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Heh... this year's awards are entertaining, as ever.
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Cody wrote:
Heh... this year's awards are entertaining, as ever.
My favourite is the award for peace. :mrgreen:
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Commander McLane wrote:
Cody wrote:
Heh... this year's awards are entertaining, as ever.
My favourite is the award for peace.
Yeah! 'What is the sound of one hand clap?'
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Cody wrote:
Commander McLane wrote:
Cody wrote:
Heh... this year's awards are entertaining, as ever.
My favourite is the award for peace.
Yeah! 'What is the sound of one hand clap?'
Presumably the Ukrainian Belarus police know the answer—does it mean that they're enlightened now? :idea: :arrow: :shock:


EDIT: apologies to all Belarus and Ukrainian people for the mixup :oops:
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Presumably the Ukrainian police know the answer—does it mean that they're enlightened now? :idea: :arrow: :shock:
Did you mean the Belarus Police?
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It's that time again.
Physics – To Antoine Fardin, for using fluid dynamics to probe the question "Can a Cat Be Both a Solid and a Liquid?”
El Reg article (and link) here.
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An experiment that hung rhinoceroses upside down to see what effect it had on the animals has been awarded one of this year's Ig Nobel prizes.
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Strangely enough, this had real value and is of benefit to rhinos which need transporting.


I like the Biology Prize:
Biology Prize: Susanne Schötz, for analysing variations in purring, chirping, chattering, trilling, tweedling, murmuring, meowing, moaning, squeaking, hissing, yowling, howling, growling, and other modes of cat-human communication.
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