FUNNY THINGS ON INTERNET

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Finding funny things on Internet for you will replace the compiled News for some time, as they are really boring for the moment, and crimes, wars and other tragedies are really not funny !

Did you ever hear about The Ig Nobel Prizes ? They are a parody of the Nobel Prizes and are given each year around the time the real Nobel Prizes are announced.

I discovered the last once from 2007 :

- Aviation: Patricia V. Agostino, for discovering that hamsters recover from jetlag more quickly when given Viagra.

- Biology: Johanna van Bronswijk, for taking a census of all the mites and other life forms that live in people's bed

- Chemistry: Mayu Yamamoto for extracting vanilla flavour from cow dung.

- Economics: Kuo Cheng Hsieh, for patenting a device to catch bank robbers by ensnaring them in a net.

Linguistics: Juan Manuel Toro, for determining that rats sometimes can't distinguish between Japanese, played backward, and Dutch, played backward.

- Literature: Glenda Browne, for her study of the word "the".

- Medicine: Dan Meyer, for investigating the side-effects of swallowing swords.

- Nutrition: Brian Wansink, for investigating people's appetite for mindless eating by secretly feeding them a self-refilling bowl of soup.

- Peace: The Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, for suggesting the research and development of a "gay bomb," which would cause enemy troops to become sexually attracted to each other.

- Physics: L. Mahadevan for his theoretical study of how sheets become wrinkled.

So don't forget to give Viagra to your Hamster when you travel, pay attention to vanilla flavour it made come out of cow dung and if you have rats, pay attention to the language your are speaking. The poor things may not be able to understand you.