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Title: Bra that doubles as a gas mask and won the Ig Nobel Prize is now on sale
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Nerve.com
URL Source: http://www.nerve.com/scanner/2010/0 ... as-mask-won-the-ig-nobel-prize
Published: Sep 27, 2010
Author: Brian Fairbanks
Post Date: 2012-01-08 21:44:29 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 546
Comments: 15
The Emergency Bra, a brassiere that can turn into two life-saving gas masks for victims of biological warfare won the 2009 Ig Nobel Public Health Prize. It just went on sale via this website, which describes the invention as "an "Emergency Bra, Nursing Bra, Two Face Masks [and] Strapless bra." The bra, available in sizes 32B to 40C, came as a result of Chernobyl. Seriously. [Dr. Elena] Bodnar studied the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 and found that, as Fox News reports, "if people had had cheap, readily available gas masks in the first hours after the disaster ... they may have avoided breathing in Iodine-131, which causes radiation." She also envisions it being useful in terrorist attacks. "You have to be prepared all the time, at any place, at any moment, and practically every woman wears a bra," she said. [Salon] 
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
Ab must have an emergency bra to go with her warrior toe shoes! : )
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11 "Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
There was also a banana-hammock version for men, but nobody would volunteer to test crotch-to-face deployment mode....
#2. To: abraxas (#1)
-Alex Kurtagic
#3. To: X-15 (#2)
LOL!! Yer killin' me X!!
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
"Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
#4. To: abraxas (#3)
I'm nursing a nasty cold here and attempting to laugh gets me a mule-kick to my chest :-o It'll be tomorrow before I'm back to normal.
-Alex Kurtagic
#5. To: abraxas (#1)
But are you willing to share? Ab must have an emergency bra to go with her warrior toe shoes! : )
#6. To: Original_Intent (#5)
Of course.....are you offering to spring for one cup of my bra? lol Should we order in red or black? Maybe they have camo... But are you willing to share?
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
"Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
#7. To: X-15 (#4)
Put Vicks vapor rub on your FEET tonight with some socks and sleep on it. : )
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
"Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
#8. To: X-15 (#0)
Brillant.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" 
#9. To: X-15 (#0) (Edited)
so what happens if your cup size is overly small or overly large? Never mind, leaves me out I see. The bra, available in sizes 32B to 40C,
As Gary Lloyd said, "When the government’s boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence."
#10. To: X-15, Original_Intent, abraxas (#0)
Interesting idea, but a true gas mask has to be airtight. I doubt bra material would be airtight enough to seal out any real nasty chemical or biological weapon. It'd be fun to share it with a well endowed friend though. For the lesser endowed, seems like it might not work as well.
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#11. To: farmfriend (#9)
Was thinking the same thing...
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#12. To: FormerLurker (#11)
yeah my bra would cover the whole face. Was thinking the same thing...
As Gary Lloyd said, "When the government’s boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence."
#13. To: farmfriend (#12)
LOL, well maybe you could handle a small crowd in yours... :)
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#14. To: farmfriend (#12)
You could do triage in an emergency where two small groups could muddle into each cup. : ) yeah my bra would cover the whole face.
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
"Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
#15. To: abraxas, FormerLurker (#14)
LOL And to think I was a B cup my Senior year. You could do triage in an emergency where two small groups could muddle into each cup. : )
As Gary Lloyd said, "When the government’s boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence."
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