A 1999 medical report [see below] warned about children kissing frogs or toads. The Star newspaper says says of the new movie “The Princess and the Frog” that “More than 50 children have been taken to hospital in the US suffering from salmonella poisoning after the fairytale hit screens there in December.” The medical report […]
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Can’t kiss a cardboard vampire
In the There’s-a-Rule-for-Everything Department: A CINEMA has banned fans from kissing the cardboard cutout of a film’s lead actor – because they might catch swine flu. Teenage girls had been planting kisses on, or hugging, the cutout of Brit heartthrob Robert Pattinson – who plays Edward in The Twilight Saga: New Moon – at the […]
Ig winners comment on “Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus”
We asked three Ig Nobel Prize-winning experts on sea life to comment on the soon-to-be-released horror film “Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus.” [The image below will, if you click it, show a trailer for the film]. Charles Paxton (co-winner, 2002 Ig Nobel biology prize for the study “Courtship Behaviour of Ostriches Towards Humans Under Farming […]
New movie inspired by living dead Ig Nobel Prize winner
A new movie builds on the story of 2003 Ig Nobel Peace Prize winner Lal Bihari, founder and and president of the Association of Dead People. Reviewer Utpal Borpujari explains (on the web site Dear Cinema): In eastern Uttar Pradesh, there is a Mritak Sangh – the Association of the Dead – founded by Lal […]