News travels slowly, sometimes. In 2003 the Ig Nobel Prize in economics was awarded jointly to Karl Schwärzler and the nation of Liechtenstein, for making it possible to rent the entire country for corporate conventions, weddings, bar mitzvahs, and other gatherings. Today, April 16, 2011, The Guardian (and other news organizations), aided by a press […]
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S. Dogg/Liechtenstein/Ig Nobel kerfuffle
New reports (in The Mirror and elsewhere) say that musician Snoop Dogg has tried and failed to rent the country of Liechtenstein, which Mr. Dogg wished to use as the setting for a music video. There’s a history to this. Yes, Mr. Dogg would be the first person to actually rent the nation — but Liechtenstein […]