flaunt your genome
Gary Williams
1999-05-16 Flaunt Your Genome
Was your ancestor a famous scientist or inventor? If so, would you
like to join us on stage at this year's Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony?
The theme of this year's ceremony will be "Heredity." As
part of the festivities, we will introduce the nth-generation
offspring of great figures in science. They (you?) will be duty-
free authority figures, teaming up with several Nobel Laureates
and with our presiding monarchs, the curiously beloved Swedish
Meatball Queen and King.
The ceremony will occur on Thursday evening, September 30 at
Harvard's Sanders Theatre, and will be televised live on the
Internet, as well as recorded for later broadcast on National
Public Radio's "Science Friday" program.
If you stick around town until Saturday, June 2, you can
join us on stage again, at MIT's Kresge Auditorium, where several
of the new Ig Nobel Prize winners will deliver the 1999 Ig
Lectures, and where the 1999 Ig Opera will be performed again (the
opera will have had its premiere during the Ig Ceremony on
Thursday night.)
You (they?) will have to do this at your own expense, but
what a time they (you?) will have. To get in touch with us, email
ma...@chem2.harvard.edu or phone 617-491-4437.
-- Gary
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jaZZmanian Devil
Gary Williams wrote:
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> This is from mini-AIR, http://www.improbable.com/ :
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> 1999-05-16 Flaunt Your Genome
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> Was your ancestor a famous scientist or inventor? If so, would you
> like to join us on stage at this year's Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony?
<snippage>
Well, my father invented a way to kick unruly children halfway up a
flight of stairs while wearing soft moccasins without breaking any toes
(usually). Would that qualify me?
jaZZ md
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Tsalagi
wrote:
>This is from mini-AIR, http://www.improbable.com/ :
>
>1999-05-16 Flaunt Your Genome
>
>Was your ancestor a famous scientist or inventor? If so, would you
>like to join us on stage at this year's Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony?
> The theme of this year's ceremony will be "Heredity." As
>part of the festivities, we will introduce the nth-generation
>offspring of great figures in science. They (you?) will be duty-
>free authority figures, teaming up with several Nobel Laureates
>and with our presiding monarchs, the curiously beloved Swedish
>Meatball Queen and King.
>The ceremony will occur on Thursday evening, September 30 at
>Harvard's Sanders Theatre, and will be televised live on the
>Internet, as well as recorded for later broadcast on National
>Public Radio's "Science Friday" program.
>If you stick around town until Saturday, June 2, you can
>join us on stage again, at MIT's Kresge Auditorium, where several
>of the new Ig Nobel Prize winners will deliver the 1999 Ig
>Lectures, and where the 1999 Ig Opera will be performed again (the
>opera will have had its premiere during the Ig Ceremony on
>Thursday night.)
>You (they?) will have to do this at your own expense, but
>what a time they (you?) will have. To get in touch with us, email
>ma...@chem2.harvard.edu or phone 617-491-4437.
>
> -- Gary
>
I'm a bastard - does that prevent me from joining the festivities?
Tsalagi!
Gladwort the Mighty!
wrote:
Oh, my god! You killed Kenny!
[oops. cheap laff. love that show.]
--Gladwort the Mighty!
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"Alright, but if anybody asks,
you're my de-bugger! I don't want
anybody thinking we're robo-
sexuals!"
--Bender to Fry; _Futurama_
jaZZmanian Devil
> I'm a bastard - does that prevent me from joining the festivities?
> Tsalagi!
The question is... are you a "drunken bastard"?
jaZZ md
drunken bastard du' jour
Tsalagi
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>>Tsalagi!
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No, it wasn't me, but I can see how some people could have thought it
was. It was actually the cook in the swimming pool with the meat
cleaver. They only CALLED him a bastard.
Tsalagi!
Tsalagi
<js...@styn.lrun.com> wrote:
>Tsalagi wrote:
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>> I'm a bastard - does that prevent me from joining the festivities?
>> Tsalagi!
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> The question is... are you a "drunken bastard"?
>jaZZ md
>drunken bastard du' jour
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>--
I have been, in the past... is that worth something?
Tsalagi!
georg
"fever night, fever night, fever... flaunt your genome..."
/me goes and hides in the closet so you can lock me in...
-georg
David DeLaney
>Am I the only one who wants to set the topic to disco music?
"Restriction disco is still in effect."
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