IgNoble Prize winner

What??  You _must_ know of the IgNoble prizes, given each year by the publishers of the Annals of Improbable Research, self-described as "a magazine printed on genuine, old-fashioned paper."

http://www.improb.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2005

http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/index.htm

Their material comes from actual, published, scientific papers.  As they say, "we can't make this stuff up."