Ignore the Ig nobels? – Carol Tomany

Not me. I love the fact that there is a group out there willing to comment on some of the insanity in this world. Sometimes someone or some group has to hold up a STOP sign to those pursuing the ever-decreasing circle of their own self importance, lest they do themselves an injury 🙂

Here is the main site – improbable.com/ig with a listing of this year’s winners and an archive for the previous 22 years of winners – just in case you want to see how you can get an award for some really silly ideas or breathe a sigh of relief that someone actually did do a study on – avoiding interior explosions during colonoscopies 🙂

Here are a few others from the archives –

HYGIENE: Eduardo Segura, of Lavakan de Aste, in Tarragona, Spain, for inventing a washing machine for cats and dogs. Hmmmm

LITERATURE: John Richards of Boston, England, founder of The Apostrophe Protection Society, for his efforts to protect, promote, and defend the differences between plural and possessive. Hurray!!!

ART: Don Featherstone of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, for his ornamentally evolutionary invention, the plastic pink flamingo.

REFERENCE: “Pink Flamingos: Splendor on the Grass” I have actually written about this before in Endangered Species

LITERATURE: The British Standards Institution for its six-page specification (BS-6008) of the proper way to make a cup of tea. This, I have to read – obviously I am doing something wrong!!

My photo take on it all –

This might not become as popular as the pink flamingo; but there are possibilities on the east coast anyway.

Have an award winning day!!