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 :) RE: Two muppets named top scientists |