by plsmith » Sat Oct 01, 2005 6:55 pm
<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Need a few 'intelligent' laughs? Give yourself a treat and surf this site, where all past winners of Harvard's Ig Nobel Prize are immortalized in ether. The 2005 Ig Nobel ceremony takes place October 6th. </em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>A few choice bits from 2003: </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Ig Nobel Prize in PHYSICS</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> went to seven Australians, for their report "An Analysis of the Forces Required to Drag Sheep over Various Surfaces."<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Ig Nobel Prize for PEACE</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> went to Lal Bihari, of Uttar Pradesh, India, for a triple accomplishment: First, for leading an active life even though he has been declared legally dead; Second, for waging a lively posthumous campaign against bureaucratic inertia and greedy relatives; and Third, for creating the Association of Dead People.<br>WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL CEREMONY: Lal Bihari overcame the handicap of being dead, and managed to obtain a passport from the Indian government so that he could travel to Harvard to accept his Prize. However, the U.S. government refused to allow him into the country. His friend Madhu Kapoor therefore came to the Ig Nobel Ceremony and accepted the Prize on behalf of Lal Bihari. Several weeks later, the Prize was presented to Lal Bihari himself in a special ceremony in India. [NOTE: Filmmaker Satish Kaushik will be making a film about the life (and death and life) of Lal Bihari.]<br><br><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html">www.improbable.com/ig/ig-...nners.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
