Can't resist this one

The BBC News website; the home of many a silly headline and stunning sentence. I simply could not resist posting the highlights of this story.

Long story short, a guy's hands were growing larger. A GP shook his hand and diagnosed him with a pituitary tumour which was causing an excess of hormones causing growth.

Observation The First: Props to the Doctor, he's hit a home run on that one. It would have seemed in bad taste, but if I'd pulled that diagnosis out of my arse it would have been Ric Flair-style "Wooo!"s and victory slides all over the place.

Observation The Second: The paragraph:

The GP said he knew something was wrong when he shook Mr Gurrieri's large, spongy feeling hand.

is a joy.

Observation The Third: The paragraph:

Mr Gurrieri thought his hands were getting bigger because of too much DIY and working in his restaurant kitchen.

makes me wonder if I can diagnose the guy as some sort of retard on the basis of a story on the BBC News website. [Wooo!]

Observation The Fourth: If you're as picky as me, and for some reason wish to be annoyed, read this story and keep an eye out for the comma use. It's an abomination.

"New meat-eating dinos identified"

...is the headline of a story on the BBC website today. I haven't had time to read the story itself as I'm just off out to buy canned goods and bottled water so I can go into hiding from the new dinos. (dinosaurs and humans frolicking about the earth at the same time, it's like the Garden of Eden all over again!).

Wait a minute. Maybe the BBC is unable to make proper use of the English language.

[reads story]

Panic over folks, the BBC meant to say "Previously unknown meat-eating dinos identified". I guess my expectations of them were too high, given that they're a socialist institution.