IconoclasT wrote:
] WOO HOO!! Way to Go Beaker & Dr. Honeydew!
]
] 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.

w00t!! go beaker!! go dr honeydew :)