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Originally Posted by Wavytone
Seems some chemists have no idea what they've written LOL... I think it was serious...
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I'm sure the paper was serious and it's quite likely that the authors had just as good a laugh at the title as anyone. I have a BSc with a major in chemistry and it certainly didn't go over my head! I don't know any scientists of any specialisation who wouldn't get those double meanings. The only caveat on that is if the slang is not in use in north America (as wiki suggests). I imagine we have all heard of the confusion caused by Americans not understanding that 'thong' is an item of footware in Australia, not a brief undergarment. And they name children 'Randy' with a straight face.
There is also the story about the first time a coronal mass ejection was detected on the far side of the sun. NASA was ready to run with the headline 'Scientists detect huge eruption from backside of sun' until an Australian scientist working for NASA explained how that would sound outside the US.
First year students studying biology can get a bit of a surprise from one of the technical terms they learn. They arrive at uni thinking that their lecturers are all prim and proper and that naughty words would never come from their lips. So...., in herd animals there is generally a dominant male who keeps all the females to himself. He spends his time fighting off other males and doing the other thing on his mind. However some males don't directly challenge the alpha male. Instead, they wait until he is occupied elsewhere and then sneak into the herd and mate with one of the receptive females. They are correctly termed 'sneakyf***ers'. I once overheard a young woman commenting to her friends about the lecture "OMG, I couldn't believe it when he said that."