Your favorite Ig Nobel recipient?

[jmowreader]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners

I'm going to vote for the 1994 Medicine Prize winners, of which there were two:

Patient X, who attempted to use electroshock therapy to treat a rattlesnake bite - he attached automotive spark plug wires to his lip and revved the car engine to 3000 rpm for five minutes.

and

Doctors Richard C. Dart of the Rocky Mountain Poison Center and Richard A Gustafson of the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, who co-wrote the paper "Failure of Electric Shock Treatment for Rattlesnake Envenomation."

[UTUSN]

1. Ya took me by surprise - haha!! (For reason clear in recent news)

[ProudLib72]

2. I'm going with

Medicine – F. Kanda, E. Yagi, M. Fukuda, K. Nakajima, T. Ohta, and O. Nakata of the Shiseido Research Center in Yokohama, for their pioneering research study "Elucidation of Chemical Compounds Responsible for Foot Malodour," especially for their conclusion that people who think they have foot odor do, and those who don't, don't.

[Croney]

3. That happens to be the year I was there,

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as a member of Prof. Margaret Geller's delegation:

Each lecture is on a topic of the speaker's own choosing -- and is limited to 30 seconds or less. The time limit is strictly enforced by a professional soccer referee. This year's Heisenberg Lecturers include: Nobel Laureates Sheldon Glashow, William Lipscomb, Dudley Herschbach, and Richard Roberts; astronomer Margaret Geller, the discoverer of the "Great Wall" of galaxies; and Marvin Minsky, who founded the field of artificial intelligence.

I was on her administrative staff. We dressed as clowns.

[Control-Z]

4. I'm intrigued!

K&R&Bookmarked - must come back to read more!

[Stargazer09]

5. Flamingos

I’m going with the Art award for 1996:

Art – Presented to Don Featherstone of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, for his ornamentally evolutionary invention, the plastic pink flamingo. Featherstone was the first Ig Nobel Prize winner to appear in person at the awards ceremony to accept the award.

Not just because I think plastic flamingos are hilarious, but because the winner of the award appeared in person to accept it.