Estamos en Europa, Barcelona para ser mas precisos, pero a este blog que busca el humor en todas sus formas y expresiones, este blog que se rie con las cosas mas sutiles y al mismo tiempo llor... buen, ya. Se viene un post que nada que ver con el viaje actual, un poco de delirio por favor... maestro, si es tan amable.
Por medio de
Clarinete, encontre la editorial acerca de la
"Desopilante entrega de los Anti Nobel". Y como suele suceder con el maravilloso diario, se quedaron cortos con la noticia ya que daba para mucho, mucho mas... pero como no pueden hacerlo por razones que no vienen al caso ni nos interesan, he aqui su blog amigo para darle el valor que merece.
Los invito a darse una recorrida por los
premios de años pasados que son para relamerse los bigotes. Dejo los comments abiertos para quien quiera destacar tal o cual que haya sido de su beneplácito, y mientras tanto hago MI selección sin orden ni concierto:
Notas
- lo dejo todo en ingles, sepan disculpar los no-hablantes.
- no pongo links ni las referencias completas a las fuentes originales, sepan disculpar los autores, no es de mal tipo.
- NUTRITION
John Martinez of J. Martinez & Company in Atlanta, for Luak Coffee, the world's most expensive coffee, which is made from coffee beans ingested and excreted by the luak (aka, the palm civet), a bobcat-like animal native to Indonesia.
[un grande John Martinez con ese nombre y su empresa]
- PUBLIC HEALTH
Ellen Kleist of Nuuk, Greenland and Harald Moi of Oslo, Norway, for their cautionary medical report "Transmission of Gonorrhea Through an Inflatable Doll." [Published in "Genitourinary Medicine,"]
- STATISTICS
Jerald Bain of Mt. Sinai Hospital in Toronto and Kerry Siminoski of the University of Alberta for their carefully measured report, "The Relationship Among Height, Penile Length, and Foot Size."
[Published in "Annals of Sex Research,"]
- PHYSICS
Dr. Len Fisher of Bath, England and Sydney, Australia for calculating the optimal way to dunk a biscuit.
- CHEMISTRY
Donatella Marazziti, Alessandra Rossi, and Giovanni B. Cassano of the University of Pisa, and Hagop S. Akiskal of the University of California (San Diego), for their discovery that, biochemically, romantic love may be indistinguishable from having severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
[REFERENCE: "Alteration of the platelet serotonin transporter in romantic love,"]
- ASTROPHYSICS
Dr. Jack and Rexella Van Impe of Jack Van Impe Ministries, Rochester Hills, Michigan, for their discovery that black holes fulfill all the technical requirements to be the location of Hell.
[REFERENCE: The March 31, 2001 television and Internet broadcast of the "Jack Van Impe Presents" program.]
- CHEMISTRY
Yukio Hirose of Kanazawa University, for his chemical investigation of a bronze statue, in the city of Kanazawa, that fails to attract pigeons.
- ECONOMICS
Karl Schwärzler and the nation of Liechtenstein, for making it possible to rent the entire country for corporate conventions, weddings, bar mitzvahs, and other gatherings.
(update: volví para agregar este último, es demasiado..)
- PEACE
John Hagelin of Maharishi University and The Institute of Science,
Technology and Public Policy, promulgator of peaceful thoughts,
for his experimental conclusion that 4,000 trained meditators
caused an 18 percent decrease in violent crime in Washington, D.C.
Y hay mas.. muchas muchas mas.
Disfrutenlon.
SurNorEste. Siempre al servicio de la difusión de lo mas ridiculo (
and yet, genial)