Well, Duh.

I think I need a new department. The department of dumb headlines. From the AP:

Farmers use bull semen to inseminate cows

One presumes this is a revelation to the headline writer who likely thought poultry was involved somehow.

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  By crosspatch, Wednesday, 19 July , 2006 @ 8:59 pm

  They tried fluffy bunny semen first because it seems to work so well on fluffy bunnies but it didn’t work on cows. Then they tried guppy semen but that was too hard to collect. So they went around looking for a male cow but couldn’t find one and a bull was the closest creature they could find so they had to settle.

  The writer was probably thinking the obvious solution was ducky semen but if you think guppy semen is hard to collect, you should try getting ducky semen. Feathers get in everything!

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  By Gaius, Wednesday, 19 July , 2006 @ 9:10 pm

  Is that the all-time dumbest headline ever or what?

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  By TC@LeatherPenguin, Thursday, 20 July , 2006 @ 1:41 am

  “Farmer” realized his own stuff didn’t cut the snuff.

  DARWIN RULEZ!

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  By TC@LeatherPenguin, Thursday, 20 July , 2006 @ 9:43 am

  Gaius, if you start such a department, realize it will take up all of your online time, because I’ve found that the majority of headline writers never actually read the articles, so stuff like you listed above leaks into the news stream damn near hourly.

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  By Gaius, Thursday, 20 July , 2006 @ 9:43 am

  Good point.

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