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Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Wonky is the word
I dunno about what's up with Nature's headline selections.

Lets stop and have a talk about Nature and what is up with these freaking British people. First of all, why did it take them years to adopt citation tracking functions for their journal. Second of all, why do they insist on using the letter "s" when a "z" or "zed" as those freaks call it, would be more appropriate. Finally, how do they get away with titling a news story, "Wonky breasts signal cancer risk."

Did someone get confused and think they were writing for the Weekly World News? I don't want to be too hard on them, in the end I find it mostly funny. But "wonky?" I mean, really. That's a hell of an adjective to use on breasts, like women don't have enough to be self-conscious about, you've now got millions of women looking at their breasts and worrying about wonkiness. Finally, has wonkette been informed?

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