Where Can I Find Papers with Funny Abstracts?

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I'm trying to look for papers with funny abstracts (in particular, there is one I saw a while ago, I believe it was physics, that had an abstract that only said no which I am trying to find, but I would love to see other funny one as well.)
 
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Chemistry journals often publish graphical abstracts accompanying the actual text of the abstract. Sometimes these images have unintended meanings:

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ic0352250
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl802977m

This one suffers from an unfortunate choice of acronym for copper nanotubes (see the image):

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2007/CC/b614147a
 
Ygggdrasil said:
Chemistry journals often publish graphical abstracts accompanying the actual text of the abstract. Sometimes these images have unintended meanings:

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ic0352250
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl802977m

This one suffers from an unfortunate choice of acronym for copper nanotubes (see the image):

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2007/CC/b614147a

Those were a big hit with all my fellow postdocs.
 
PoyDuo said:
I'm trying to look for papers with funny abstracts (in particular, there is one I saw a while ago, I believe it was physics, that had an abstract that only said no which I am trying to find, but I would love to see other funny one as well.)

are you thinking of this thread?
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=540623