Readers of my most recent post will remember a reference to "daily emails from people in Nigeria and other exotic locales informing me that I have won a lottery, or an inheritance, or some other wonderful thing, if only I will hand over my bank account information." Well, here we are not one day later and I find these wonderful people getting the recognition they deserve! They have won the Ig Nobel prize for literature!
The Ig Nobels, given at Harvard University by Annals of Improbable Research magazine, celebrate the "humorous, creative and odd side of science" not to mention the absurd, ridiculous and downright moronic. The full citation of the award for literature reads: "The Internet entrepreneurs of Nigeria, for creating and then using e-mail to distribute a bold series of short stories, thus introducing millions of readers to a cast of rich characters -- General Sani Abacha, Mrs. Mariam Sanni Abacha, Barrister Jon A Mbeki Esq., and others -- each of whom requires just a small amount of expense money so as to obtain access to the great wealth to which they are entitled and which they would like to share with the kind person who assists them."
If you are one of the three people on the planet not to have received such email, check out the archive at the Nigerian Fraud Email Gallery.
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