Ig-Nobel award.... Nutty Winner(my title)

AP/yahoo ^

[Vaquero]

The Winner Is... Fake Dog Testicle Creator By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 39 minutes ago

BOSTON - Gregg Miller mortgaged his home and maxed out his credit cards to mass produce his invention — prosthetic testicles for neutered dogs.

What started 10 years ago with an experiment on an unwitting Rottweiler named Max has turned into a thriving mail-order business. And on Thursday night Miller's efforts earned him a dubious yet strangely coveted honor: the Ig Nobel Prize for medicine.

"Considering my parents thought I was an idiot when I was a kid, this is a great honor," he said. "I wish they were alive to see it."

The Ig Nobels, given at Harvard University by Annals of Improbable Research magazine, celebrate the humorous, creative and odd side of science.

Miller has sold more than 150

[mewzilla]

LOL. There's even a website: www.neuticles.com.

I wonder if these would work for the Pubbies in Congress...?

[TWohlford]

I watched the video (available online) of last year's presentation.

Funny, FUNNY stuff.

Hopefully Miss Sweety Poo is still moderating the awards speeches.

[Vaquero]

I wonder if these would work for the Pubbies in Congress...? yeah they already have em....all show no go.

[N. Theknow]

They last forever, cause they can really take a licking.

[mewzilla]

yeah they already have em....all show no go.

Hmmmm, anyone working on spine implants?

[kingu]

Hmmmm, anyone working on spine implants?

Transplantation is underway as we speak.. Those congresscritters with backbone left are having it removed and replaced with a new rubber form that is 1000 times more flexible and unable to stand up to the wackiest of theories.

[randog]

He's a little late to the gate:

[Psycho_Bunny]

Gregg Miller mortgaged his home and maxed out his credit cards to mass produce his invention — prosthetic testicles for neutered dogs.

Seriously, if you stop and think about this sentence you can only come to one conclusion:  Gregg has an unhealthy mental problem which needs to be treated, not praised with a tongue-in-cheek award.

[TNCMAXQ]

Does anyone think the dogs REALLY care?! ;-) And if any human beings really care, I have to wonder, why are they looking down there anyway??

[tfecw]

LOL!

This article was priceless...Someone needs to let the Official Friday silliness folks know about this one..


my favorite was the last part:

• PHYSICS: Since 1927, researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia have been tracking a glob of congealed black tar as it drips through a funnel — at a rate of one drop every nine years.

• PEACE: Two researchers at Newcastle University in England monitored the brain activity of locusts as they watched clips from the movie "Star Wars."

• CHEMISTRY: An experiment at the University of Minnesota was designed to prove whether people can swim faster or slower in syrup than in water.

[tfecw]

Miller has sold more than 150,000 of his Neuticles, more than doubling his $500,000 investment. The silicone implants come in different sizes, shapes, weights and degrees of firmness.

Nothing crazy about doubling your investment. Folks will do anything for their pets. Especially folks in CA. Pet shrinks, pet hotels, now they can get even pet balls. I would say the people buying this stuff are a tad loopy, not the guy selling it.

[Disambiguator]

prosthetic testicles for neutered dogs

Reminds me of a Steven Wright joke.