https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49687538

Research measuring if there is a difference in temperature between the left and right testicles is one of the winners of this year's spoof Nobel prizes. Fertility experts Roger Mieusset and Bourras Bengoudifa measured the temperature of French postmen's testicles, both naked and clothed. They found the left one is warmer, but only when a man has his clothes on.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49687538

Learn something new everyday.

 

https://www.kptv.com/news/police-dr...cle_72fdc5d2-d621-11e9-be8f-d3f1e4009d45.html
Another crash during the crash report.

 

Learn something new everyday.

I wonder if they tried swapping probes.

 

I wonder if they tried swapping probes.

Without first detaching them?

 

When I saw that, I thought it would be a perfect candidate for an IgNoble Award! Seems I was Right. "Research on postmen's testicle warmth wins Ig Nobel". For some very fun reading check out the AIRheads at the Annals of Improbable Research and their IgNoble Award yearly "Ceremony" at Harvard. https://www.improbable.com/

 

Another potential IgNobel Prize winner... https://news.yahoo.com/skin-crawling-discovery-body-farm-scientists-corpses-move-074908779.html

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49687538

Didn't they do something similar years ago in the UK? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Policeman's_Other_Ball

 

The IgNobel Prize is a quasi serious award given to actual published research papers of scientists for their obviously quirky thesis for research. Their site has videos of every? ceremony and are a real riot to watch. Professional Scientific Ph.D. EggHeads doing what they do best and that is usually ignored due to the somewhat bizarre content matter. And the people who love them for it.

 

$5M toilet stolen:

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/uk-blenheim-palace-gold-toilet-scli-gbr-intl/index.html

A toilet made entirely of 18-carat-gold has been stolen from Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England, the stately home where former prime minister Winston Churchill was born.

 

That must have been heck of a weight!
I grew up around there and used to explore the palace grounds when a kid, my grandfather got caught poaching the Dukes's pheasants.
Max.

 

$5M toilet stolen:

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/uk-blenheim-palace-gold-toilet-scli-gbr-intl/index.html

Cheap 18-carat-gold junk.

A Hong Kong jeweller has created an incredible £2.4 million pound bathroom in his shop crafted entirely from rare gems and gold. Every item in the bathroom, from the toilet brush to the toilet bowl, is made from 24-carat gold, and the floor and ceiling are both studded with gold bars, amber, ruby, emerald and sapphire.

 

https://www.iamexpat.de/expat-info/...eatened-25000-euro-fine-writing-kg-instead-kg

The baker, who runs the “100 Brote” shop in Bötzowviertel, at first thought the warning was a joke. But the Landesamt was entirely serious: handing down the threat of a 25.000 euro fine, they told Greve that the capitalised weights could be confused with the measures Kelvin and Gauss. When combined, the capital K and G could easily be mistaken for the abbreviation for a Kommanditgesellschaft business form - you know, precisely what you’d expect to see on the price list in a bakery.

 

https://www.iamexpat.de/expat-info/...eatened-25000-euro-fine-writing-kg-instead-kg

In addition to his Blackboard, seems they couldn't resist taking further account of outdated equipment.

But the blackboard was not where the inspectors’ nitpicking ended. They also took exception to a vintage set of scales, which Greve displays in his bakery for purely decorative purposes. Upon testing them, it was discovered that - unsurprisingly - they weren’t properly calibrated. The conscientious inspectors therefore duly took note of the scale’s serial number, and a few days later issued Greve with an official warning.

kv

 

LOL the scales were purely a decorative item. Bakers don't sell doughnuts by the pound. German precision and attention to detail gone awry.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/13/us/telephone-pole-philadelphia-letter-trnd/

I just wanted to say it's been my pleasure to be your corner telephone pole for many years now. It looks like I'll soon be replaced. Probably by the young pole there on the ground.
I hope to be made into furniture or at least toothpicks. Though perhaps I'll end up being burned. My smoke later filling your lungs and giving you cancers.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/13/us/telephone-pole-philadelphia-letter-trnd/

requiem for a pole? ...

 

Someone was having a really slow day...

 

Or maybe yet another jobless Hollywood scriptwriter...

 

A $12,000.00 dlls hangover:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-o...lor-party-hangover-cost-a-colorado-man-12000/

... the bags of saline solution that cost Cameron $700 at the emergency room were available at Walmart for $10.99 apiece.