Ig Nobel prize or Herrings and farting sounds.

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Wonder what I am talking about? So does my wife, but that is not important right now.

Yes it is the Ig Nobel Prize awards for 2004. Top honours went to Wilson, B, Batty R & Dill in biology for Herring and their mysterious farting sounds

Herring are well known to most. Their economic importance to the fishing communities of the temperate northern Hemispheres is in no doubt and as a result much of their biology has been well documented. We know they have excellent hearing but little about what they actually use it for..........

Real link.

See the rest of the winners here.

Oh and check out the literature winners, Nudist history you can see. There is even something about the "five second rule."

Vince