[olePigeon]

Incase anyone was wondering, the Ig Nobel Prizes are a parody of the Nobel Prizes and are given each year in early October for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think".

2009 Winners were announced. I think my favorite this year is the guy that cracked the knuckles of just his left hand for nearly 60 years to find out if cracking knuckles leads to worse arthritis. I actually found that one genuinely interesting.

The one that made me laugh last year was:

CHEMISTRY PRIZE. Sharee A. Umpierre of the University of Puerto Rico, Joseph A. Hill of The Fertility Centers of New England (USA), Deborah J. Anderson of Boston University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School (USA), for discovering that Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide, and to Chuang-Ye Hong of Taipei Medical University (Taiwan), C.C. Shieh, P. Wu, and B.N. Chiang (all of Taiwan) for discovering that it is not.

[osiris]

Hm, Coca-Cola as an effective spermicide.

[olePigeon]

Originally Posted by osiris 

Hm, Coca-Cola as an effective spermicide.

In case you missed it, "...and to Chuang-Ye Hong of Taipei Medical University (Taiwan), C.C. Shieh, P. Wu, and B.N. Chiang (all of Taiwan) for discovering that it is not."

[ShortcutToMoncton]

MATHEMATICS PRIZE: Gideon Gono, governor of Zimbabwe’s Reserve Bank, for giving people a simple, everyday way to cope with a wide range of numbers — from very small to very big — by having his bank print bank notes with denominations ranging from one cent ($.01) to one hundred trillion dollars ($100,000,000,000,000).

[osiris]

Originally Posted by olePigeon 

In case you missed it, "...and to Chuang-Ye Hong of Taipei Medical University (Taiwan), C.C. Shieh, P. Wu, and B.N. Chiang (all of Taiwan) for discovering that it is not."

Perhaps they used Diet Coke by mistake.
Or maybe their boys can really swim!