Ig Deal
‘AMONG the winners of this years Ig Awards, a spoof of the Nobel Prizes, was a team from University College London, who showed the brains of London taxi drivers were different from average people because they become enlarged in the zone associated with navigation.
A Japanese researcher was honoured for chemistry for his study of a bronze statue that failed to attract pigeons, while an Australian team won the physics award for their fascinating report, An Analysis Of The Forces Required To Drag Sheep Over Various Surfaces.
The Ig Peace Prize was awarded to Indian Lal Bihari for leading an active life even though he had been declared legally dead.
The organisers said he’d waged ‘a lively posthumous campaign’ against bureaucracy and greedy relatives. He was also the man behind the Association of Dead People.
The annual awards are handed out to people whose achievements ‘cannot or should not be reproduced’.’
Posted: 8th, October 2003 | In: Strange But True Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
