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Ig Nobel prize -- Ireland Secures a win

  • 02-10-2009 3:03am
    #1
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭


    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8285380.stm

    Literature: Ireland's police service for writing and presenting more than 50 traffic tickets to the most frequent driving offender in the country - Prawo Jazdy - whose name in Polish means "Driving Licence".


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  • #2
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,739 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    In fairness, that one isn't so bad really.

    I mean who actually speaks polish besides polish people?


  • #3
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    i'm easily amused


  • #4
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    Dont worry they'll catch that Prawo b*stard soon enough.


  • #5
    artanevilla
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,847 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    Will there be an official announcement from the Gards? And who accepted the award?


  • #6
    Mackman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,810 ✭✭✭Mackman


    i admit it, i laughed :)


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  • #7
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    About time our law enforcement got the recognition it deserves.


  • #8
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,555 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    We need to hear more about this one:

    Chemistry: Javier Morales, Miguel Apatiga and Victor M Castano of Universidad Nacional Autonoma in Mexico, for creating diamonds from tequila.


  • #9
    :|
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 960 ✭✭✭:|


    Yes! Finally!

    I also love this one: Physics: Katherine K Whitcome of the University of Cincinnati, Daniel E Lieberman of Harvard University and Liza J. Shapiro of the University of Texas, all in the US, for analytically determining why pregnant women do not tip over.


  • #10
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    minidazzler wrote: »
    In fairness, that one isn't so bad really.

    I mean who actually speaks polish besides polish people?

    The TV licence inspector.


  • #11
    Captain Havoc
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 11,393 Mod ✭✭✭✭Captain Havoc


    Previous winners
    Kees Moeliker, the discoverer of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck, and Dr Francis Fesmire, who devised the digital rectal massage as cure for intractable hiccups.
    :eek:

    https://ormondelanguagetours.com

    Walking Tours of Kilkenny in English, French or German.



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  • #12
    lin lin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 67 ✭✭lin lin


    i will never see the mallard duck in the same way again..


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