Hee hee... The Ig Nobel's were handed out recently. They're like the Anti-Nobel prize and "honour achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced."

One example: Lal Bihari of Uttar Pradesh in India won this year's "peace prize" for spending 18 years trying to prove he was alive.

Or the chemistry winner, Yukio Hirose of Kanazawa University, for his chemical investigation of a bronze statue, in the city of Kanazawa, that fails to attract pigeons.

Or the bio winner... C.W. Moeliker, of Natuurmuseum Rotterdam, the Netherlands, for documenting the first scientifically recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck. (why oh why oh why would one do this?)


Here's a complete list of winners.