{"id":5611,"date":"2012-09-24T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=5611"},"modified":"2026-01-15T18:31:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:31:58","slug":"ignore-the-ig-nobels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=5611","title":{"rendered":"Ignore the Ig nobels?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Here is the main site – improbable.com\/ig<\/a> 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 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Here are a few others from the archives –
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\nHYGIENE<\/b><\/span>: Eduardo Segura, of<\/span> <\/span>Lavakan de Aste<\/a><\/span>, in Tarragona, Spain, for inventing a<\/span> <\/span>washing machine for cats and dogs<\/a><\/span>.  Hmmmm<\/span>
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\nLITERATURE<\/b>: John Richards<\/a> of Boston, England, founder of The Apostrophe Protection Society<\/a>, for his efforts to protect, promote, and defend the differences between plural and possessive.  Hurray!!!<\/span>
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\nART<\/b>: Don Featherstone<\/a> of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, for his ornamentally evolutionary invention, the plastic pink flamingo<\/a>. <\/div>\n
\nREFERENCE: “Pink Flamingos: Splendor on the Grass<\/a>”  <\/i>I have actually written about this before in Endangered Species<\/a><\/div>\n
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LITERATURE<\/b>: The British Standards Institution<\/a> for its six-page specification (BS-6008)<\/a> of the proper way to make a cup of tea. This, I have to read – obviously I am doing something wrong!!<\/span>
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\nMy photo take on it all – <\/span>
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\nThis might not become as popular as the pink flamingo; but there are possibilities on the east coast anyway.<\/span>
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\nHave an award winning day!!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 \ud83d\ude42 Here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unicorns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5612,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611\/revisions\/5612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}