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   From: johnson@spam.troll   
      
   Am I the only person alive who never found the muppets even slightly   
   amusing?   
   I just never understood the appeal of them, the humor seems so bland.  I   
   actually find them annoying, especially miss piggy.  When she appears on the   
   emmys or something like that I find I have to change the station.   
      
   They should have retired those things long ago.   
      
      
      
   "Stan Jensen"  wrote in message   
   news:mvjnj0homu52lnhcte073c7v42gjijc02c@4ax.com...   
   > Two muppets named top scientists   
   > Sunday, September 5, 2004 Posted: 7:53 PM EDT (2353 GMT)   
   >   
   >   
   > EXETER, England (Reuters) -- Muppets Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and his assistant   
   > Beaker defeated Dr. Strangelove, Dana Scully of "X Files" fame and Star   
   > Trek's Mr. Spock to be voted Britain's favorite screen scientists on   
   > Monday.   
   >   
   > They beat their closest rival by a margin of 2 to 1 and won 33 percent of   
   > the 43,000 votes cast in an Internet poll.   
   >   
   > Spock came in a distance second with 15 percent followed by The Doctor,   
   > from Dr Who, who garnered 13 percent. Scully, the only woman in the poll,   
   > came in sixth.   
   >   
   > "They are accessible, humorous and occasionally blow each other up," said   
   > Roland Jackson, of the British Association for the Advancement of Science   
   > (BA).   
   >   
   > The balding, white-coated Honeydew and flame-haired, bulging-eyed Beaker   
   > created an array of crazy gadgets on the popular television show.   
   >   
   > "They're the kind of scientists you would like to be but never quite dared   
   > to," said Alan Slater, a scientist at the University of Exeter in   
   > southwestern England.   
   >   
   > The poll, sponsored by the BA and the BBC cult television website gave the   
   > public five weeks to choose their favorite scientist from a shortlist of   
   10   
   > that included Dr. Evil from the film "Austin Powers," Dr. Frankenstein,   
   > Frank N. Furter, of the "Rocky Horror Show Picture Show," Dr. Emmett   
   Brown,   
   > of the film "Back to the Future" and Q of James Bond fame.   
   >   
   > Results of the poll were announced at the start of the week-long BA   
   science   
   > conference here.   
   >   
   >   
      
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