Soft bottom trawling
Editing technical documents occasionally (very occasionally) produces some chuckles, especially if you have a sense of humour in arrested development:
Instrumentation for bottom characterization
Grabs and cores provide quantitative samples, but are not suitable for patchy distributed fauna of low abundance. Cameras are the only sampling method used on rough bottoms.
Section 3 promises an exposure of
Otter trawling on hard bottom habitats with erect structures
Can’t wait for the search engines to pick up on that one.
May 27th, 2005 at 10:01 am
My god - it sounds like those random collections of words that people use to fill text space before the copy’s written. And that’s a mental image of otters I didn’t want.
May 29th, 2005 at 8:55 am
Fnar fnar fnar! I used to do medical editing and that, ahem, threw up some good funnies. ‘Anti-natal classes’ was one of my favourites, as was ‘the left hemisphere of the brian’ - for some reason that particular transposition made me laugh every time.
May 31st, 2005 at 12:57 am
Stopping by to say hello, it has been much too long. Shame on me.
Very amusing post I actually thought while reading it that you will get very interesting Google searches on this post. It is nice to know that great minds and all that…