And the [Ig] Nobel goes to......

Well people....its that time of the year again.
The wierdest awards in science are back.....you bet, the Ig Nobel.
For the idiots who dunno, the Ig Nobels are a spoof on the actual Nobel prizes, and are well......obviously more entertaining than their 'prim and propah' counterparts.
So....this year's Ig Nobels were given away in an award ceremony on the 5th of October at Harvard's Sanders Theatre (the official site also gives tips on how to "pahk your cah near Hahvud Yahd" (:P)

This year's bunch are :

Mathematics-
Nic Svenson and Piers Barnes of the Australian Commonwealth Scientific Research Organisation, for calculating the number of shots a photographer must take to ensure that nobody in a group photo will have their eyes closed.

Biology-
Bart Knols of Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands and colleague Ruurd de Jong for showing that the female mosquito, which carries malaria, is attracted equally to the smell of cheese and human feet.

Peace-
Howard Stapleton of Merthyr Tydfil , Wales for inventing a teenage repellant - a device that makes a high-pitched noise that is annoying to teenagers but inaudible to most adults. ( :P )

Ornithology-
Ivan Schwab of University of California Davis and the late Philip May of University of California Los Angeles, for explaining why woodpeckers don't get headaches.

Nutrition-
Wasmia Al-Houty of Kuwait University and Faten Al-Mussalam of the Kuwait Environment Public Authority, for showing that dung beetles are finicky eaters.

Acoustics-
D.Lynn Halpern, Randolph Blake and James Hillenbrand of Chicago's Northwestern University, for a 1986 experiment aimed at discovering why the sound of fingernails scrapping on a blackboard is so irritating.

Medicine-
Francis Fesmire of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine and Majed Odeh, Harry Bassan and Arie Oliveh of Bnai Zion Medical Centre in Hafia, Israel who both published studies entitled 'Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage.'

Literature-
Daniel Oppenheimer of Princeton University for his report 'Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly.'

Physics-
Basile Audoly and Sebastien Neukirch of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, in Paris, for their insights into why, when you bend dry spaghetti, it often breaks into more than two pieces.

Chemistry-
Antonio Mulet, José Javier Benedito and José Bon of the University of Valencia, Spain, and Carmen Rosselló of the University of Illes Balears, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, for their study "Ultrasonic Velocity in Cheddar Cheese as Affected by Temperature."

What do I say..................

.........................my comments will come after I'm done snorting.....er......laughing...:P