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I acknowledge that this is by no means a productive question, and I ask it for purposes of humor. Still, if anyone is aware of amusing / clever paper titles, it could be nice to make such a list.

-- Edit -- It may in fact be off-topic, as suggested by some comments. I am open to suggestions for more appropriate venues for this question.

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    Sorry, this is clearly off topic here. I've voted to close. – Buffy Sep 05 '18 at 14:34
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    I won't vote to close this as it is one of the most original questions seen lately and has to be better than "how do I find a PhD programme"... – Solar Mike Sep 05 '18 at 14:34
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    There are some shown here: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/12/the_best_funny_clever_or_offensive_science_paper_titles.html?via=gdpr-consent – Solar Mike Sep 05 '18 at 14:38
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    @Solar Mike true, but I don't see what a 'correct' answer to this could look like. – henning Sep 05 '18 at 15:13
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    @henning of course, there are not necessarily correct answers but still, it can be useful and interesting for other people having different answers. – optimal control Sep 05 '18 at 16:43
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    Conor McBride often uses interesting names (that I find amusing) for his paper in Computer Science: "I am not a number: I am a free variable", "Everybody's Got To Be Somewhere.", "Do be do be do", "Got Plenty o' Nuttin'", etc. Check his DBLP at https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/McBride:Conor – Clément Sep 05 '18 at 17:19
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    "I am open to suggestions for more appropriate venues for this question." Cafe. Tea-house. Lunch with your colleagues. Twitter. Reddit. Your blog. Oh, and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yT472gMsSI – Yemon Choi Sep 05 '18 at 18:44
  • Relevant meta thread: we don't have a policy about big list questions, but we don't really like them, because they are a bad fit for the structured Q&A format: https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/q/749/31917 – henning Sep 06 '18 at 06:21
  • Please, just google "funny science paper titles". There's no need to duplicate the results here. This is not a general discussion forum (there's Reddit for that). – henning Sep 06 '18 at 06:23
  • Related thread on math papers: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/44326/most-memorable-titles – Asdf Sep 07 '18 at 00:55

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Despacito: the slow evolutionary changes in plant microRNAs.

(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29448158)

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