One of these things is not like the others...

[wolven7]

Ig Nobel Prizes are announced, and one of them doesn't seem to belong.

Maybe it's just me, but research showing that the amount of food offered a person increases how much they actually consume seems rather fucking important.

I was thinking about this, just an hour ago, watching a Pizza Hut commercial: their new motto is "Get More Full."

Yes. Eat more fucking disgusting greasy useless chemical compositions and fill up so as you won't eat real food and, eventually, you'll die.

Meals and Treats, people. Meals and treats.

Comments

Vanilla

[karishi.livejournal.com]

The guy who turned cow dung into synthetic vanilla impressed me most, from a technical standpoint. I'll concede that the bottomless bowl may be more...sociologically pertinent.

Re: Vanilla

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yeah, technically, that poo thing's freaking amazing.

[razelore.livejournal.com]

A measure of wheat for a denarii, and three measures of barley for a denarii, harm not the oil and the wine...

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Perfect characterisation, from the Gaiman/Pratchett team.

[razelore.livejournal.com]

You realize that this is the main reason I quit being a funeral director.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Nope, I had no idea, but it makes a lot of sense.

[razelore.livejournal.com]

I'm simply not big enough to haul increasingly larger people down flights of stairs.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Not without some weight training.

[razelore.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure it was gonna take steroids and some major skeletal reconstruction.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yeowch.

[razelore.livejournal.com]

Like I said, I'm just not a big guy.