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Gas mask bra traps Ig Nobel prize

The aim of the awards is to honour achievements that “first make people laugh and then make them think”. The peace prize went to a Swiss research team who determined whether it is better to be hit over the head with a full or empty bottle of beer. The ceremony was organised by the magazine Annals of Improbable...

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Why Obama won the nobel peace prize

By: Bangalore

Why did Obama win the Nobel prize for peace? Top ten reasons are here.. * For chickening out of a meeting with the Dalai Lama* For bombing the moon as if bombing Iraq and Afghanistan wasn’t enough * For aiding and abetting a terrorist nation (read Pakistan) * For killing a bug on live TV * For North Korea’s nuke tests * For ...

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Obama's a Joke!

By: Just_Playin_Dumb

This morning the United States and world was thrown into a state of shock when President Barack Obama was announced the winner of the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize. However, when you think about it....what has Obama even done to merit such an award? Nothing! It was a monumental event when he was announced the first African American president in ...

about 1 month ago
Barrack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

By: hossnhousexpress

Not so many months ago, Americans took the keys to most powerful nation on the planet and threw them—hook, line and sinker—into the inexperienced hands of a neophyte politician from Illinois. What sense then, does it make now to stand around crying foul because he has now been given something as harmless as Nobel recognition?

about 1 month ago
Obama Peace Prize Disgraces Nobel Award Process

By: CitizensForHonestGovernment

As an American I am proud that President Barack Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, but as a citizen of the world I am left scratching my head. What exactly has Barack Obama done to deserve this award? Show up for work? Make a speech? Shake a hand? For this miscarriage of recognition I do not blame Barack Obama, I blame the Nobel Prize ...

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