What does it take to win an Ig Nobel Prize? There is but a single criterion: Do something that first makes people LAUGH, and the makes them THINK (WHAT people think is entirely up to them....An Ig Nobel-winning achievement can be good or bad, important of trivial, valuabel or worthless. Or all of those. It just has to make people laugh, and then make them think.
                     --Marc Abrahams, found of the Ig Nobel Awards