The keynote address on Thursday will be given by the 2003 Ig Nobel Biology laureate Kees Moeliker, who won for documenting the first -- and so far only -- recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck.
Those of you who don't know, let me tell you, "I secured the dead duck and left the museum at 19.25 hours. The mallard was still present at the site, calling 'raeb-raeb' and apparently looking for his victim (who, by then, was in the freezer)."
"There is also an Ig Nobel Peace Prize, won last year by Daisuke Inoue, the Japanese inventor of karaoke who was cited for "providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other."
I once thought that mallard's might be nice imagery at my wedding since so many of them are homos, but then I quickly realized that the invitation would look like those Hallmark Father's Day cards that feature the idyllic pond scenes that once said "I know you like hunting Dad" but now say "you estranged workaholic bastard, I have no idea who you are or why you abandoned your family but the card company demand I buy you something today."
Now I am thinking how pretty a boy duck mounting an expired boy duck would look, perhaps on ivory . . . with gold trim.
you are so right--that's one home decoration I could spend money on. A friend of mine and I tried to go to Laurelhurst Park to witness the savage mating rituals of ducks, but when we got there, they had paired off already, and it was uncomfortably Hallmarklike. I posted about it back in the spring.
...the inventor of neuticles, prosthetic testicles for neutered dogs. He won the Ig, not only for his scientific contributions, but also for salvaging the self-esteem of many a male canine.
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I can't believe I'm interested in this.
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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20051005/od_afp/afplifestyleusnobel_051005144823
if you were referring to the necrophiliac homosexual ducks, I beg you to read the following:
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,1432972,00.html
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"There is also an Ig Nobel Peace Prize, won last year by Daisuke Inoue, the Japanese inventor of karaoke who was cited for "providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other."
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Now I am thinking how pretty a boy duck mounting an expired boy duck would look, perhaps on ivory . . . with gold trim.
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...the inventor of neuticles, prosthetic testicles for neutered dogs. He won the Ig, not only for his scientific contributions, but also for salvaging the self-esteem of many a male canine.
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-MK
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