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Insegrevious Paratereseomaniacs - 25 Aug. 2008

from A Way with Words

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[This episode first aired December 8th and 9th, 2007.]This week Martha and Grant honor winners of the Ig Nobel Prizes, those wacky awards for weird academic research and they help a caller decipher a puzzling word from a personals ad: what does 'paratereseomaniac' mean?A electronic teenager repellent? An alarm clock that runs away from you to make you'll wake up? Yep, it's the Ig Nobel Prizes, those awards for academic research that first makes you laugh and then makes you think. Martha and Grant honor this year's winners for linguistics and literature.A caller shares colorful expressions from her Texas-born...