After years of school room snickering and laughter, a study found that Britons with unfortunate last names like Cock, Balls, Bottoms, Cockshott, and Death declined 75% in the last 100 years.

Tragically, there are just 785 Cocks in the UK now. Cocks shrank from over 3,000 in 1881.
Balls fell to 1,299 from 2,904.
Despite the popularity of emoticons, Smellies decreased by 70 percent.
And the number of Deaths reduced to 605 from 1,133.

Speculation is rampant as to why.
On the surface you would assume people just changed names to stop the mockery. Lacking intestinal fortitude, they make the switch on their own, by marriage or left the country.

There is another explanation. Over the past 10 years Wang has experienced large growth. The number of Wangs grew astronomically by 2225%. This is in large part to genetics, female belief that size matters, and Viagra.

My theory: all the Cocks and Balls decided to become Wangs.
What's yours?

via Reuters

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