Peace Bro

Oboema Sesetokoe (Michiel Romeyn) - de witte neger uit jiskefet

I still am an Obama fan. But rewarding a guy that is fighting two wars (and probably some secret ones) with a peace prize is too much. I’m glad we have the Ig® Nobel Prizes around. It really makes you laugh and I leave the thinking to the professionals.

"Every Ig® Nobel Prize winner has done something that first makes people laugh then makes them think" states the official site for the prestigious awards ceremony held each year at Harvard University.

In 2007 the Air Force Wright Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, USA, got the peace prize for instigating research & development on a chemical weapon - the so-called "gay bomb" - that will make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other.

Some other milestones were;
• 1995: Shigeru Watanabe, Junko Sakamoto, and Masumi Wakita, of Keio University, for their success in training pigeons to discriminate between the paintings of Picasso and those of Monet.
• 1997: Mark Hostetler of the University of Florida, for his scholarly book, 'That Gunk on Your Car' which identifies the insect splats that appear on automobile windows.
• 2000: The British Royal Navy, for ordering its sailors to stop using live cannon shells, and to instead just shout 'Bang!'.
• 2002: Eduardo Segura, of Lavakan de Aste, in Tarragona, Spain, for inventing a washing machine for cats and dogs.

Here is a complete list of winners and their accomplishments since the Ig® Nobel's inception in 1991, honoring science, technology, and humanity.

Enjoy