You think whale snot and bat fellatio that figured in the spoof 2010 IgNobel is funny business? You never know, some fruity scientist may win a 1.5 million Nobel booty for it someday.

Its like getting a nod for the Oscar prize and the Razzies to boot. Andre Geim, the Russian scientist has pole-vaulted straight on to the Nobel podium, after being the winner of the dubious Ig Nobel. Seen here in a Reuters photo, Andre Geim had earlier delved in funny physics by using a magnetic toy to make, hold your breath, a frog levitate like an accomplished Yogi floating above and beyond all mundane worldly affairs.

The Nobel and Ig Nobel Laureate is the first wunderkind to take home both the awards. Geim and his Russian compatriot , Konstantin Novoselov were co-winners of the 2010 Nobel Prize for physics for research that made path-breaking headway on super-strength material and conductive carbon, this being wafer thin sheets of carbon called graphene.

Geim and Novoselov are now UK-based physicists, and the Brits are scrambling for ownership rights. Novoselov said the Nobel emerged like a phoenix from the trash after he took out sheets of graphene from the bin on which sticky tape could not adhere too and just peeled off. So don’t just take out the trash, scavenge through it for inspiration and that Eureka moment that will flummox the trash man, with you in the buff or in morning pyjama-clad glory.

Freshly minted Nobel Laureate Andre Geim need not boast of his Ig Nobel, for making a frog levitate cannot out-do or better the collection of whale snot using high-tech remote-control helicopters, and delving into kinky bats, that other Ig Nobel luminaries can brag of.