Best headline for a dull science story ever
 

Hmm... did the writer do this deliberately or not?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7390109.stm

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Thanks!

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Haha, the writer was a guy. So yeah, that was deliberate.

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HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wow I almost crapped my pants :D :D

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I never had any doubt about that hypotheses.

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oook, he said tits. no, he said great tits. Perhaps it could have been worded differently so that the boobs out there didn't giggle too much. I know someone that I could ask if it is true. :p A funnier headline leads into the quiz: "Could fat on your derriere be a good thing after all?". Now that's funny but makes me feel much better about my expanding great derriere..

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Ummm, "Great tit" is the proper common name for the European equivalent of North America's "Black capped chickadee". Great tits are one of the most commonly studied birds in field based animal behaviour research, thousands of scientific papers have been written about Great tits.

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I never doubted it.

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Thanks for the explanation. I can better appreciate great tits now.

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Hmm.. I prefer our names here (in the UK). Where is the amusement value in pointing to a bush and saying 'nice black capped chickadees'.

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I don't know, sounds amusing to me. pointing at a bush, black capped... chick..... etc is almost as funny and might pass by the self proclaimed censors that flip out at even the hint of things involving the human body no matter what the context.

great tits are only funny until someone gets their eye poked out by one. I think my mum told me that, or something like that...

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Oh I know, and the Blue Tit is another famous bird in the UK. But still... the way that headline was written does suggest they were trying to make it a bit, erm, eyecatching.

It was on the top of the BBC's "most read pages" chart, which suggests the ploy worked. :-)