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'Gay bomb' scoops Ig Nobel award
BBC News ^ | 10/04/2007 | Unknown

Posted on 10/05/2007 6:53:47 AM PDT by Pheatius

Pioneering research into a "gay bomb" that makes enemy troops "sexually irresistible" to each other has scooped one of this year's Ig Nobel Prizes.

Other winners included work on treating hamster jetlag with impotency drugs, extracting vanilla from cow dung, and the side-effects of sword swallowing.

The awards, founded in 1991, mark achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think".

The prize ceremony took place at Harvard University, US.

Genuine Nobel Laureates handed out the much-coveted awards to the winners, who took away no cash, but instead received a hand-made prize, a certificate, and, of course, the glory of such an illustrious win.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chitchat; gay; military; science
(I think I know where they have been testing in California.)
1 posted on 10/05/2007 6:53:49 AM PDT by Pheatius
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To: Pheatius

Now I’ve got The Gap Band’s “You Dropped a Bomb on Me” song stuck in my head.

Seems like a good tv sketch.


2 posted on 10/05/2007 7:01:29 AM PDT by Sax
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To: Pheatius

HOMOAB


3 posted on 10/05/2007 7:03:48 AM PDT by Sax
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To: Pheatius

sorry, my hamster is just going to have to suffer

I ain’t sharing


4 posted on 10/05/2007 7:04:32 AM PDT by sure_fine (• " not one to over kill the thought process " •)
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To: Pheatius

Hmmmm. I guess if one can be “turned” gay then homosexuality is not genetic. Maybe there should be some serious thought into creating an anti gay bomb.


5 posted on 10/05/2007 7:15:46 AM PDT by Nomorjer Kinov (If the opposite of "pro" is "con" , what is the opposite of progress?)
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To: Pheatius
Other winners included work on treating hamster jetlag with . . .

Need more coffee because my mind's eye was misreading that.... I suddenly starting envisioning hamster jetpacks.

Hmmm, Hamturo: the Next Generation . . .

6 posted on 10/05/2007 7:17:49 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when you're feeling sad ... Bush's fault.)
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To: Pheatius

The only weapon the San Francisco City Council would endorse.


7 posted on 10/05/2007 7:33:49 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Get Reid and Harkin out of the Senate.)
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To: Sax

*snrk* Good one!


8 posted on 10/05/2007 7:35:31 AM PDT by null and void (<---- Living a life of quiet desperation...)
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To: Nomorjer Kinov
That's a good idea, Nomo. The implications are awesome.

The Gay Bomb could be a gentle means of defeating the enemy by dropping its population to near zero.

On the other hand, the Hetero Bomb could convert, say, San Francisco into a well adjusted city and, in its minibomb version, offer a treatment for the gender confused.

It might even help places like Russia whose future is threatened by depopulation.

The Chinese might want to look into this technology as a means of population control. I'm sure the Clintons could get it for them.

9 posted on 10/05/2007 8:17:38 AM PDT by Savage Beast ("History is not just cruel. It is witty." ~Charles Krauthammer)
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