I used to work at a company involved in breast cancer screening, and one of the skills I learned on that job was how to say the word "breast" without ever giggling. It was a small startup so we had some interesting people, including a woman who, when discussing how the machine worked, would just grab one of her own breasts through her shirt and start poking it.
At work, I have built a tool that creates Linux images on demand. Long story short, I decided to give them a human readable alias. Told my colleagues that image aliases are generated from a pool of hand-picked bird names, and did not elaborate further.
I am looking forward to see the face of the first person to discover rough-faced-shag or cock-tailed-tyrant :^)
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Reminds me of when my late FIL happily announced he had seen "some great tits in the garden earlier today"
I could not contain the giggles and was considered most immature. Everyone else was trying not to laugh as well tho.
I used to work at a company involved in breast cancer screening, and one of the skills I learned on that job was how to say the word "breast" without ever giggling. It was a small startup so we had some interesting people, including a woman who, when discussing how the machine worked, would just grab one of her own breasts through her shirt and start poking it.
Sounds like they need to hear a gritty fart
Somebody is doing something and that something is naming birds awesome names.
At work, I have built a tool that creates Linux images on demand. Long story short, I decided to give them a human readable alias. Told my colleagues that image aliases are generated from a pool of hand-picked bird names, and did not elaborate further.
I am looking forward to see the face of the first person to discover
rough-faced-shagorcock-tailed-tyrant:^)Rough-faced shag? Sounds like an average Friday, innit
Chupacabra is a bird?!
Meanwhile, bird names in Danish (translated to english):
Sun black (black bird)
Ice bird (king fisher)
Red chest
Perl owl
Night owl
Blue chest
Gray fly snapper
White chested fly snapper
It's on the list of epstein file distractions. It's way down there, but don't worry, it's on the list.
Don't forget the Pendulous Tit
I done had me a case of the hoary puffleg the other night, dagnabbit.
Ackshully… https://americanornithology.org/american-ornithological-society-will-change-the-english-names-of-bird-species-named-after-people/
I hope they change Say's Phoebe just because
it's annoying to say,no one understands when you say its name, its name easily leads to confusion.I shall name this bird.... dick-faced horny tit swallower!
bogsucker
Taxonomists: hold my Astragalus tastybeeriensis