Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard Duck and other oddness

*amused* Just got back from seeing The Ig Nobel Tour - for those who don’t know, these are prizes given for discoveries or ideas that make you laugh, then think. Highly amusing. The Vatican has a prize for the fantastic idea of outsourcing prayers to India. Really. And a study into “The Effect of Country Music on Suicide”. All good stuff, I assure you.

Anyway, there were some short, sweet and silly presentations by some of the best of previous prize winners. However, the only discoveries they decided to make presentations of were of the more...ahem...rude kind. *rollseyes* So, I’ve had a whole delicious evening listening to a lesson about farting herrings, looking at photos and examples of scrotal asymmetry, a bizarre discussion on the hidden sexuality of the human yawn, watching actual videos of MRI scans of a couple having sex, and listening to the fascinating tale of The First Scientifically Recorded Case of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard Duck. Shocking really. *amused*

Not to mention a real life performance of the Atkins Diet Opera which featured two women in cute cat ears singing meow a lot, and later doing a cancan about coffee. So cute! *squeee*