File Compression Algorithms and Ivy League Songs VI: Boola^14*EliYale.
__________________
The Devil offered me power. I told him I preferred aperture.
Reply With Quote
  #13 (permalink)  
Old 18-October-2003, 12:42 PM
Gmann Gmann is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: St. Louis, MO
Posts: 774
Send a message via AIM to Gmann
Default

Can Brain death be survived? Postal Service supervisors studied in depth. 8-[
That will have to do since "Juxtabranchial organ secretions in the higher mollusks" also comes to mind, but I stole that one from a Doonesbury comic strip I read several years ago. [-X
__________________
Those who repeat History are doomed to learn it.
Reply With Quote
  #14 (permalink)  
Old 18-October-2003, 03:52 PM
Mr. X Mr. X is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Planet P
Posts: 871
Default

So my psychiatrist IS nuts! You people really are out to kill me!

So the truth comes out at last...

I just wonder if Phil has voted for option 5... 8-[
__________________
"...bartenders and shiny stuff and dreams are made of stooped necromancers he seems like a banana wrist having strayed too close to the constellations on their shaved skulls. The rain of frogs ended and a rain of blood comes down. "
Reply With Quote
  #15 (permalink)  
Old 18-October-2003, 03:59 PM
Mr. X Mr. X is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Planet P
Posts: 871
Default

BTW great subjects!
__________________
"...bartenders and shiny stuff and dreams are made of stooped necromancers he seems like a banana wrist having strayed too close to the constellations on their shaved skulls. The rain of frogs ended and a rain of blood comes down. "
Reply With Quote
  #16 (permalink)  
Old 18-October-2003, 10:27 PM
Sever's Avatar
Sever Sever is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Somewhere.
Posts: 480
Send a message via AIM to Sever Send a message via MSN to Sever
Default

The result of "douseing a Furby in gasoline and then firing it out of a potato cannon into a old car full of plastic exploisves, then dodgeing the resulting fire-ball and shrapnel" effect on mutant cyborg chcikens.
Reply With Quote
  #17 (permalink)  
Old 18-October-2003, 11:52 PM
NASA Fan's Avatar
NASA Fan NASA Fan is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 835
Default

If I did not "know" you folks, you would scare me.
__________________
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

--Niels Bohr, Danish Physicist.
Reply With Quote
  #18 (permalink)  
Old 19-October-2003, 12:50 AM
Sever's Avatar
Sever Sever is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Somewhere.
Posts: 480
Send a message via AIM to Sever Send a message via MSN to Sever
Default

Don't feel bad NASA Fan, I scare everyone.
Reply With Quote
  #19 (permalink)  
Old 19-October-2003, 12:57 AM
Blondin's Avatar
Blondin Blondin is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Canader, eh?
Posts: 44
Default

I live in a town that is home to a recent Ignobel Prize winner: one Troy Hurtubise (Mr. Project Grizzly). The sad thing is that he still brags about his Iggy like it was a real honor, he really doesn't get it.

"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
-- Carl Sagan

...and whenever I see Troy I point and laugh, too.

edited to add: http://www.onf.ca/grizzly/index.html
__________________
Heisenberg was here (probably).
Reply With Quote
  #20 (permalink)  
Old 19-October-2003, 12:59 AM
NASA Fan's Avatar
NASA Fan NASA Fan is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 835
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sever
Don't feel bad NASA Fan, I scare everyone.
No no no, my point is that because I know you, you do not scare me.
__________________
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

--Niels Bohr, Danish Physicist.
Reply With Quote
  #21 (permalink)  
Old 19-October-2003, 02:30 PM
Ikyoto Ikyoto is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: 0,0,0
Posts: 134
Default

I think a study on the effects of studies would be good...
__________________
What would Scoobie do?

And here is where the other stuff is.
Reply With Quote
  #22 (permalink)  
Old 19-October-2003, 07:20 PM
Humphrey's Avatar
Humphrey Humphrey is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: G'Topia
Posts: 3,481
Send a message via ICQ to Humphrey Send a message via AIM to Humphrey Send a message via MSN to Humphrey