[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Ig Nobels goes to Gregg Miller/prosthetic testicles for neutered dogs

  • From: Doris E <irrenhaus4@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: edwinx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 09:29:32 -0700

Edwin Hill wrote:

>because I am trying to live up to the high standards my parents set for me...I 
>have no comment on this post....lol.....I really have several...put I won't 
>dare say any of them...lol...FB
>Stormy435@xxxxxxx wrote:Smile, you're on candid camera!!!!
>
>BOSTON - Gregg Miller mortgaged his home and maxed out his credit cards to 
>mass produce his invention — prosthetic testicles for neutered dogs.
>
>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051007/ap_on_fe_st/ig_nobels
>
>What started 10 years ago with an experiment on an unwitting Rottweiler named 
>Max has turned into a thriving mail-order business. And on Thursday night 
>Miller's efforts earned him a dubious yet strangely coveted honor: the Ig 
>Nobel 
>Prize for medicine.
>
>"Considering my parents thought I was an idiot when I was a kid, this is a 
>great honor," he said. "I wish they were alive to see it."
>
>The Ig Nobels, given at Harvard University by Annals of Improbable Research 
>magazine, celebrate the humorous, creative and odd side of science.
>
>
> These prostheses are called Neuticles, and you can see them for sale in many 
> dog magazines.  Doris   (Just a bit of trivia)
>  
>
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