The sarcastic fringehead's broad-mouthed display is reserved for fighting

It's in the science section of the paper and the article features a picture of the fish on top. I've also never heard the term "Sarcastic Fringehead" use to describe a type of personality and that's the actual name of the fish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcastic_fringehead

Croftengea• 4 years ago

Thanks, this saved me from figuring how to bypass their "free article limit".

pharrington• 4 years ago

op made a pun

blaser-waffle• 4 years ago

As in, literally a fish, called the sarcastic fringehead.

Headline is kind of a pun / clickbate.

madmax108• 4 years ago

https://archive.ph/4mUNX

emptyfile• 4 years ago

When subscription based "premium" newspapers start doling out the click bait, you know the end is near ...

unethical_ban• 4 years ago

NYT is premium, and newspapers have always had articles on sciences.

reaperducer• 4 years ago

It's not clickbait. It's called being clever, and something that newspapers have done for centuries before internet griefers came along.

systemvoltage2• 4 years ago

Idk, there is not much cleverness is finding some random obscure thing and trying to shoehorn that to propel an ideological message.

volleygman180• 4 years ago

And it's even nearer when links to those articles are posted on HN

benj111• 4 years ago

It isn't click bait.

The fish is literally called the sarcastic fridgehead.

If the title was "the goldfishes broad mouthed display is reserved for fighting" would that too be clickbait?

bombcar• 4 years ago

The title on HN changed, it was originally posted as something like "When Sarcastic Fringemouths open, beware"

swayvil• 4 years ago

This is a fabulous "Did they actually read the article?" test.

MichaelCollins• 4 years ago

I feel kinship with this fish.

dudeinjapan• 4 years ago

OMG I've found my spirit animal.

ck2• 4 years ago

ah "sarcastic" in the literal - ancient Greeks had great words for so many things

My (un)favorite is "demagogue" they knew it even then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demagogue#History_and_definiti...

The sarcastic fringehead's broad-mouthed display is reserved for fighting

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