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#11
Originally Posted by tabletrat View Post
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'.
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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#12
Originally Posted by TheRealBubba View Post
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.
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. :-)
 
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