Vogon Poetry Award

Older readers will recall with affection a radio programme called Hitch Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy. HHGG or H2G2 to its friends[1]. H2G2 features the Vogons, a race of intergalactic thugs who tortured their victims by reading Vogon poetry to them. TG has recently come across a strong contender for what should be an annual award along the lines of the Ignobel awards. Both the Vogons and the Ignobel awards are covered in Wikipedia, if you need to find out more.

The writer of the poem is Guy Judge, an academic in the Economics Department at Portsmouth University. Guy's blog contains a raft of interesting stuff about Econometrics and Mathematics[2].

[1] Yes, it was radio before it became a book or telly series.
[2] For those who don't find 'interesting' and 'Econometrics' an oxymoron.