Gas Mask Bra Among Ig Nobel Prize Winners

It's time for the 2009 Ig Nobel prizes, those given out by Improbable Research annually to those achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think." The award-winners are always unusual, generally humorous, but always different.

[Uh Clem]

The prospect of having a valid reason for burying my face in the bosom of a buxom young lady ('sniff, I think I smell gas') is to say the least, intriguing.

[SCREAMING EUGENE]

Why didnt I think of that instead of the athletic supporter cup gas mask? I lost millions!!!!!

[Proff Louie alternator]

Whats the big deal..? Socks have been used for multiple reasons on multiple occasions.(,;)

[Mrs-Jessica-D]

Gee I need to get one of these ha ha ha

[OFFICER SMYTH]

Bush had a great idea!

[writewingproxyco ntin]

She demonstrated it at the Ig Nobel Awards ceremony, and pointed out that the bra has two gas masks - so that the woman can give the extra gas mask/cup to save the man of her choice.

[writewingproxyco ntin]

Oops, or the woman of her choice...although the inventor was there with her husband and is apparently not bisexual.