• Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    30 days ago

    its that joke about there being 4 kinds of names for birds:

    • God’s Specialest Little Boy
    • Horncocked Boobtit
    • Blue Bird With White Head
    • Jeremy’s Fingernail
    • Hadriscus@jlai.lu
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      29 days ago

      I’m not good with ornithology. Is the fourth one meant to signifiy there’s a tendency in ornithology to name a bird after your own name and a body part ?

      • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        29 days ago

        not a body part specifically (that’s just what the original meme im shamelessly and badly stealing used), but yea there is a tendency to name birds So-and-so’s Something