I never heard of such a thing until now
My boys love to tease each other. They can be merciless sometimes looking for creative ways to make fun of each other. Of couse this is all done in fun. They are so darn competitive in every area of life this ribbing is no exception as they try to find ways to outdo the other.
Recently the middle son went on a mission to New Mexico for the AF to work on a project. Since my eldest wasn't quite sure what his younger brother was doing exactly he has now speculated on the real reason for this secret mission to the desert.
The Gay Bomb. Yes, that must be it. So all this talk of Brian working on this top secret project was nothing more than a Gay Bomb? Of course Bobby is having a heyday with this new revelation most likely telling everyone Brian's secret mission is.....well, not quite so secret anymore. Of course....it's not true but the alternative is not quite so funny so this will have to do.
Awards were handed out by Science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research at a presentation Thursday night at Harvard University. These awards are meant to both poke fun at popular culture and spark debate.
The Ig Nobel Prizes, in their 17th year, were handed to the winners by genuine Nobel laureates Craig Mello (medicine 2006), Dudley Herschbach (chemistry 1986), Robert Laughlin (physics 1998), William Lipscomb (chemistry 1976) and Sheldon Glashow (physics 1979).
You are going to laugh at this. But the winners this year were:
Chemistry: Mayu Yamamoto of the International Medical Center of Japan, for developing a way to extract vanillin, or vanilla fragrance and flavoring, from cow dung.
Linguistics: A University of Barcelona team for a study showing rats sometimes fail to distinguish between a person speaking Japanese backward and a person speaking Dutch backward.
Peace Prize: The Air Force Wright Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, for instigating research and development of a chemical weapon, the "gay bomb," that "will make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other."
Economics: Kuo Cheng Hsieh, of Taichung, Taiwan, for patenting a device in 2001 that catches bank robbers by dropping a net over them.
Medicine: Brain Witcombe, of Gloucestershire Royal NHS Foundation Trust, and sword swallower Dan Meyer, of Antioch, Tenn., for their insightful work on the health consequences of swallowing a sword.
Physics: A U.S.-Chilean team that ironed out the problem of how sheets become wrinkled.
Biology: Johanna van Bronswijk of the Netherlands for carrying out a creepy-crawly census of all of the mites, insects, spiders, ferns and fungi that share our beds.
Literature: Glenda Browne of Blue Mountains, Australia, for her study of "the," and how it can flummox those trying to put things into alphabetical order.
Nutrition: Brian Wansink of Cornell University for investigating the limits of human appetite by feeding volunteers a self-refilling, "bottomless" bowl of soup.
Aviation: A National University of Quilmes, Argentina, team for discovering that impotency drugs can help hamsters recover from jet lag.
So of course Bobby being the scientist he is went on to explain how this gay bomb could actually work. It alters the brain, he says, with the chemicals used. Some could still be resistent to it's power, but those predispositioned could succumb easily to the chemicals used against them. It's basically environment combined with genetics that could actually make this work.
I was just wondering what in the world would be the purpose of the gay bomb exactly? Homosexual soldiers aren't as agressive as heteros? Fighting for affection instead of fighting the enemy? Focus? Why does it come under the heading Peace? Make love not war?
ha! I should ask Brian. Maybe he'd know!
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