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[arioch36]

Scot ? Scots poll only has two choices? Jones or Joness ? post I found interesting.

[johnslat]

For anyone who's interested - and who could NOT be - here's a listing of all the past Ig Nobel Award winners:

http://www.improb.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html

Regards,
John
P.S. Hey, am I ignobly attempting to hijack this thread - or what?

[zaneth]

Egads, I was several posts in before I realized I was reading apostrophe and thinking comma. Oh yeah, I'm qualified to teach.

[denise]

Those darn commas, they're a whole 'nother issue, always misused and overused, it's driving me bonkers!

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[zaneth]

That's what I was thinking. Maybe I thought commas because the apostrophe never struck me as a potentially controversial topic.

[Bindair Dundat]

[Stephen Jones]

The figure of 150 deaths a year is a reasonalbe extrapolation form Barrss's figures. According to the abstract of the report, two deaths in four years are reported from falling coconuts in a poppulation of 130,000 which makes a very conventient one death a year for a population of a quarter or million people or four deaths a year per million. That would mean a population of 35 to 40 million annualy exposed to death from falling coconuts, which does seem about right to me.

Romantic South Sea island holidays may indeed harm more than your bank account.

[zaneth]

Does Jimmy Buffet have any songs about falling coconuts?

[scot47]

Well, if we agree to abolish coconuts as well as the apostrophe, will you vote for my proposal ?

[scot47]

Well, if we agree to abolish coconuts as well as the apostrophe, will you vote for my proposal ?