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It's beers all round for the BBC this morning who've outregged El Reg leader writers with this deliciously suggestive offering:

BBC headline: Great tits cope well with warming

Of course, ornithology is a fertile area for schoolboy innuendo. Readers may recall the flap down at the RSPB's website where moderators clamped down on use of the word "cock" after sniggering twitchers made merry with the word. ®

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Thanks to Paul Gomme for the tip-off.

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BBC Devon...

...had one which read "Mass debate over mobile phone masts". Sadly it didn't stay there long.

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Another BBC headline...

...that made me laugh - in reference to two government ministers:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7358335.stm

AFAIK the headlines used on the website are the same as the ones used on Ceefax so perhaps there's a character limit that occasionally throws these up by accident... but personally I suspect someone at the BBC is trying to sneak silly headlines past the editor.

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Not quite up to the standard...

... of "Dr Fuchs off to Antarctica", but still pretty good.

Pasris, because, well, obvious really.

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