Perth-based uber-boffins Robin Warren and Barry Marshall -- who've already won the Nobel Prize -- have become total legends by being named joint Australians of the Year. 

It wasn't joints they were studying, but.  It was guts.  See, they were the blokes who found out that peptic ulcers are actually caused by bacteria, not stress.   

But what if you had an ulcer, and the bug destroying treatment Rob and Bazza have concocted didn't work?  That'd make you a nervous wreck, wouldn't it?  Could give you a bloody ulcer, it could -- er, 'cept you've already got one ...