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I always enjoy these.
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And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
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I especially like the winner in the management category. :D
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Commander McLane wrote:
I especially like the winner in the management category. :D
I noticed that one too, and am eagerly anticipating my promotion to Supreme Front and Rear Admiral and Overlord of the Oolite bb.
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CheeseRedux wrote:
I noticed that one too, and am eagerly anticipating my promotion to Supreme Front and Rear Admiral and Overlord of the Oolite bb.
I think that’s the principle Giles was working on when he elevated me to admin.

I like the peace prize best… but who would have thought that of fruit bats.
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The winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Physics won a Ignobel Prize ten years ago for levitating live frogs with magnetism.
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We need more randomization here at our workplace. :roll:
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Darkbee wrote:
We need more randomization here at our workplace. :roll:
Are you bucking for a promotion? :wink:
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CheeseRedux wrote:
Darkbee wrote:
We need more randomization here at our workplace. :roll:
Are you bucking for a promotion? :wink:
We'll let the coin decide! ;)
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Darkbee wrote:
We'll let the coin decide!
Enter The Dice Man!
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No dice.
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I think my favourites were the scientist's beards - for whatever reason that reminded me of the scientists in Douglas Adams' universe.
those finding out the one thing they really couldn't stand ...

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Another year... another bunch of Ig Nobel awards.
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Literature Prize: John Perry of Stanford University, US, for his Theory of Structured Procrastination, which says: To be a high achiever, always work on something important, using it as a way to avoid doing something that's even more important.
Hey, that's me! :shock:

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The Ig Nobel awards are with us again... heh!
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Let's not forget the unsung heroines of the ceremony :)
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