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[Profpointy]

Yup, exactly that.

Which didn’t stop the international sales team of the British Standards Institution dishing out promotional teabags, which always went down well with foreign customers 😁

I seem to remember them getting an Ig-nobel prize and they turned up to accept it with comedy teapot / pipe-to-cup headgear on; good sports that they were. They'd intended to make a holiday of it and pay their own way, but apparently the management got wind of it and paid their expenses as it was seen as a valid publicity stunt for the institute.


For those unfamiliar Ig-noble prizes are awarded by the science community for comedic bits of valid research or sometimes as satire when "awarded" for outrageous political decisions. Another funny one was a prize for a group that had in all seriousness been looking into a correlation between foot sizes and penis sizes. The presiding officials (who were real Nobel laureates) had all dressed in comedy giant size clown shoes for giving the prize to the winners.