(03 Jan 2015, 10:09 pm)MrFozz wrote I think I may have found what is quite possibly the funniest headline I ever seen, in an article about New Zealand Badminton...
As most will know, they name there national teams black/white/ferns...
The Badminton people wanted to call themselves The Black Cocks, after shuttlecocks, and did a little looking about and found this
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/15/...kerfuffle/
The headline on the website was
NZ finds Black Cocks hard to swallow, Chinese not keen either
Wow, some amusing lines in the article too.
That's as may be, but the International Badminton Federation (IBF) has decided not to take the Black Cocks lying down.
Ah yes, the sticky "we'd rather not entertain Black Cocks in the People's Republic of China" problem.