Sharing the Nobel Prize for Mathematics this year, Professor Rudolph Twirly demonstrates how to make counting to ten "fun and exciting."

Thank's Will.
(could almost be a caption for the new contest too)

Lick your Math anxiety.

John's "spirit fingers" had a tendency to upset most small children, unexpecting adults, most house pets and barnyard animals.

Mr. Mainstone, a huge Sesame Street fan as a child, does his best impression of The Count.

"Ten pointy fingers, BLAH AH aahhh!"

In a story that's turning the entire science world and global media upside down, this image is the last known picture relayed by the Voyager II spacecraft before contact was completely lost.

"I have Ten women in the back room that will testify that Gene Simmons Can't compare to me!"

Mr. Mainstone doing his combination Gene Simons and Richard Simons impersonation...

Despite his background in science, John Mainstone repeatedly shocks and puzzles the people he meets by licking all his fingers before shaking hands.

While some people found a distate for John's pantomime work, no one could argue that "window licker in a colapsing box" was his creation.

Mr. John Mainstone, is shown here graphically explaining the undecimal system in his version for "G" audiences, but in the "R" rated version he relies on another appendenge to signify the eleventh digit.

Fifty years later, Nigel is still obsessing over his custom amp: "Why stop at ten, like, ya know? With me new dial, I can crank it up one more notch. Then I'd have to use me tongue to count to eleven, and people'd say, like, 'Hey man, they're like Kiss' and stuff, like, you know?"

Sen. Minority Leader Harry Reid's transformation from human to moonbat form is finally caught on film. Sen. Reid's condition is said to be traceable to a bite from Howard Dean at last year's Democrat National Convention.

Hoodlumman, that was great!

"No, officer, as you can see, I am not infected with the Asian Bird Flu."

"Nobel Prize winner John Mainstone follows in the footsteps of fellow Prize winner Harold Pinter."

Unable to recover the fame he found in the early '80's as lovable sitcom dad "Phillip Drummond", actor Conrad Bain now ekes out a living as a John Mainstone impersonator.

In a related story, Bain was voted "Most Successful Former Cast Member" in a landslide at a recent Diff'rent Strokes reunion.

Brundlefly is getting... BETTER!

Dr. Mainstone gets a leg up on the competition for next year's Nobel Blame Bush, uh, I mean, Peace Prize.

Don't Plame him! He is just kidding...(Where is Karl Rove when a guy needs someone to blame) Or is it Plame???

This Austrlian's innovative way of counting to eleven really impressed the Nobel prize committee. Harold Pinter's literary talents also impressed the committee.

Ted Kennedy: "NO! I said I wanted to get liquored up!"

John Mainstone of the University of Queensland, Australia poses before the 2005 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mainstone won the Mathematics award for figuring out how to count past ten without taking his shoes off.

Base 11

(I know, I know the winners have already been announced.)