Ig Nobel Awards

[Mossfinn]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24061992

Penile amputations were the focus of the Public Health Prize. In 1983 a team from Thailand recommended how to manage an epidemic of women amputating their husbands, which had occurred in the 1970s.

However, they said their technique was not advised in cases where the penis had been partially eaten by a duck (after amputation). It was common to keep ducks in a traditional Thai home.

Public Health Prize: Kasian Bhanganada, Tu Chayavatana, Chumporn Pongnumkul, Anunt Tonmukayakul, Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn, Krit Komaratal, and Henry Wilde (Thailand), for the medical techniques of penile re-attachment after amputations (often by jealous wives). Techniques which they recommend, except in cases where the amputated penis had been partially eaten by a duck.

[StreetCowboy]

"Doctor, doctor, I've just lost both me hands in the threshing machine"

"Sure Paddy, and if you'd brought them with you, I could've reattached them."
"That's what I thought, with the first one"