Frozen doo doo knives don't work

[ChattanoogaChop]

I'm no scientist, but I think I could've told them before they went through the trouble

Experimental replication shows knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work

The ethnographic account of an Inuit man manufacturing a knife from his own frozen feces to butcher and disarticulate a dog has permeated both the aca…

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[DocJD]

Yeah , really difficult to perform a good quality heat treatment !

 

[catspa]

Not to mention the difficulty of Rockwell hardness testing ( likely on the P scale). Pity the poor bastard whose job it was to clean the grinder.

Parker

 

[KenHash]

Definitely a candidate for the Ig Noble Award.

Ig Nobel Prize Winners 2018 - Enago Academy

The 2018 Ig Nobel Prize Winners had a long list of some really ridiculous and absurd research studies that had be conducted. Let us have a look at the winners in each category and get some insights on their research topics.

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[Oklahoma Outlaw]

Lab Assistant: This knife cuts like $hit.

Scientist: That’s because it is $hit.

 

[gazz98]

Did they use a flat, convex, or hollow grind on the poo poo blades?

PS - I think we found Larrin s next project!

PSS - This is a crappy topic. (Someone had to say it..)

 

[abcdef]

Think of all the jobs this type of research supports.

 

[abcdef]

Hmmmm............

 

[sgt1372]

Great story . . . even if it was pure dog sh*t. LOL!

 

[BD_01]

Well, a government grant probably funded the reseaech.

Still better than some of the other sh** our tax dollars are spent on....

 

[herisson]

I thought as much... Some scholars have way too much time (and public money) on their hands. But the whole thing probably is a hoax / horseshit / bullcrap story.

 

[EngrSorenson]

In his book, Shadows in the Sun, Davis (1998: 20) recounts what is now arguably one of the most popular ethnographic accounts of all time:

It first appeared in Davis’ book, “stories I heard while drinking beer in Skagway, AL, and other funny things”.